Nydia Velázquez: “I want to commend the Treasury Department on yesterday's announcement sanctioning the virtual currency exchanges…”

When agents hide their faces and identities they create chaos, fear, and open the door to abuse.

Republicans want to cut vital food and healthcare support programs to pay for a tax cut for billionaires and large corporations. The GOP wants working families to pay for their billionaire handouts.

We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges—and we shouldn't accept it from ICE either.

I urge my colleagues not to engage in knee-jerk reactions that set back our real progress toward creating a more equitable criminal justice system.