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Representative criticizes ICE actions and objects to how the House handled memorial resolutions
Summary
A House member criticized federal immigration enforcement and condemned the chamber's handling of competing memorial resolutions, urging members to stop invoking religion to justify policy positions.
During the announcements period, a representative sharply criticized actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and objected to the chamber's calendar choices for memorial resolutions.
The representative, recognized by the presiding officer as Representative Jones, said a routine resolution honoring Renee Goode had been blocked from the calendar by the Republican caucus chairman while another resolution honoring Charlie Kirk remained on the calendar. "I just think it's very shameful," the representative said and urged colleagues to stop "bringing God into your mess and inciting him in oppression and in violence." He accused ICE agents of "terrorizing the American people, kidnapping folks from the street, killing folks in the street" and alleged sexual assault by some agents; those charged assertions were not countered on the floor in the transcript.
The remarks were part of a broader set of announcements and did not produce a formal motion or floor action during the session. The comments were raised during announcements rather than as part of a formal debate or committee report.
