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Thursday on MS NOW\u2019s \u201cThe Last Word,\u201d Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was building Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into an army \u201cthat\u2019s going to be policing American streets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schiff said, \u201cWe wanted to go through DHS contracting records and document just how much they\u2019re spending to militarize this new, you know, effectively new police forces, palace guard of the presidents that is wreaking such havoc in our cities. And we found dramatic increases in spending on weapons, as you said, ICE agents will be equipped with now 3 to 4 times the amount of weapons as the previous year. Customs and Border Protection doubling their expenditure on the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cI think what we\u2019re seeing is a dangerous combination of a much more heavily armed immigration, law enforcement, complex. At the same time, we heard whistleblower testimony this week that they\u2019ve cut the training for these new ICE agents. And they\u2019re getting inadequate training on when to use these weapons and how to use these weapons. That is a really dangerous mix. And we wanted to sound the alarm with this report that we\u2019re seeing the emergence of a kind of law enforcement or immigration enforcement industrial complex, because it\u2019s not just the weapons. We\u2019re seeing dramatic increases in expenditures on detention centers. They want to build around the country. And this is a way of gathering its own momentum. And we need to be aware of what\u2019s happening, that we\u2019re building a not small army now, that\u2019s going to be policing American streets.\u201d<\/p>\n
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