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. They quadrupled ice's budget. And so ice, of course, with all this new money, they are hiring people who are incapable of doing the job, who aren't trained. (01:01–01:11)
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Asserts that Republicans used a special Senate process to increase ICE's budget without Democratic support.
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