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Hearing “Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 41 transcript matches
MS. SARAH PIERCE "Thank you, and I look forward to your questions. No, it does not, and I agree. The central question here is not only just about accountability, right? It's about public safety. What can keep us all the safest? And so there's a few different problems with what the Trump administration is doing and how they're approaching that, and I'll touch on two of them. The first is the redirection of federal resources to immigration enforcement above violent crimes. This administration has moved tens of thousands of federal law enforcement officers away from their primary duties of going after human..."
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 10 transcript matches
KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY "But if you want to, if you're espousing support for law enforcement, then you should be like, I do support wearing body cameras. And that's all this says. This title and amendment made by this title shall not take effect until the Secretary of Homeland Security has deployed functional body-worn cameras on all U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who are engaged in civil immigration enforcement actions. I mean, that is"
Hearing The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript · 8 transcript matches
MCCLINTOCK, TOM "A number of fatalities and injuries could have been avoided if the aliens had been turned over to ICE while in custody. You cannot lament their deaths while defending the policies that killed them. Unless, of course, your alternative is to stop enforcing immigration laws altogether and return to the Biden days of wide open borders. Here's the fine point of it. This amendment requires federal judicial warrants for immigration enforcement. Well, here's what the Democrats are well aware of, but hope the American people are not. Federal judicial warrants do not exist for immigration"
Hearing "Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Americans"
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
SPEAKER_29 "I want to go back to where FEMA is really out of bounds, and that is the current FEMA program is being used to support immigration enforcement by the federal government. This is wrong, it's contrary to law, and it's creating a very profound"
CRS Report
The Biden Administration’s Immigration Enforcement Priorities: Background and Legal Considerations
Posts · Dec 9, 2022
Almost immediately after taking office, President Biden issued a series of directives on immigration matters. Some of these directives focused on altering the immigration enforcement priorities of...
CRS Report
The 287(g) Program: State and Local Immigration Enforcement
Resources · Aug 12, 2021
Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), codified in 8 U.S.C. §1357(g), permits the delegation of certain immigration enforcement functions to state and local law enforcement...
Hearing “Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America's Northern Border”
house Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Request transcript · 6 transcript matches
CORREA, J. LUIS "we face similar challenges. Arms trafficking, drug mules, human smugglers, and terrorists attempting to cross the northern border to and from Canada, both north and south. And Democrats, I would say, my Republican colleagues, I believe, we're committed to upholding the lawful security and secure northern border. But what we will not support, however, are immigration enforcement agencies using unnecessarily aggressive tactics on American citizens or putting their health at risk. Let me repeat, what we will not tolerate are immigration enforcement officers trampling on constitutional rights of..."
CRS Report
Supreme Court Limits States’ Ability to Challenge Immigration Enforcement Policies
Posts · Aug 18, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is one of the key agencies responsible for the enforcement of federal immigration laws against aliens who lack a legal basis to remain in the United States....
CRS Report
Alien Removals and Returns: Overview and Trends
Reports · Feb 3, 2015
The ability to remove foreign nationals (aliens) who violate U.S. immigration law is central to the immigration enforcement system. Some lawful migrants violate the terms of their admittance, and...
CRS Report
Immigration 101: Executive Branch Agencies Involved with Immigration
Resources · Jun 7, 2023
While Congress has plenary power over immigration law, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), Homeland Security Act (HSA), and other laws grant substantial discretion over immigration policy to...
CRS Report
Border Security: Immigration Enforcement Between Ports of Entry
Reports · Apr 19, 2016
Border enforcement is a core element of the Department of Homeland Security’s effort to control unauthorized migration, with the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) within the U.S. Customs and Border...
CRS Report
Recent White House Actions on Immigration
Posts · Mar 23, 2021
In the past several weeks, the Biden Administration has engaged in a series of executive actions on a range of issues. Some concern the administration and enforcement of federal immigration laws....
Hearing H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Condemning prosecution policies that give preferential treatment to foreign...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
MCCLINTOCK, TOM "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Your subcommittee on immigration integrity, security, and enforcement has held four hearings now, probing the policies of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. These policies are to shield criminal illegal aliens from deportation and instead release them back into our communities. This has nothing to do with general immigration enforcement. These policies specifically obstruct the removal of illegal aliens who have committed other crimes, are in custody, and instead of turning them over to ICE for deportation as the law requires, they instead turn them loose in our..."
CRS Report
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Powers and Limitations: A Primer
Posts · Nov 30, 2021
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), enforces federal customs and immigration laws at or near the international border and at U.S. ports...
CRS Report
The Trump Administration’s “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Enforcement Policy
Reports · Feb 2, 2021
For the last decade, Central American migrant families have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in relatively large numbers, many seeking asylum. While some request asylum at U.S. ports of entry,...
CRS Report
Supreme Court Considers Meaning of “An Offense Relating to Obstruction of Justice” for Immigration Enforcement Purposes
Posts · Jun 29, 2023
On June 22, 2023, in Pugin v. Garland (decided together with Garland v. Cordero-Garcia), the Supreme Court considered the meaning of the phrase “an offense relating to obstruction of justice” for...
CRS Report
Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 118th Congress
Reports · Sep 5, 2024
This report discusses immigration-related bills that have received congressional action in the 118th Congress as of the report’s cover date. For the purposes of the report, bills receiving...
