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Witness says ICE agents threatened to 'blow your head off,' calls for agency overhaul
Summary
A witness told Oversight Committee Democrats that ICE officers threatened to kill her while she attended a horse race in Idaho with her children, that they said they could better care for her kids, and urged arrest, investigation and dismantling of the agency.
A witness told a panel convened by Oversight Committee Democrats that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers threatened to "blow your head off" while she was at a horse race in Idaho with her children and that the officers told her they could "take better care" of her kids than she could.
The witness confirmed the phrasing when asked by a questioner and said the officers used the words, "we're going to effing blow your head off," calling the language "disgusting." She said the encounter left her "angry and scared" and that she wanted to immediately retrieve her children.
The testimony included an appeal for law enforcement action and broader policy change. The witness said she is an American citizen and said, "I believe we need to arrest and investigate these ICE agents, hold them accountable." She went on to call for structural change, saying the agency "has violated people's rights since it was founded" and that "we need to tear down this agency, and we need to start afresh with a totally different agency to actually uphold people's rights."
The transcript does not record any response from ICE or a formal investigation being announced during the session. The committee did not state a next procedural step in the provided transcript.
