Hakeem Jeffries: American People Saw Citizens Killed in Cold Blood Without Justification by ICE Agents

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JEFFRIES: "So, the other side spent weeks during the 43-day Trump Republican government shutdown in the fall, trying to claim that Democrats were actually fighting to provide health care to undocumented immigrants. The American people didn’t buy that argument, and they understood that we were actually fighting to make health care more affordable for them. And that’s part of the reason why the American people, appropriately, blame Donald Trump and Republicans for shutting the government down in the fall. And now we find ourselves back in the same situation where we’re supposed to believe an administration that told the American people that Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti were domestic terrorists when the American people saw these citizens killed in cold blood without justification by ICE agents who are supposed to be protecting and serving the nation. And so I’m not concerned about the administration’s spin. We just want to deal with fact and reality. And the American people know that immigration enforcement in this country, it should be fair, it should be just and it should be humane. And that is not what they’re seeing. And that’s what we’re trying to accomplish."