CRS Report
Immigration Detainers: Background and Recent Legal Developments
Posts · Oct 9, 2020
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has authority to detain non-U.S. nationals (aliens) who are subject to removal. Within DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is mainly responsible...
Hearing “Leveraging Technology to Strengthen Immigration Enforcement”
house Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Subcommittee · Mar 4, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing “Restoring Immigration Enforcement in America”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jan 22, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
senate Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety Subcommittee · Nov 19, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Oversight Hearing – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
house Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · May 14, 2025 · Request transcript
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Thank you, and I look forward to your questions. No, it does not, and I agree. The central question here is not only just about accountability, right? It's about public safety. What can keep us all the safest? And so there's a few different problems with what the Trump administration is doing and how they're approaching that, and I'll touch on two of them. The first is the redirection of federal resources to immigration enforcement above violent crimes. This administration has moved tens of..."
Testimony JESSICA VAUGHN
Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"Good morning and thank you. More than half of removable aliens live in those jurisdictions that have sanctuary policies intended to hinder immigration enforcement and prohibit cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement, which is almost always a violation of federal law and imposes enormous costs on taxpayers. My organization has been tracking these policies since 2015 and we maintain a list and map of jurisdictions and policies on our website. Those..."
CRS Report
Immigration: Alternatives to Detention (ATD) Programs
Reports · Jul 8, 2019
Since FY2004, Congress has appropriated funding to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for an Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program to provide...
Witness Scott Mechkowski
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · 1 hearing
Witness Todd Lyons
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · 2 hearings
Witness RJ Hauman
National Immigration Center for Enforcement · 1 hearing
Witness Ms. Kerry Doyle
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Michael Krol
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · 1 hearing
Hearing Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
JESSICA VAUGHN "Good morning and thank you. More than half of removable aliens live in those jurisdictions that have sanctuary policies intended to hinder immigration enforcement and prohibit cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement, which is almost always a violation of federal law and imposes enormous costs on taxpayers. My organization has been tracking these policies since 2015 and we maintain a list and map of jurisdictions and policies on our website. Those who promote sanctuary policies often claim that they're needed to build trust with immigrants so..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"immigrants instead of conducting complex criminal investigations of corruption, espionage, terrorism, cyber attacks, and transnational gangs. All things that are necessary to keep Americans safe. Similarly, around one in every two Drug Enforcement Agency agents, two in three Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agents, and one in five U.S. Marshals have all been reassigned to Immigration Enforcement. From within ICE, thousands of Homeland Security Investigations, HSI agents, are..."
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"It would be used to hire officers, it would be used to train officers, it would be used to support officer wellness programs, it would be used to support resources for law enforcement such as body cameras, different things that they desperately need. Sure. So, I mean, talking specifically about immigration enforcement, like I said during my testimony, every single law enforcement jurisdiction across the United States cooperates with immigration enforcement. every single law enforcement..."
Testimony FLETCHER, LIZZIE
Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U....
house Energy and Commerce Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"And since this new rule has been implemented, health care professionals have reported an influx of immigration enforcement agents in hospitals, and that the presence of these agents roaming the hospitals has left many people scared to go there. And recently, federal health officials agreed to give immigration enforcement officials access to a Medicaid database that includes enrollees' addresses and citizenship status. And despite a court challenge, the courts are allowing this policy to move..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"And so the Trump administration's approach has been to force every state, city, and locality to use their resources, precious resources, quite small in many jurisdictions, to enforce federal immigration law. In Mr. Abraham's case, it sounds like, actually, that was a Chicago, that sounds like a state actually that was a Chicago, that sounds like a state of Illinois issue, but the whole question of where local law enforcement prioritizes resources and what keeps us safer, my question for you is,..."
Testimony CHAD WOLF
Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"So the idea here, and it's an ironic kind of play here, is that individuals and politicians that want less ICE in their jurisdictions, they will give them sanctuary policies to say, we want ICE out. But in fact, it just requires them to be more in their communities because they won't go into a jail setting. They have to go into their neighborhoods. They have to continue to enforce immigration law. So if your idea is, I want to see less ICE in my community, I don't like immigration enforcement,..."
Testimony MCCLINTOCK, TOM
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"A number of fatalities and injuries could have been avoided if the aliens had been turned over to ICE while in custody. You cannot lament their deaths while defending the policies that killed them. Unless, of course, your alternative is to stop enforcing immigration laws altogether and return to the Biden days of wide open borders. Here's the fine point of it. This amendment requires federal judicial warrants for immigration enforcement. Well, here's what the Democrats are well aware of, but..."
CRS Report
Border Security: Immigration Inspections at Ports of Entry
Reports · Jan 26, 2015
About 362 million travelers (citizens and noncitizens) entered the United States in FY2013, including about 102 million air passengers and crew, 18 million sea passengers and crew, and 242 million...
CRS Report
UPDATE: The End of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program: Some Immediate Takeaways
Posts · Apr 5, 2018
UPDATE: Following the publication of this Sidebar, additional developments have arisen that affect the Trump Administration’s planned phase-out of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...
Hearing “False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
MR. ART DEL CUETO "Chairman Van Drew, Ranking Member Crockett and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. It is a privilege to be here. My name is Art Del Cueto. I spent my career on the front lines of immigration enforcement and also served as a corrections officer in the state of Arizona. I now am a border security advisor for the Federation for American Immigration Reform and I'm here today because what is happening at Delaney Hall is part of something much larger and far more sinister than any facility in Newark. For four years the Biden administration operated a..."
