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Lawmaker urges not to conflate immigrants with criminals, cites Jan. 6 rioters
Summary
A lawmaker told the Judiciary: House Committee that immigrants should not be lumped into a single category and contrasted public responses to criminality by citing those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
A lawmaker told the Judiciary: House Committee that immigrants should not be treated as a single category and criticized narratives that conflate immigration status with criminality. "There are all kinds of immigrants with all kinds of status, so let's not try and lump immigrants into 1 kind of bucket to push a very perverse narrative about who immigrants are," the lawmaker said.
The lawmaker then turned to the subject of criminals, specifically citing those who "stormed the Capitol on January 6." The speaker said he had "not heard anybody say round these people up and put them in jail" and asserted that "I have heard people say give them restitution, give them a job working for ICE, give them a car and a bonus and all of this." The provided transcript does not record any formal motion or vote related to these remarks.
