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Chris Murphy: “How do you defend an agency that was told to stop acting illegally, and on 100 occasions, when reading the court order…”

On the recordJune 1, 2026
How do you defend an agency that was told to stop acting illegally, and on 100 occasions, when reading the court order, just said, ‘forget it. We are not obeying what the court tells us to do.’
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Questioning the legality of ICE's actions.

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