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Thank you, Ms. Pierce. The Trump administration has diverted over 28,000 officers from their law enforcement roles in the federal government to do immigration enforcement. How does this shifting focus from criminal enforcement to immigration enforcement hurt public safety? How does this shifting focus from criminal enforcement to immigration enforcement hurt public"
Testimony CHAD WOLF
Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"In that county, Fairfax County, has been a sanctuary for almost a decade, and this is the tragic result. Despite the dangerous nature of sanctuary jurisdictions, there are some that will not stop until we become a sanctuary nation, largely free from all border enforcement and immigration enforcement. Calls for ICE-free zones, detention bans, and even an outright abolishment of ICE are becoming increasingly"
Testimony JANE STOEVER
“Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Pol...
house Judiciary Committee · May 14, 2026
"It absolutely undermines trust. When you have law enforcement and the line between law enforcement and immigration enforcement blurred, when you call the police, you don't know when they show up at your door. Are they there to help or to deport"
Testimony KAMLAGER-DOVE, SYDNEY
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"But if you want to, if you're espousing support for law enforcement, then you should be like, I do support wearing body cameras. And that's all this says. This title and amendment made by this title shall not take effect until the Secretary of Homeland Security has deployed functional body-worn cameras on all U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who are engaged in civil immigration enforcement actions. I mean, that is"
Hearing “Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. Doe”
house Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
GOLDMAN, DANIEL S. "talk about what the issues that you are raising are. And Mr. Rogers, you, Mr. Jordan asked you, uh, whether or not the sanctuary laws prohibit state or local law enforcement from cooperating with federal law enforcement. The problem is these are criminal law enforcement agencies and the state and local level and immigration is civil law enforcement. So we can imagine a scenario, of course, where the civil immigration enforcement completely overwhelms all of the resources of the local police and the local criminal law enforcement. That is the reason why sanctuary city laws apply is that so the..."
Hearing An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
PETERS, GARY C. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Commissioner Schnell, has ICE or anyone else at DHS attempted to coordinate their operations with state and local law enforcement or even notified them when they are conducting immigration enforcement according to your knowledge? So it hasn't. They have not been attempting to coordinate with local law enforcement, what you've"
Testimony GOLDMAN, DANIEL S.
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"talk about what the issues that you are raising are. And Mr. Rogers, you, Mr. Jordan asked you, uh, whether or not the sanctuary laws prohibit state or local law enforcement from cooperating with federal law enforcement. The problem is these are criminal law enforcement agencies and the state and local level and immigration is civil law enforcement. So we can imagine a scenario, of course, where the civil immigration enforcement completely overwhelms all of the resources of the local police and..."
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"In many cases, states and localities have determined that taking on the federal responsibility to enforce immigration laws would destroy trust between immigrants and local law enforcement, which would make everyone less"
Testimony SPEAKER_34
H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"Second, it would protect the sanctity of our military-civilian divide and prevent the abuse of our men and women, of sending them into positions of conducting civilian law enforcement operations and politically contentious immigration enforcement proceedings. And the third is it would make sure that immigration judges actually remain the highly"
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Public policy should prioritize accountability for criminal offenders, protection for victims, and the safety of law-abiding citizens. I agree with that. And I think everybody on the side agrees with that. I think the question really is what creates that environment most effectively. And I spent some time in my opening statement, and I know you did as well, Ms. Pierce, talking about how resources are getting taken from different parts of Department of Homeland Security, other law enforcement,..."
Testimony GOLDMAN, DANIEL S.
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"legally, they go into immigration custody if they're not put into federal custody. The issue is with the sanctuary cities, we're talking about city and state criminal prosecutions. Mr. Roy, I guess what I would just ask is why is not some of the $240 billion that is being given to our immigration enforcement going to hire many more immigration judges to get out of the backlog of asylum? That's a pretty simple thing. Instead, it's going to $50,000 bonuses to people who"
Testimony PETERS, SCOTT H.
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Two people, two more people were gunned down this this month. People who are hardworking, just trying to feed their families, presented no threat to this country. This is not about whether or not we enforce the immigration laws. This is about how we enforce the immigration laws. We're very comfortable with police being trained, police abiding by certain standards, police deescalating force and not murdering people in the streets when when something goes wrong and even the wrong people that they..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"enforcement and law enforcement so much that they essentially no longer exist. They've destroyed trust in communities and created fear and even deported witnesses to important crimes so that then those crimes cannot be effectively prosecuted. On top of that, the Trump administration has diverted over 28,000 officers from their critical law enforcement activities to work on immigration enforcement instead. This has led to non-immigration criminal prosecutions falling to their lowest point in..."
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Third, this administration's own decisions are making Americans more vulnerable to crime. Federal law enforcement are abandoning serious work in favor of immigration enforcement. In San Francisco, federal drug-dealing prosecutions fell by more than half after federal agents were redirected to immigration enforcement. In San Francisco, federal drug-dealing prosecutions fell by more than half after federal agents were redirected to immigration enforcement. human trafficking, arms trafficking, and..."
Testimony PETERS, GARY C.
