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We’ve got to get an FBI that is back focused on protecting the homeland.

We have to get an FBI that is back focused on protecting the homeland.

We know, in all of the offices, they've taken these FBI agents off their critical cases and put them on immigration enforcement.

I want to find out how this guy was able to still be on the loose.

I believe, while there may not be a direct relationship here, we know, in all of the offices, they've taken these FBI agents off their critical cases and put them on immigration enforcement.

This is a war of choice.

We've got to get an FBI that is back focused on protecting the homeland.

I think the job was supposed to be the FBI. And, unfortunately, under this FBI director, Kash Patel, he has fired many of the top counterterrorism folks.

This is a war of choice. And if you just go through quickly, the president said there were going to be four goals.

He sees the political winds turning against him, and he's going to try to interfere in the 2026 election.

The newly unsealed affidavit shows this search originated from the frivolous claims of Kurt Olsen, an attorney who traffics in debunked falsehoods about the 2020 election.

But I guess what I want to just spend a couple of minutes on is, why in the heck has the Trump administration been hitting the District of Columbia so unrelentingly? Let's look back. Just as downtown was starting to recover from the…

We've seen ICE discriminate against Latinos' families. We've seen as well mixed families where someone may be legal and others not.

This is uncharted territory, and yet you've got the president's own words, in many ways, raising concerns, because he says, well, gosh, we Republicans ought to take over elections in 15 states.

There is a very real threat, without reforms at ICE, that you could have ICE patrols around polling stations.

My fear is, now he sees the political winds turning against him, and he's going to try to interfere in the 2026 election, something a year ago I didn't think would be possible.

I believe immigrants are a strength and not a problem. That doesn't mean there aren't issues that we need to resolve, but I think it is high time that people in this Chamber talked about immigrants to this country and recognized the…

I think it is time--not just because of the shutdown--it is time to advance these bills to the President's desk. I appreciate that colleagues are recognizing what we need to do is advance those bills and then focus in a very intense…