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Dick Durbin: “ICE agents in Chicago pursued people without legal…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Senator Durbin Delivers Remarks on FISA Section 702 Reform

Published | Video Starts at 00:34

We had these people who were kind of in uniform, but not really wearing masks, carrying guns. And they were pursuing, quote, the worst of the worst. They were looking for rapists, murderers, terrorists, the criminally insane, … ICE agents in Chicago pursued people without legal immigration status, frightening the community. … a way that I'd never seen before. People in parts of Chicago who had lived there peacefully, quietly, without any problem for years reached the point where they were afraid to go to the grocery store. (00:34–00:42)

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Asserts that ICE agents targeted undocumented immigrants in Chicago, causing fear in the community.

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