An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Commissioner Schnell, has ICE or anyone else at DHS attempted to coordinate their operations with state and local law enforcement or even notified them when they are conducting immigration enforcement according to your knowledge? So it hasn't. They have not been attempting to coordinate with local law enforcement, what you've"
Testimony GARCÍA, JESÚS G. "CHUY"
“The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"But it ran into problems, didn't it? They divert law enforcement resources from combating white nationalism to low-level immigration enforcement. They accused the SPLC of being anti-Christian, for opposing anti-abortion, anti-LGBT"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"residency was detained and held in custody for several days, and another student who's a U.S. citizen was stopped by ICE outside a district learning center. The school superintendent said, quote, families of our black and brown students feared profiling and family separation even as legal residents. White families reported keeping children home due to anxieties about potential armed law enforcement activity taking place inside the schools. And even when kids are showing up, immigration..."
Testimony BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"let me have to get that Let me move to another topic You stated on Tuesday, quote, no U.S. citizen is subject to immigration enforcement, and that doesn't happen. If a U.S. citizen is detained in the course of the immigration investigation, they are quickly released. I ask unanimous consent that a report that we did, a ranking member of staff did, entitled Unchecked Authority. It documents 22"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Judiciary Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"Office on Violence Against Women be consolidated with other offices within the DOJ, despite explicit statutory language requiring that the office exist as a standalone entity. Trump has also taken a wrecking ball to the federal government's capacity to investigate and prosecute criminals, including those who commit sex crimes. DOJ is hemorrhaging thousands of lawyers and having a hard time recruiting replacements. Data from ICE reveal that in 2025, an astounding 14,500 federal law enforcement..."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"If Trump cared about public safety, he would not pardon a major cocaine trafficker. And if the Trump administration cared about public safety, it would allow federal law enforcement to work on gun prosecutions and child exploitation cases instead of pulling them off to work only on immigration enforcement. But this bill is not about public safety. It's a dangerous bill that gives the Trump administration unfettered power to deport someone without proof of"
Testimony MR. ART DEL CUETO
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Chairman Van Drew, Ranking Member Crockett and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. It is a privilege to be here. My name is Art Del Cueto. I spent my career on the front lines of immigration enforcement and also served as a corrections officer in the state of Arizona. I now am a border security advisor for the Federation for American Immigration Reform and I'm here today because what is happening at Delaney Hall is part of something much larger and far..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS...
house Homeland Security Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"Yes, sir. I appreciate the question. Well, unfortunately, there's a misnomer that ICE is just a civil enforcement agency, and that's completely wrong. ICE enforces over 400 criminal statutes as well. Special agents, especially with the Homeland Security investigations, they're consistently out there doing human trafficking cases, drug cases, terrorism cases. We do encounter U.S. citizens, and those who do commit federal crimes are arrested. But under Title VIII, no U.S. citizen is subject to..."
Testimony MR. ART DEL CUETO
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"thirty two hundred percent increase in vehicular attacks and eight thousand percent increase in death threats. Why are these radical activists and politicians targeting Delaney Hall and other detention facilities? It's simple. Detention works. More illegal aliens are opting for voluntary departure and border crossings have dropped dramatically since President Trump took over office. Without detention the message to every would-be border crosser is that there are no consequences. The smear..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"driving their Children to school, living their lives killed by illegal aliens who had already been in local custody or who are or who were already known to law enforcement and who were released back onto our streets without so much as a phone call to federal immigration authorities. These are real families torn apart by tragedies that were entirely preventable. Each and every life taken by an illegal alien in this country is a preventable death. They should not be here in the first place. And..."
Testimony MCCLINTOCK, TOM
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Without objection, so ordered. I'll now recognize myself for an opening statement. During this session, this subcommittee is focused on so-called sanctuary laws that put criminal illegal aliens back on the streets rather than turning them over to federal authorities for deportation as the law requires. The sole effect of these laws is not to impede general immigration enforcement, it is specifically to prevent deporting criminals. The toll of death and incarceration is heartbreaking. As the..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"the enforcement of federal civil immigration laws and the enforcement of local criminal laws. This division ensures that people don't fear law enforcement who try to enforce immigration law, and that community members will actually come forward and be witnesses in these prosecutions to report crimes when they happen. The Trump administration, however, has ignored decades of research and has done the exact opposite. They've blurred the lines between immigration enforcement and law enforcement so..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"says that as a result of all of this, our government is, quote, asleep at the wheel and less prepared to stop terrorist attacks than at any point since 9-11. For what? For what? What are the results of that? Arrests of immigrants without a single criminal conviction surged by 770 percent. And these immigrants of all immigration statuses get locked up or deported or disappeared at tremendous cost to you, the taxpayers, and to the traumatized communities that are left behind. That's not a public..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"The private prison companies who incarcerate these people get massive profits. They turn around and then contribute to Republicans and Trump's campaigns while maintaining the most horrific conditions inside the prisons that have led to a record 51 deaths in ICE detention just since President Trump took office. So what does all this do for Americans? It hurts them. Their communities get torn apart, their kids lose friends, their businesses suffer from lack of workers, and guess what? Americans..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Americans want Trump and Republicans to focus on lowering grocery prices, stop giving tax breaks to billionaires, while stripping health care from tens of millions of Americans. But just like Trump has insulted Americans by refusing to sign the most consequential bipartisan housing bill in a generation, calling it unimportant and a, quote, yawn, he's insulting Americans by continuing these harsh immigration policies that hurt safety and hurt opportunity for all Americans. Republicans instead..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Their counties were named sanctuary jurisdictions simply because they had strong policies on upholding states' rights and rejecting unfunded federal mandates, and strong policies against conscripting state and local officers to execute federal duties. Stunned by this response, DHS removed the list days after it was published because a list of sanctuary jurisdictions defying the feds could not possibly include so many conservative sheriffs from red counties who drew a strict line around on how..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"So why are our colleagues so desperate to keep pulling this boogeyman of the sanctuary jurisdictions out of the closet? Well, perhaps it has to do with the fact that they voted to give DHS more than a quarter of a trillion dollars to improve immigration enforcement. And America has watched as the Department of Homeland Security has used this staggering pile of money to waste on luxurious private jets for the secretary, complete with bedrooms and bars, on overpriced and ultimately useless..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"They've allowed ICE to ignore its duty to keep us safe from the worst of the worst and instead gone after kids and parents coming home from kindergarten, rape survivors who just finished testifying in court, and volunteers at Catholic church soup kitchens. ICE's indiscriminate and chaotic immigration enforcement has also undermined the ability of state and local prosecutors and law enforcement to keep their own communities safe and to deliver justice to victims of crime. They are deporting..."
