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Richard Blumenthal: “The top leadership of ICE actually encouraged [and] trained…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Detained by ICE: US Citizen Shares His Story

Published | Video Starts at 08:09

You couldn't have known it at the time, but there actually is a reason for that misconduct. As we have discovered talking to a whistleblower and we have seen in documents, The top leadership of ICE actually encouraged [and] trained agents of ICE and the Customs Border Patrol to violate the Fourth Amendment. and to engage in the kind of lawlessness that impacted you. This kind of lawlessness is no accident. It's intentional and institutional. But you had no idea about that fact at the time, did you? (08:09–08:23)

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Asserts that ICE leadership trained agents to violate the Fourth Amendment.

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