"Our president has sent poorly trained federal agents into our cities where they have arrested and detained American citizens and people who aspire to be Americans. And they have done it without a warrant. They have ripped nursing mothers away from their babies, they have sent children, a little boy in a blue bunny hat, children to far-off detention centers, and they have killed American citizens in our streets."
"Every minute spent sowing fear is a minute not spent investigating murders, crimes against children, or the criminals defrauding seniors of their life savings. Our president told us tonight that we are safer because these agents arrest mothers and detain children. Think about that our broken immigration system is something to be fixed, not an excuse for unaccountable agents to terrorize our communities."
"I am duty bound to tell you the ICE Basic Immigration Enforcement Training Program is now deficient, defective, and broken."
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger delivered the Democratic response to Trump's State of the Union address, condemning the deployment of poorly trained federal agents into American cities. She detailed specific harms including arrests of American citizens without warrants, separation of nursing mothers from infants, detention of children, and deaths of American citizens. Spanberger argued that immigration enforcement officials prioritize sowing fear over investigating serious crimes like murders and fraud. She emphasized that agents operate with masked faces, avoiding accountability. A former ICE training instructor corroborated these concerns, testifying to Congress that the ICE Basic Immigration Enforcement Training Program is deficient, defective, and broken.
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