Testimony MR. JOE ABRAHAM
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"They respected the process because they respected the country. They taught me citizenship carries obligations. The laws exist for a reason, and that government has fundamental responsibilities to the people it serves. When government fails in that responsibility, real people bear the consequences. My daughter was one of them. The central question before this committee, to me, is straightforward. Did failures in immigration enforcement, government coordination, public policy, increase..."
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"The Biden administration's border policies were inexcusable. The Trump administration's interior enforcement policies are also inexcusable. My testimony today focuses on why. I have three main points. First, sanctuary policies do not prevent ICE from enforcing federal law. Every jurisdiction, including self-proclaimed sanctuaries, participates in immigration enforcement. When someone is booked, fingerprints are checked against federal databases, and ICE has access to that. ICE has federal..."
Testimony MR. GARY REDMAN
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"two Ukrainian nationals, two South African nationals, and one Guatemala national. Since President Trump returned to office and federal immigration enforcement priorities have changed, we have cooperated with ICE to the fullest extent permitted under California's SB54 sanctuary"
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"That is what the committee should be examining today. Ms. Pierce, immigration enforcement is the responsibility of the federal government, and DHS has unprecedented resources and historic levels of funding. Does the federal government have the resources and personnel necessary to enforce immigration law, or does it need to usurp state"
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"I don't, I feel like very few people would argue that taking officers who were focused on violent crime, child exploitation, human trafficking, firearms trafficking, fentanyl smuggling, and putting them instead to focus on civil immigration enforcement, it doesn't increase public safety. It pulls individuals away from their primary public safety missions. Also, unfortunately, this administration has failed to answer questions from Congress about how many exactly agents were pulled away from..."
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"So Homeland Security Investigations is a wing of ICE. Unfortunately, this administration has pulled many of the individuals who specialize in the specific crimes that HSI focuses on to instead focus on immigration enforcement. And that includes individuals focused on child exploitation cases. These are very specialized agents that work on these"
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Yes, absolutely. So Homeland Security Investigations, which has lost so many agents, to instead focus on civil immigration enforcement, also focuses on human trafficking, drug smuggling,"
Testimony MR. GARY REDMAN
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"So we're able to share some limited information. The gentleman that I call a gentleman, the suspect that was arrested in my jurisdiction for the lewd acts with a child, that information under SB 54 that I provided to them was not legally able to provide that information. Thank you. So we don't spend a whole lot of resources on any type of immigration enforcement. We have no authority to do that. So when I keep hearing that our resources are tapped, what they're actually tapped into is when they..."
Testimony KNOTT, BRAD
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"And I do have to ask you, Ms. Pierce, one question. You said that sanctuary jurisdictions do not prevent ICE or immigration enforcement. Do you stand by that"
Testimony KNOTT, BRAD
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"I didn't ask that. Will you condemn considering immigration policies before charging or resolving cases? Because when they do that, that does affect immigration enforcement, correct? I'm talking about criminal illegal immigrants,"
Testimony MS. SARAH PIERCE
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"I don't think immigration should be a consideration when we're talking about criminal law. We're not talking about criminal law. We're not talking about civil immigration enforcement. ICE can pick them up either way, whether or not they're charged,"
Testimony KNOTT, BRAD
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Someone sat in that very chair and said, I will release somebody if they're an illegal immigrant and they're charged with a serious felony. I questioned them two weeks ago. That would affect immigration enforcement, would it not? Asking a Biden official to talk about border policy is pretty laughable, I've got to say"
Testimony PETERS, SCOTT H.
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Last November, I introduced legislation called the Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act, which will improve transparency and accountability in immigration enforcement. Immigration enforcement should protect the public, not trample on people's constitutional rights and put Americans and their communities at risk. Immigration enforcement should protect the public, not trample on people's constitutional rights and put Americans and their communities at"
Testimony PETERS, SCOTT H.
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"If Republicans want to borrow more money, these agencies must operate in a way that upholds the basic training and standards we deserve from any member of the law enforcement community, whether they're local police, sheriffs, or state police. Americans have been harmed and even killed in immigration enforcement actions. These tragedies raise serious concerns about agents' use of force, training, and oversight. We cannot continue to borrow billions of dollars from these agencies as if they have..."
