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Representative Crockett presses DHS on treatment of migrant children, alleges constitutional violations
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Representative Crockett criticized federal immigration enforcement and questioned whether Department of Homeland Security policies protect constitutional rights, citing the detention of a 5-year-old at the Dilley facility and asking a DHS official whether use-of-force policies are followed in practice.
Representative Crockett used allotted time to sharply criticize federal immigration enforcement and to question whether the Department of Homeland Security is applying its written safeguards in practice.
"It is so hard to sit in allegedly power positions yet see this happening in my country every single day," Crockett said, accusing federal officials of "abdicate[ing] their oaths and their duties" and of "decid[ing] that instead of following the law or the Constitution, they want to follow a single man." She said the First, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments "have all been thrown out of the window by this administration."
Crockett cited several specific claims as examples of the harm she said enforcement…
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