Jimmy Gomez

Mr. Speaker, Claims · 50 words13 months ago, when Trump’s immigration raids began in my district, I warned exactly where this was headed. I warned that if ICE agents were allowed to operate without accountability, the violence would escalate. I warned that people would die. I didn’t want to be right, but here we are. Positioning · 47 wordsThis isn’t normal. This isn’t law enforcement. This is lawlessness: no due process and no Miranda rights. Instead, some in Trump’s ICE are acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is what happens when people who wear the badge are told that rules don’t apply to them.Positioning Claims · 43 wordsOver the last year, we witnessed ICE become more violent, more reckless, Unearned certaintyand more deadly. We witnessed masked agents jump out of unmarked vehicles. We witnessed people tackled, beaten, and shot. We have even seen children used as bait to detain their parents. The question · 10 wordsWhat has this administration done? What have congressional Republicans done? Positioning · 11 wordsNot a darn thing: no accountability, no transparency, and no consequences.Positioning Claims · 11 wordsLast week, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo left work and never came home.¹ Anecdote · 55 wordsHis son, Ronaldo, said something every Member of this Chamber should hear: ²``He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of `Mexican man shot and killed by ICE.’ He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father, and a job creator.’’Anecdote Claims · 17 wordsThen, yesterday, a little girl in Maine watched her father’s lifeless body being carried away by ICE.³ Positioning · 12 wordsThink about that, Mr. Speaker: two fathers and two families are shattered.Positioning Claims · 53 wordsIn both cases, ICE wasn’t even targeting the men who died. ICE claims these men used their vehicles as weapons, ⁴but local news video tells a different story. It shows unmarked vehicles following them. It shows what happens before the shootings. It shows that ICE wasn’t wearing body cameras, despite its own policies.⁵ Positioning · 15 wordsThis administration is asking Americans not to believe our own eyes over and over again.Positioning Claims · 26 wordsThat is not acceptable. What is even more unacceptable is that my Republican colleagues have watched this happen and responded by giving ICE billions more dollars.⁶ The question · 18 wordsHow many more families have to bury a loved one before Republicans admit that something is deeply wrong? Positioning · 37 wordsThe truth is they know it is wrong.Unearned certainty They are just too afraid to say it. They are too afraid of Donald Trump and too afraid of political consequences. I know, and they know, where this leads.Positioning Claims · 65 wordsWhen these raids began in Los Angeles, I flew immediately back from Washington to conduct oversight and protect my communities.⁷ When the Trump administration tried to block me from inspecting ICE detention centers, I sued them and won.⁸ I have trained legal observers to document ICE abuses, organized townhalls, ⁹and introduced legislation to reclaim Trump’s $175 billion ICE slush fund and put it into housing.¹⁰ The ask · 6 wordsEvery Representative here has a choice. Positioning · 24 wordsThey can keep writing blank checks for fear and abuse, or they can join us in saying enough--enough lawlessness, enough brutality, and enough deaths.Positioning Claims · 21 wordsWe warned this country what would happen. We warned that, without accountability, violence would escalate. We warned that people would die. Promise · 27 wordsNow, hear this warning: If you committed a crime, if you violated the Constitution, if you thought your badge put you above the law, you are wrong. Positioning · 11 wordsWe are watching. The American people are watching. History is watching.Positioning Promise · 17 wordsNo matter who you are or the title you hold, you will be prosecuted.Vague promise Accountability is coming.Vague promise