Testimony PETERS, SCOTT H.
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"We also have to protect and safeguard sensitive locations. Immigration enforcement around schools, hospitals, child care facilities, and places of worship create fear and instability among families and children across the nation. Children should not have to worry about being permanently separated from their family when going to school or seeking medical care. It requires that immigration enforcement shall be conducted within the bounds of the"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"The majority brings us another partisan, red-meat, enforcement-only bill to make Trump's policies permanent. Congress has pumped an extraordinary $240 billion into immigration enforcement. And yet this committee has done no oversight of ICE and no oversight of the CBP. Republicans have not brought in a single official from either ICE or CBP or from GEO Group or CoreCivic, the private prison companies that are collecting billions of dollars from our constituents every year to operate these..."
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Even worse, this bill completely fails to address the cascade of cruelty and chaos emanating from the White House, ICE, and CPB as they carry out the Trump administration's failed immigration policies. Over the last 13 months, Congress has showered immigration enforcement agencies with $240 billion with no guardrails attached. With this money, these agencies have assembled a massive force consisting of tens of thousands of agents who have flooded our streets to carry out Donald Trump's brutal..."
Testimony SPEAKER_26
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"When immigration officers violate people's constitutional rights or physically harm people or kill people or terrorize communities, it's not an accident or an outlier. It's the Department of Homeland Security's planned policy. It's also not unique to this administration because immigration enforcement was designed to be cruel and callous and lawless. When DHS was formed, it took power away from other agencies that may have been better served to provide the individual services and stuffed them..."
Testimony SPEAKER_26
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"DHS has caused so much harm to our communities, yet Republicans keep wanting to throw money at it with no oversight mechanisms to rein in their bad actions. In the last 13 months alone, they've been given $240 billion. DHS has taken that money and hired incompetent and unqualified immigration enforcement officers. They've thrown the money at private prison corporations to expand detention centers. Six people have been killed by ICE and CBP during immigration enforcement actions, and another 53..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"fitness instructors, and maintenance technicians, and countless undocumented immigrants care for in their homes, part of a vast informal economy. Immigration enforcement is choking both labor pools. And so when you get older and you don't have anybody to take care of you, you can blame Trump and you can blame MAGA Republicans here in the House of Representatives and also in the U.S. There are a million people that the United States Supreme Court, the 6-3 MAGA majority on the"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"recognized to explain the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My amendment is about the necessity of ICE agents wearing body cameras, something which I think the vast majority of Americans and people in Congress agree to. We've watched in horror as poorly trained and out-of-control DHS and ICE officers shot more than two dozen Americans and immigrants and killed six of them, including three U.S. citizens during immigration enforcement operations since Trump has taken office. Despite these..."
Testimony HUNT, WESLEY
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"The American people elected President Donald J. Trump with a clear mandate that was to secure our border and restore the rule of law, which is exactly what he has done by putting the American citizen first. That's exactly why they permitted Trump's Secure Border Act, and I want to thank my colleague from Texas, Mr. Roy, for doing this common-sense immigration enforcement measure so we could codify this into law and to do exactly what the American people asked him to"
Testimony MR. ART DEL CUETO
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"The goal of this movements are clear DSA supports abolishing ICE and the end of all immigration detention. New York City Mayor supports abolishing ICE sitting members of Congress also agree. Make no mistake the radical anti-border crowd is increasingly setting the agenda. These are not reasonable critiques or policy alternatives. They're blatant attacks on the U.S. sovereignty and immigration enforcement itself. This type of rhetoric from our elected officials not only raises the temperature it..."
Testimony SPEAKER_09
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Desmond Domenic...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Thank you, Chairman Grassley. Is it on? Thank you, Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Durbin and members of the committee. My name is Jennifer Boss. I live in Antioch, Illinois. I'm the mother of an angel named Megan Boss and I'm here because my daughter's tragic and gruesome death has exposed catastrophic failures in immigration enforcement and drug trafficking policies. The trafficking policies. The investigation into her death continues but one truth is painfully clear. Dangerous gaps in..."
Testimony SPEAKER_29
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I want to go back to where FEMA is really out of bounds, and that is the current FEMA program is being used to support immigration enforcement by the federal government. This is wrong, it's contrary to law, and it's creating a very profound"
Testimony SPEAKER_29
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"This is wrong, it's contrary to law, and this committee has the responsibility of holding the Trump administration accountable for the misuse of FEMA, and use of FEMA to carry out the various programs that the president wants on immigration enforcement. It's not that the immigration enforcement effort is short of money. It's not that the immigration enforcement effort is short of money. This committee ought to demand that FEMA no longer be engaged with ICE in the immigration enforcement"
Testimony STANTON, GREG
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Its training pipelines, key to ensuring readiness before disaster strikes, has been severed. Its disaster declaration process has too often been politicized, denying communities needed support, and its hazard mitigation programs have been dismantled. This is on top of the fact that personnel have been detailed for extended periods for immigration enforcement operations. Whether or not you agree with the current administration's mass deportation policy, this report makes one thing"
Testimony CARBAJAL, SALUD O.
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Mr. Carbajal. Thank you very much. I look forward to getting some data from my colleague, Mr. Taylor, who I like very much, but a lot of opinions and not enough facts, and I sure hope I get that data that supports his sort of political bias that he's talking about, other than just a thought or thinking of it. So I look forward to getting that. Don't think I'll get it, but I look forward to getting that. Ms. Li-Sheng, I have heard from local governments on California's Central Coast that they're..."
