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Edward Markey: “The Trump administration wants to give ICE agents more work…”

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

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The moment these protections lapse, TPS holders who have been here legally for years, working, paying taxes, raising families, will stare down the looming threat of detention and deportation. That's what The Trump administration wants to give ICE agents more work to do on our streets, to give its private army the authority to arrest a million more people to meet racist, cruel quotas. And no one should have to live through that constant fear of a sudden knock on the door or the panic of a random traffic stop. (07:52–08:05)

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Asserts that the Trump administration aims to increase ICE arrests to meet quotas.

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