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Yassamin Ansari: “ICE is a rogue agency with now so many agents and officers…”

Featuring: Yassamin Ansari, Democratic | U.S. House Arizona, District 3

Rep. Ansari on CNN's The Brief with Jim Sciutto

Published September 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:13

If you happen to be speaking Spanish with your family member or if you look like I do, just, you know, daughter of immigrants, you know, no, not blonde hair, blue eyed. So, yes, absolutely. And ICE is a rogue agency with now so many agents and officers who feel extremely emboldened. are completely in lockstep with Donald Trump and Stephen Miller's extremely racist mass deportation policy. And I was gutted by this news today. (05:13–05:22)

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