Washington, D.C. — Today Andrew O’Neill, Indivisible’s National Advocacy Director, released the following statement on the Senate’s first DHS appropriations vote today:
“Today’s Senate vote is an important first step toward unifying Democrats against the escalating violence carried out by ICE and Border Patrol in our communities. Republicans don’t have the votes to jam through this toxic DHS bill. The obvious path forward is to pull DHS out of the broader appropriations package, pass the remaining five bills, and get to work totally remaking the DHS bill to stop this terror and lawlessness.
“Republicans need to come to the table. And Democrats must ensure they do not settle for anything less than ending the reckless operation in Minnesota and pulling ICE and Border Patrol out of Minneapolis and the rest of our communities, ending family detentions, ending arrests without warrants, and full cooperation with an independent investigation into the killings of Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti. We need justice, accountability, and freedom from this oppression.
“To be extremely clear, any shutdown of any federal agency is due solely to the inaction and cruelty of Republicans. They have thus far insisted on cutting blank checks to Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to order goons to kidnap our children and kill people in the streets. Enough. We refuse to be held hostage by this brutality.”
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