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Forum speakers urge Congress to investigate ICE after allegations of shootings and other abuses
Summary
At a forum hosted by Oversight Committee Democrats, witnesses and speakers urged Congress to investigate ICE and Border Patrol after allegations of excessive force, including testimony that a border agent shot a woman five times and calls to freeze agency funding until public investigations are completed.
Unidentified Speaker 1 (Questioner) opened a public forum hosted by Oversight Committee Democrats by accusing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of "terrorizing our communities," and urged Congress to impose new rules and accountability measures on ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The hearing included firsthand and secondhand accounts of alleged excessive force. In an exchange directed at Miss Martinez, the questioner recounted Martinez's account that "last October, you were driving in your car when a border patrol agent rammed the back…
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