Congress Showed ICE Leaders Images of ICE Brutality. It Went About How You'd Expect.

"After months of watching federal agents terrorize communities all across the country in the name of immigration enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security's top brass sat before Congress on Tuesday to answer questions about the deaths of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, the detention of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, and the fates of countless others who have been caught in the crosshairs of the president's mass deportation effort."

""You are only here because public outrage has become so unavoidable," Rep. LaMonica McIver, of New Jersey, said during the House Homeland Security Committee's oversight hearing. McIver is being prosecuted by the Trump administration over an incident in New Jersey when she was barred from entering a detention facility. "You are here, Mr. Lyons, because white people are getting shot in the face and chest when the cameras are rolling.""

"Lyons remained straight-faced, offering no explanation for his agents' extreme use of force or denial about his agents' racial profiling of Americans. That profiling is something the Supreme Court essentially endorsed last year, after the justices issued a decision allowing the federal government to stop Hispanic migrants based on their "apparent ethnicity," as well as other factors, like if they have an accent or work certain types of jobs. This, predictably, has led ICE to overwhelmingly target Black and brown Americans with excessive force."

The Department of Homeland Security's top brass sat before Congress to answer questions about the deaths of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, the detention of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, and others affected by mass deportation. Acting ICE director Todd Lyons deflected responsibility and insisted ICE conducts only targeted arrests while Democrats produced evidence of racist and uncontrolled enforcement. Rep. LaMonica McIver linked public outrage to visible violence against white people on camera. Lyons offered no explanation for agents' extreme use of force or for racial profiling. A Supreme Court decision allowing stops based on 'apparent ethnicity' has enabled targeting of Black and brown Americans with excessive force.

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