Testimony SPEAKER_36
"Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation's Disaster Readiness Works for Am...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"that are in that agency. And if we're kneecapping people's ability to actually do their job by putting them out to do immigration enforcement when we actually need them responding to disasters, I think that that is a poor use of our resources. And I will once again say I will work with anyone, Democrat or Republican, to work to make FEMA an independent cabinet-level agency"
Testimony CASTRO, JOAQUIN
A New Beginning for Colombia
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I mean, I wish that we could get a clearer, more definitive answer now, but we'll have plenty of time for further conversations. Colombia currently hosts nearly 2.8 million Venezuelan migrants and has been one of the region's most successful examples of large-scale regularization and integration. However, the president-elect has suggested a greater emphasis on immigration enforcement while offering few details about future regularization pathways. Is the administration assessing the potential..."
Testimony MCCLINTOCK, TOM
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Your subcommittee on immigration integrity, security, and enforcement has held four hearings now, probing the policies of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. These policies are to shield criminal illegal aliens from deportation and instead release them back into our communities. This has nothing to do with general immigration enforcement. These policies specifically obstruct the removal of illegal aliens who have committed other crimes, are in custody, and instead of..."
Testimony MCCLINTOCK, TOM
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"the consequences can be deadly to ICE officers, to accomplices, to bystanders, and to the targets themselves. In those cases where arrests were necessitated because sanctuaries released these criminals, we'd have fewer such incidents. You cannot lament these deaths while defending the policies that caused them. Unless, of course, your alternative is to stop enforcing immigration laws altogether and return to the Biden days of open wide borders. I applaud our colleague Nick LaLotta for his..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"And again, there's video that contradicts much of this. DHS agents have shot and killed six people only during immigration enforcement actions since the beginning of the second Trump administration. There have been 53 deaths in detention since Trump came into"
Testimony GARCÍA, JESÚS G. "CHUY"
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"these Republicans love to talk about big government don't tread on me what hypocrisy all they've done is send tax dollars to mass lawless death squads that are murdering citizens and non-citizens with impunity and racially profiling on steroids immigrant communities this resolution is a joke no matter how hard they try Republicans cannot get around the fact that local jurisdictions are not required to cooperate in immigration enforcement without a warrant that's due process and the fact that..."
Testimony GARCÍA, JESÚS G. "CHUY"
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"disproportionate amount of federal prosecutions are of low-level immigration cases state and local prosecutions prosecute people for violent offenses regardless of their immigration status this is a pathetic stunt that reveals the total failure of Republicans to do anything to make life better for working families the public knows it and no matter how hard they try no matter how many terrible anti-immigrant bills we mark up in this committee including whatever nonsense they come up with next..."
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Earlier this week, Juan Sebastian Guerrero was killed in another fatal ICE-involved shooting in Maine. I'm not here to debate immigration policy or how immigration enforcement has been conducted by this administration. My questions are specific to law enforcement policy and best"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Oversight Hearing - Office of Management and Budget
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"The 2027 budget builds on the President's vision by continuing to restrain non-defense spending and reform the federal government. The budget proposes a 10% cut to non-defense levels. Within this total, the budget maintains investments in border security, immigration enforcement, delivers on the President's commitment to support law enforcement and combat violent crime with a 13% increase to the Department of Justice, and honors the nation's sacred obligation to military"
Testimony CORREA, J. LUIS
“Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"we face similar challenges. Arms trafficking, drug mules, human smugglers, and terrorists attempting to cross the northern border to and from Canada, both north and south. And Democrats, I would say, my Republican colleagues, I believe, we're committed to upholding the lawful security and secure northern border. But what we will not support, however, are immigration enforcement agencies using unnecessarily aggressive tactics on American citizens or putting their health at risk. Let me repeat,..."
Testimony THOMPSON, BENNIE G.
“Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Combined, that's more than seven years' worth of funding for these agencies in less than a year. For the past year and a half, Democrats have advocated for comprehensive and common-sense reforms to DHS immigration enforcement. And at every turn, Trump, DHS, and Congressional Republicans have booked every attempt toward change and reform. But while Republicans bury their head in the sand and turn a blind eye to this harmful agenda, Democrats will call attention to the abuses and hold this..."
