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Tina Smith: “What we see over and over again from these ICE agents is…”

Featuring: Tina Smith, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Minnesota

Sen. Tina Smith at ICE shooting scene in Minneapolis

Published January 9, 2026 | Video Starts at 03:13

I mean, professional law enforcement is trained to de escalate dangerous situations. Conflict happens, and the goal is to de escalate that conflict. Yet What we see over and over again from these ICE agents is this sort of amping it up and escalating even more. And we can see how dangerous that is. And that would be a great thing for Congress to do is to do some oversight into what exactly is going on there with training. (03:13–03:22)

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Asserts that ICE agents escalate situations rather than de-escalate them.

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