Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rolled out the “bottom line” for Democrats amid the funding impasse for the Department of Homeland Security.
Thousands of federal employees, from ICE agents to TSA workers, are going without pay due to the DHS shutdown, and Schumer told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that Democrats refuse to budge on three core disputes in the negotiations to end the partial government shutdown.
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“Are you willing to accept anything less than the White House agreeing to all 10 of your demands to rein in ICE and fire Secretary Noem, or is it all or nothing?” Tapper asked the New York Democrat.
“Look, the bottom line is we have three basic objectives to rein in ICE and end the violence,” Schumer replied, going on to list the demands.
“First, no more of these roving patrols. You can’t just go to someone’s House, bash in their door without a warrant. You can’t indiscriminately grab someone off the streets and arrest them. What we’re proposing is that that stop,” he told Tapper.
“We’re also proposing that ICE agents can’t go to certain special places, churches, schools, polling places. We’re saying that they should end racial discrimination and not just pick someone up on the basis of what they look like. And we are proposing that the ICE be monitored carefully as well,” Schumer continued.
“The second area is accountability. They have to coordinate with local governments. They don’t do that now. They just show up in an area that may be perfectly safe and fine. We need a code of use of force,” he said.
“And, finally, and maybe most important, no secret police. No police department in America doesn’t identify themselves. But these guys wear masks. They don’t have cameras. We need masks off. We need cameras on,” he argued, adding that “every ICE officer should be identified.”
“ICE is rogue, out of control,” the lawmaker ranted.
Tapper noted that Republicans correctly point out that unmasking “will expose the ICE agents and CBP agents and their families to doxxing and threats to their safety.”
Schumer dismissed the concerns, arguing that “every police department across the country” is identified and without masks.
“So that makes no sense what they’re saying. And all we’re asking is that they follow what police departments do across the country. ICE is rogue,” he complained.
“Well, what if they are going after the cartels? I understand with the roving patrols and such that you’re talking about, but if in specific targeted instances, if ICE agents are going after criminals, violent criminals, members of the cartels or whatever…There certainly is an understandable concern about an ICE agent’s safety in that instance, no?” Tapper pressed.
Once again, Schumer pushed back, claiming ICE agents seem “trained” to be” nasty and mean and cruel” and calling out Republicans for not going along with “commonsense proposals.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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