Rep. Jayapal Defends Her Comment Calling ICE ‘a Terrorist Force’: ‘The White House Owes an Apology to the American People’

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JAYAPAL: “And so, I think it is the administration that has to apologize to U.S. citizens that have been rounded up, to legal permanent residents, to people with legal statuses across the country who are getting swept up, people who have been here for 20 years and committed absolutely no crimes, getting swept up by masked men who are kidnapping them and deporting them. That, to me, is what is so outrageous. It’s unconstitutional, it’s illegal, and it is absolutely terrorizing people, including small businesses, farmers. The roundtable I had in Spokane was with people from the Growers League, farmers who are terrified, restaurant owners who can’t have, you know, who are seeing their sales go down because nobody wants to come out and eat. Literally, people are so afraid, Brianna. It’s never something I thought I would see in the United States of America. the White House owes an apology to the American people for what they are doing.”