Veronica Escobar: “In my own district, a local small business owner, an ICE…”

“And in the interviews that he gave to local Virginia press, he identified himself as a Trump supporter and a Trump voter and was shocked that he, a US Citizen, had been racially profiled as part of this mass deportation effort. In my own district, a local small business owner, an ICE agent, went in and...question[ed] the citizenship of people in his place of business. And so the indiscriminate nature of many of these enforcement efforts as part of the mass deportation, it's, this is about everybody. It's not just about mixed status families.” (05:19–05:32)

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