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Chris Murphy: “Republicans were so intent on giving ICE a blank check on…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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ICE keeps killing people - dozens are dead.

Published | Video Starts at 00:49

Democrats said, if you want our votes for ICE's budget, then there has to be accountability. There have to be reforms. We can't let this continue. But Republicans were so intent on giving ICE a blank check on effectively endorsing ICE's brutality that they rejected every single one of our reforms. And they used a special process in the Senate to pass a huge increase in ICE's budget with only Republican votes. And by the way, they weren't content to double or triple ice's budget. (00:49–01:02)

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