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Survivors testify to alleged ICE/CBP abuses as committee tables subpoena for senior aides
Summary
Four U.S. citizens testified at a House Homeland Security minority-day hearing that ICE and CBP agents used excessive force, wrongful detention and intimidation; members debated subpoenas for senior administration aides, and the committee tabled a motion to subpoena Steven Miller and Tom Hman in a 15–14 recorded vote.
Witnesses told the House Committee on Homeland Security on a minority-day panel that they were shot, pepper-sprayed, choked or unlawfully detained by federal immigration agents, and several lawmakers said the testimony underscored an urgent need for oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.
The four witnesses — Marimar Martinez, Pastor David Black, George Rees and Ryan Ecklund — described separate episodes in which they said U.S. immigration agents used force against people who were, in each case, U.S. citizens. Lawmakers spent the second half of the session debating whether to subpoena senior administration aides tied to immigration policy; Representative M. Ramirez moved to subpoena Steven Miller and Thomas Hman, but a motion to table the subpoena prevailed in a 15–14 recorded vote.
Marimar Martinez, a Chicago teaching assistant who identified herself to the committee as a U.S. citizen, said a Border Patrol vehicle swerved into her lane, agents opened…
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