GOP ICE Resolution: “The Height of Hypocrisy, The Depth of Duplicity”
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) today spoke out against House Republicans' anti-immigrant resolution, which they have presented under the guise of praising law enforcement. Rep. Doggett said:
"Here, the height of hypocrisy, the depth of duplicity. While this Administration relentlessly, baselessly, and desperately attacks federal law enforcement officials—the FBI, the Justice Department, our intelligence agencies, again and again—these same Republicans, so proud of law enforcement in one narrow area today, they are silent. They stand by this tweet-addicted President, who, even this very day, has again denied that Russia poses any threat. Where is your resolution to defend the Federal Bureau of Investigation? Where is your resolution to defend NATO, which has been disparaged by this shameful president?
No. What we have today is a shameless, spineless group of Republican congressional enablers who are enabling Trump, who totally ignores those dedicated to defending our borders from Russian aggression.
These Republicans claim that we have so much more to fear from little infants and toddlers who cross our southern border, seeking to escape gang and domestic violence, and yet are torn by ICE from their mother's embrace, than from a murderous Vladimir Putin.
Of course we need immigration law enforcement and secure borders. But this resolution ignores many wrongs of ICE, hundreds of claims of harassment, sexual harassment, child separation, and unresponsive bureaucracy. At the same time that they ignore those wrongs, they ignore the wrongs of Trump in impairing other federal law enforcement.
Trump's own intelligence chief, a lifelong Republican that he appointed, warns that our democracy is under sustained Russian assault. Yet they are silent. Trump is impotent in the face of Putin. We need to reject this complicity, the Trump child abuse, and the abuse of federal law enforcement."
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