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Eric Schmitt: No. What is their way? They demand we defund law enforcement Agencies like ICE and CBP. They demand we force ICE agents…

On the recordJanuary 28, 2026
No. What is their way? They demand we defund law enforcement Agencies like ICE and CBP. They demand we force ICE agents to dox themselves so that their families can be harassed and threatened in their homes. They demand that we cripple Federal law enforcement's ability to enforce our immigration laws. This is not about oversight; it is about paralysis. And the objective is mass amnesty, rewarding those who broke the law and punishing the men and women sworn to enforce it. My colleagues on the left are smart enough to know about the trail of American victims that mass immigration has left in its wake, but they made a conscious decision to sneer and roll their eyes and pretend like it is all just a hysterical rightwing fantasy to advance their agenda. What is really going on here? Well, it is a desperate and intentional thirst for power at all costs--padding their numbers by importing new voters and illegally adding people to the census rolls to distort congressional apportionment in the electoral college, even if Americans are less safe and it destroys our way of life in the process. I want my Republican colleagues in particular to hear me on this. Nobody wants to see American citizens being shot and killed. On a basic human level, it is a tragedy. Every time a life is lost, it is a tragedy. The lives lost in Minnesota have been tragic.…
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Eric Schmitt
Republican · Missouri

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Addressing concerns about immigration policy and law enforcement during a floor speech.

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