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Holding Ice Accountable

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 10, 2026
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, Federal immigration agents are out of control.

President Trump and Secretary Noem have turned ICE and border patrol into masked paramilitary forces that are terrorizing our neighborhoods. They are operating outside the law, terrorizing our communities, violating court orders, and shooting and killing immigrants and American citizens alike.

I cosponsored Articles of Impeachment against Kristi Noem, and I voted against funding the Department of Homeland Security to hold this administration accountable.

ICE must be defunded and dismantled. I am working to take the $75 billion that Republicans gave to ICE in the big, bad bill and invest the money where it belongs, which is in expanded healthcare and affordable housing. Every taxpayer dollar is better spent doing virtually anything other than funding this brutality.

Mr. Speaker, I won't stop fighting until the families in Denver and across the country are safe from these thugs.

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