Tag: oversight
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ICE’s own agents asked to leave ICE in 2018. Congress gave it $110 billion instead.
In 2018, nineteen of ICE’s own top agents wrote a letter to their boss asking to be split off from ICE. These weren’t protesters. They were the special agents in charge of Homeland Security Investigations – the part of ICE that chases child predators, drug cartels, and human traffickers. They told the Secretary of Homeland…
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Crime prevention doesn’t need new laws. It needs the money Congress already promised.
Let’s talk about crime prevention, because it’s the question I get asked most in Memphis, and the honest answer starts with what a freshman member of Congress can and can’t do. Here’s the thing – a first-term representative doesn’t walk in and pass landmark legislation. Seniority runs the committees, leadership runs the floor, and a…