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Rashida Tlaib: “This is not an agency, Mr. Speaker, that can be reformed.”

Featuring: Rashida Tlaib, Democratic | U.S. House Michigan, District 12

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'How Many More Of Our Neighbors Have To Be Executed?': Rashida Tlaib Calls For ICE To Be Abolished

Published | Video Starts at 01:45

Kristi Noem has violated the United States Constitution, eroded due process, and again violated federal processes and laws by preventing members of Congress already from conducting oversight in their facilities. Shame on them. This is not an agency, Mr. Speaker, that can be reformed. You can impeach the secretary and she needs to be impeached, but this is an agency that was created to do what it's doing now. It is built on violence and racism. (01:45–01:49)

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Asserts that the agency [ICE] cannot be reformed.

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