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Hillary Scholten: “We would be just completely derelict in our duties as the…”

Featuring: Hillary Scholten, Democratic | U.S. House Michigan, District 3

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April FL-25 Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 52:22

There's drug trafficking, there's human trafficking. Right. But to turn this police force on not only legal law abiding immigrants, but on United States States citizens. 2 United States citizens are dead. We would be just completely derelict in our duties as the branch of government that has oversight over the federal government, over ICE if we allowed this to continue. and continue to give a blank check to these illegal activities. I know even in a district like mine, my taxpayers do not want their hard earned dollars going to fund a police force like this. (52:22–52:38)

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Asserts that it would be a failure of duty for the government to allow current ICE practices to continue without oversight.

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