SEN RUBEN GALLEGO: I won't fund a rogue ICE that shoots first and calls it law enforcement

On Saturday, I saw the video that millions of Americans person present seen. In Minnesota, national migration officers changeable and killed different civilian point-blank. From the start, the officers instantly escalated the situation. Before they fired, the antheral was lying connected the ground, unarmed, and posed nary threat. The officers changeable implicit 10 times successful 5 seconds.

I was successful high-pressure combat situations successful Iraq, wherever I didn’t ever cognize if civilians were a menace oregon not. But I was trained to de-escalate situations archetypal — not to get drunk connected powerfulness and sprout first. What the agents successful Minnesota did was murder.

Violent officers person nary spot successful our instrumentality enforcement agencies. When the radical who are expected to support america harmless are shooting Americans successful acold blood, thing is profoundly wrong.

This isn’t the archetypal sidesplitting we’ve seen since Bovino’s forces and different national agents descended connected Minnesota.

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On Jan. 7, successful Minneapolis, an ICE serviceman changeable and killed Renee Good, a parent of three. She was changeable constituent blank successful the look 3 times. It was a disgusting, pointless sidesplitting that has horrified Americans crossed the country. What’s truthful disturbing is if this: if this is however ICE treats radical erstwhile the cameras are on, you tin ideate however they behave erstwhile nary one’s watching.

People should not unrecorded successful fearfulness of the precise radical who are expected to support them. First and foremost, ICE cannot beryllium arsenic we cognize it now.

There is simply a wide pattern: erstwhile authorities treats full communities arsenic suspects and measures occurrence by apprehension totals, guiltless radical get caught successful the crossfire.

These are not the lone cases of abuse. Stephen Miller’s agents are stopping anyone who looks Hispanic oregon speaks Spanish, including U.S. citizens. In Arizona, ICE picked up a Navajo man, who had identification, conscionable due to the fact that of the colour of his skin. In Minnesota, national migration agents forced introduction and detained a U.S. national astatine gunpoint, past led him extracurricular successful freezing conditions successful his underwear. And a Minnesota nonmigratory and U.S. passport holder was detained aft an cause said it was "because of his accent."

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Trump and Stephen Miller person turned ICE into what erstwhile was an bureau designed to support Americans harmless into his ain backstage army. Instead of protecting us, Trump's ICE agents are actively harming Americans. By removing guardrails and rewarding aggression, the medication has created a clime wherever reckless unit is much apt and wherever accountability is treated arsenic an obstacle.

I cannot ballot to springiness this rogue bureau a azygous penny portion they proceed these abuses.

This is not what radical voted for.

When I talked to Arizonans connected the run way — Democrats, moderates, and Republicans — the connection was consistent: unafraid the border, enforce the law, and bash it successful a mode that protects families. They wanted radical with transgression records deported. So, erstwhile Trump ran connected going aft "the worst of the worst," radical voted for him. It turns out, that was a lie.

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I supported Trump’s determination to designate cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations. I applauded him erstwhile borderline crossings fell. But alternatively of doing what helium said — targeting criminals who airs existent threats —he has deployed masked agents into our communities to expanse up immoderate immigrants they tin find, including radical without transgression records who person been present for decades.

This comes aft Republican-appointed justices connected the Supreme Court ruled to efficaciously greenish airy ICE’s radical profiling successful day-to-day enforcement.

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To marque matters worse, the Trump administration’s obsession with gathering arbitrary quotas is making Americans little safe.

Thousands of national instrumentality enforcement agents person been pulled distant from their enactment warring convulsive crime, cause trafficking, and kid exploitation and reassigned to arrest, detain, and deport immigrants. Every time an cause spends going aft our neighbors—students, families, and operation workers—is different time erstwhile fentanyl traffickers, fraudsters, and kid predators person much country to operate.

The economical fallout is real, too. When workers vanish from occupation sites overnight, section businesses suffer employees, projects stall, and costs rise. When families fearfulness driving to school, showing up to a clinic, oregon reporting a crime, the full assemblage pays the price. That is not "order." That is chaos, manufactured by Washington and absorbed by moving Americans.

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People should not unrecorded successful fearfulness of the precise radical who are expected to support them. First and foremost, ICE cannot beryllium arsenic we cognize it now.

What Immigration Enforcement Should Be

We request to refocus ICE’s resources distant from Trump’s PR stunts and backmost toward really keeping communities safe.

The Homeland Security backing measure heading to the Senate does not spell acold capable to restrain the agency’s unchecked authority. I volition not ballot to springiness ICE much payer wealth to terrorize our communities.

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Instead, we request betterment that makes ICE targeted, professional, and focused connected existent information threats — not governmental quotas and quality soundbites. That means wide use-of-force standards that prioritize de-escalation, limits connected unsafe tactics, mandatory assemblage cameras, and meaningful reporting and oversight.

That’s wherefore Senator Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and I introduced the Stop Excessive Force successful Immigration Act of 2026, which would bring much-needed accountability and restraint to Trump’s ICE. It establishes caller accountability, professionalism, and behaviour requirements, similar use-of-force standards and different common-sense measures. It’s a elemental principle: enforce the law, but bash it lawfully — and bash it successful a mode that makes America safer, not angrier.

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The information is, it does not person to beryllium this way. We tin unafraid the borderline without treating full communities similar suspects. We tin enforce migration laws without terrorizing communities oregon putting guiltless radical successful danger. Back successful May, I laid retired a program to hole our breached migration system. We tin yet modernize a strategy that has been breached for excessively agelong — strengthening borderline security, speeding up ineligible processing, and gathering workable, ineligible pathways that enactment American businesses and workers.

America’s migration strategy is broken. But Trump’s heavy-handed migration tactics are not the answer. They volition lone marque things worse: little trust, little safety, and much chaos. We tin bash better, and we must.

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