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Raphael Warnock: “They took ICE and they transformed it into a completely…”

Featuring: Raphael Warnock, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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American Conversations: Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock

Published | Video Starts at 24:48

Oh, absolutely. Listen, we are in a moment that, you know, it. It is jarring to the conscience of anybody paying attention. They took ICE and they transformed it into a completely unaccountable paramilitary organization that is serving as a force of occupation on American streets. Think about this. Minneapolis is a city where the police department was 600 people in the police department. And they put over 3,000 federal agents from ICE and Border Patrol on the streets of that city. (24:48–25:05)

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Asserts that ICE was transformed into an unaccountable paramilitary organization acting as an occupying force.

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