Testimony SPEAKER_08
“Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"OFO plays a critical role in safeguarding U.S. borders. Our ports of entry, essential for lawful commerce and travel, are constantly targeted by transnational criminal organizations and others seeking to exploit the high volume of cross-border activity. Along our nation's northern border, dedicated OFO personnel stationed at 118 border crossings safeguard our homeland, enforce immigration and trade laws, and ensure the efficient flow of lawful trade and commerce. Within this complex..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
“Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"Thank you, Chairman. Director Kroll, how many HSI agents has the Trump administration diverted away from working child exploitation cases to instead work on civil immigration enforcement? – You are the assistant director of operations at HSI, yes? Okay, but you don't know how many of your agents have been taken off child exploitation cases to do immigration"
Hearing Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the U.S. Provider Landscape
house Health Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript
FLETCHER, LIZZIE "And since this new rule has been implemented, health care professionals have reported an influx of immigration enforcement agents in hospitals, and that the presence of these agents roaming the hospitals has left many people scared to go there. And recently, federal health officials agreed to give immigration enforcement officials access to a Medicaid database that includes enrollees' addresses and citizenship status. And despite a court challenge, the courts are allowing this policy to move"
Hearing “Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · May 14, 2026 · Transcript
JANE STOEVER "It absolutely undermines trust. When you have law enforcement and the line between law enforcement and immigration enforcement blurred, when you call the police, you don't know when they show up at your door. Are they there to help or to deport"
Hearing H.R. 8800 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
house Armed Services Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_34 "Second, it would protect the sanctity of our military-civilian divide and prevent the abuse of our men and women, of sending them into positions of conducting civilian law enforcement operations and politically contentious immigration enforcement proceedings. And the third is it would make sure that immigration judges actually remain the highly"
Hearing “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
GARCÍA, JESÚS G. "CHUY" "But it ran into problems, didn't it? They divert law enforcement resources from combating white nationalism to low-level immigration enforcement. They accused the SPLC of being anti-Christian, for opposing anti-abortion, anti-LGBT"
Hearing “Peace of Mind: Strengthening Victim Protections Under Kayleigh’s Law”
house Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "Office on Violence Against Women be consolidated with other offices within the DOJ, despite explicit statutory language requiring that the office exist as a standalone entity. Trump has also taken a wrecking ball to the federal government's capacity to investigate and prosecute criminals, including those who commit sex crimes. DOJ is hemorrhaging thousands of lawyers and having a hard time recruiting replacements. Data from ICE reveal that in 2025, an astounding 14,500 federal law enforcement officers were diverted from their regular roles in investigating and prosecuting crimes to assist..."
Hearing H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_20 "If Trump cared about public safety, he would not pardon a major cocaine trafficker. And if the Trump administration cared about public safety, it would allow federal law enforcement to work on gun prosecutions and child exploitation cases instead of pulling them off to work only on immigration enforcement. But this bill is not about public safety. It's a dangerous bill that gives the Trump administration unfettered power to deport someone without proof of"
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS”
house Homeland Security Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_18 "Yes, sir. I appreciate the question. Well, unfortunately, there's a misnomer that ICE is just a civil enforcement agency, and that's completely wrong. ICE enforces over 400 criminal statutes as well. Special agents, especially with the Homeland Security investigations, they're consistently out there doing human trafficking cases, drug cases, terrorism cases. We do encounter U.S. citizens, and those who do commit federal crimes are arrested. But under Title VIII, no U.S. citizen is subject to civil immigration enforcement, and that just doesn't happen. There are multiple safeguards in that..."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and the Fiscal Year 2027 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "driving their Children to school, living their lives killed by illegal aliens who had already been in local custody or who are or who were already known to law enforcement and who were released back onto our streets without so much as a phone call to federal immigration authorities. These are real families torn apart by tragedies that were entirely preventable. Each and every life taken by an illegal alien in this country is a preventable death. They should not be here in the first place. And when local governments actively obstruct federal law enforcement from doing their jobs, they become..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Desmond Domenico, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit,...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_09 "Thank you, Chairman Grassley. Is it on? Thank you, Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Durbin and members of the committee. My name is Jennifer Boss. I live in Antioch, Illinois. I'm the mother of an angel named Megan Boss and I'm here because my daughter's tragic and gruesome death has exposed catastrophic failures in immigration enforcement and drug trafficking policies. The trafficking policies. The investigation into her death continues but one truth is painfully clear. Dangerous gaps in our system allowed an illegal alien to exploit our laws and my daughter paid the ultimate price...."
Hearing A New Beginning for Colombia
house Western Hemisphere Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
CASTRO, JOAQUIN "I mean, I wish that we could get a clearer, more definitive answer now, but we'll have plenty of time for further conversations. Colombia currently hosts nearly 2.8 million Venezuelan migrants and has been one of the region's most successful examples of large-scale regularization and integration. However, the president-elect has suggested a greater emphasis on immigration enforcement while offering few details about future regularization pathways. Is the administration assessing the potential impacts of these policy shifts on U.S. migration"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
PADILLA, ALEX "Earlier this week, Juan Sebastian Guerrero was killed in another fatal ICE-involved shooting in Maine. I'm not here to debate immigration policy or how immigration enforcement has been conducted by this administration. My questions are specific to law enforcement policy and best"
Hearing Oversight Hearing - Office of Management and Budget
house Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_03 "The 2027 budget builds on the President's vision by continuing to restrain non-defense spending and reform the federal government. The budget proposes a 10% cut to non-defense levels. Within this total, the budget maintains investments in border security, immigration enforcement, delivers on the President's commitment to support law enforcement and combat violent crime with a 13% increase to the Department of Justice, and honors the nation's sacred obligation to military"
Hearing “Examining Threats to ICE Operations”
house Oversight Subcommittee · May 20, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Scott Mechkowski, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Hearing “Sanctuary Jurisdictions: Magnet for Migrants, Cover for Criminals”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Apr 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: RJ Hauman, National Immigration Center for Enforcement
Hearing Budget Hearing – Department of Homeland Security: CBP, ICE, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
house Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee · Apr 16, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Todd Lyons, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Hearing “Enhancing Federal, State, and Local Coordination in the Fight Against Criminal Illegal Aliens”
house Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee · Mar 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Ms. Kerry Doyle, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Committee Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee
house Judiciary Committee