And funding it. Let me say it again. Funding it only fuels our own destruction and our human suffering. For over a year, Our communities have witnessed abductions, kidnappings, the unlawful detention of children, the militarization of our cities, the murder of neighbors, the persecution of dissent, and the rise of fascism in our nation, all facilitated by the Department of Homeland Security. Yet there are those in Congress who would still, still, after all that, expand DHS budget and ICE capacity to keep enacting Trump's mass deportation agenda and further hurt our communities. (00:32–00:50)
CLAIM
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