Teresa Leger Fernandez: “We should absolutely hold immigrants accountable when they commit a crime, especially when it is against a law…”

“We should absolutely hold immigrants accountable when they commit a crime, especially when it is against a law enforcement officer. However, there are already existing laws for the detention and deportation of immigrants who commit violent crimes. What we are talking about today is that we must hold convicted felons accountable for attacking our very own Capitol Police. In this very building, January 6 insurrectionists brutally attacked our Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers. More than 140 cops suffered injuries and went to the hospital. Five police officers died. President Trump just pardoned the violent thugs who were convicted of those attacks. It is ``shameless,'' ``sin verguenza,'' as we say in Spanish. If Republicans were truly concerned about attacks on law enforcement, they would denounce those pardons. We just heard about the violence that was inflicted and about the violent offenders who committed them. I am asking my Republican colleagues to also keep in mind the faces and the names of those who were brutally attacked. When the majority walked into this building and they walked past those Capitol Police who are protecting them today, do they tell them: Good morning? They should also tell them: I am sorry. I am sorry that my President pardoned the people who beat you. I am sorry, and I denounce those attacks because I honor you. However, they do not seem to have the courage to say I am sorry to those police officers.…”