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Edward Markey: “Immigrants are following the rules and showing up to…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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I introduced the SHIELD Act: to help ensure immigrants can obtain legal counsel

Published | Video Starts at 00:10

The Trump administration is criminalizing legal immigration, demonizing immigrants, making it harder for them and their families to navigate a broken system. Immigrants are following the rules and showing up to immigration court, but when they walk out of those hearings, they risk walking into a trap set by the Trump administration. ICE is there waiting to arrest them and fast track their deportation. That is unfair, and it's just plain wrong. (00:10–00:23)

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Asserts that immigrants risk arrest by ICE after attending immigration court hearings.

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