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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett on \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d Friday compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to \u201cslave patrols\u201d amid reports of a sharp rise in assaults against agents.<\/p>\n
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE officers are facing a 1,000% increase in assaults while conducting operations. On the radio show, Crockett described ICE as a \u201crogue policing force,\u201d arguing that people would recognize the similarity to \u201cslave patrols\u201d if they were familiar with black history.<\/p>\n
\u201c[W]e\u2019re seeing that they are unleashing this rogue policing force that if they taught black history, they would know about slave patrols. Because when I look at what they are doing with ICE, it looks like slave patrols,\u201d Crockett said. \u201cAnd then you\u2019ve got a Supreme Court that\u2019s like, \u2018Yeah, you can pick them up because of how they look or how they sound.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds like a slave patrol,\u201d she added. \u201cLike, that is what policing was born of. So yes, we need to teach history.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court recently granted the Trump administration\u2019s request to lift restrictions on Los Angeles immigration raids.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump\u2019s administration had asked the justices in August to block a district court judge\u2019s order that barred immigration officers from considering race, location, type of work, or whether someone spoke Spanish when conducting stops. The administration argued that the judge should not \u201cmicromanage\u201d immigration enforcement, particularly in areas where one in ten residents is undocumented.<\/p>\n
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson \u2014 all appointed by Democratic presidents \u2014 dissented.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job,\u201d Sotomayor wrote. \u201cRather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n
ICE is currently carrying out federal immigration operations in Massachusetts and Chicago. Previously, the Trump administration conducted successful large-scale crackdowns on undocumented migrants in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
Crockett has repeatedly argued against criminal penalties for illegal entry. On \u201cThe Katie Phang Show\u201d in March, she claimed, \u201cit is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally \u2026 it\u2019s not a crime.\u201d White House border czar Tom Homan criticized her remarks on Fox Business\u2019 \u201cVarney & Co.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a crime to enter the country illegally under Title 8 United States Code 1325, and it\u2019s really pathetic that any member of Congress [doesn\u2019t] understand what the law says,\u201d Homan told host Stuart Varney. \u201cThey wrote the law, they enacted the law, [it\u2019s] signed by a president. It is a criminal violation to enter the country illegally. And if you\u2019ve entered prior, it\u2019s a felony.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crockett also sparked controversy during a Wednesday House Judiciary Committee markup by dismissing Kayla Hamilton \u2014 an autistic woman murdered at age 20 by an illegal immigrant \u2014 as a \u201crandom dead\u201d person.<\/p>\n
The committee was reviewing the Kayla Hamilton Act, aimed at tightening regulations on some placements of unaccompanied alien children. Hamilton\u2019s killer entered the U.S. illegally as a minor during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
\u201c[S]top playing these games and acting like you care about one particular situation. You take a situation and then you exploit what has happened to not only that person, but you exploit those families and you make it a game!\u201d Crockett said.<\/p>\n
\u201cStop just throwing a random dead person\u2019s name on something for your own political expediency!\u201d<\/p>\n
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