Secure America Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I stand with my Democratic colleagues in strong opposition to this bill.

This bill is yet another attempt by MAGA-controlled Republicans to give billions of dollars to the violent, lawless, and unconstitutional Trump administration.

In last year's big, ugly bill, Republicans starved working families and stripped healthcare from millions of Americans to fund DHS' immigration crackdown without any guardrails.

DHS used these funds to break into homes without warrants, surveil and lock up nonviolent protesters, deport sick children with cancer, and kill two American citizens who were lawfully exercising their First Amendment and Second Amendment rights.

This bill, just like the last one, does not prohibit any agent from wearing a mask. It does not require officers to get judicial warrants. This bill does not prohibit racial profiling or surveilling databases of unlawful protesters. It does not stop raids at daycares, churches, or even hospitals.

This bill does not prevent the Justice Department from creating a slush fund to pay Donald Trump's insurrectionists who assaulted law enforcement.

Instead, this bill gives the Trump regime a blank check to execute more out-of-control, unaccountable crackdowns on migrants and the American citizens supporting them. Americans know the difference.

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Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Americans know the difference between a government that works for them and one that works only for Donald Trump. We must oppose this awful bill.

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