She's still working on
something.
But no problem, you're trying to
make you look good, Frederica, you
look great.
It would
not be hard to make you look good.
You look great.
I love, as always, your glasses.
Ha, ha, ha.
I wish I could do that.
No, do you need a minute or no?
Fred is checking.
I can't tell.
Representative Moore, do you need a
minute, or should we go ahead?
Give us about, just give us one
minute here. One minute.
Okay.
She doesn't.
I mean the key point is that it's a
state that is split 50-50, but
it's represented in Congress 75-25.
Got you.
All right.
I have some arms.
That's fine, I'm good, just like
that.
I'm afraid my paper is going to be
for everyone.
You're fine.
Okay.
Mark, put the back in and let me
hear you start.
They don't let me do any of this on
my own, Frederica.
Not like the good old state
legislative days when I could
just talk
without any prep.
Just, you know, my staff let me
say whatever I wanted to say.
Not so much anymore.
I think you can be
well trusted, but
I don't work in those circles,
so I don t know how
that goes.
We are ready to record.
Okay, you're set.
I think that in seventy four.
Stand by then.
In Washington, Democrats could
block funding for Homeland Security
when it expires next Friday
unless there are, in their
words, dramatic changes to
how immigration operations are
conducted.
This comes in the aftermath of the
deaths of two protesters in the
midst of the enforcement surge in
Minneapolis.
In Wisconsin, all six Republican
members of Congress voted this week
for the StopGap two-week spending
plan.
Both Democratic House members in
Wisconsin voted against,
including U.S.
Representative Gwen Moore of
Milwaukee.
She joins us now from Washington,
and thanks very much for being here.
Oh, thanks for having me, Virginia,
always good to be with you.
So why did you vote no on the
stopgap spending for Homeland
Security?
Well, Frederick, I was being very
consistent. I voted against the
bill when
it passed the House and went on
to the Senate.
The Senate then, Senate Dems,
managed to create a
negotiation where they split the
bills, theoretically,
five bills to
pass as is, and the Homeland
Security bill to
have a two-week stop
gap.
When it came back to the House,
I truly expected to
have an opportunity to vote
separately on the other
five bills in Homeland Security.
But I had exactly one vote, and I
decided to stick with my initial
vote because of
the egregious way that
these rogue
forces were
operating.
And of course, as you mentioned,
they killed two people.
And further,
they've jailed children,
American citizens,
destroyed property,
and just terrorized
our communities.
And I just couldn't, in good
conscience, knowing that I
had an opportunity to vote,
stick a pin in this,
to not do so.
So what specifically are you
and others seeking around
accountability measures for these
federal agents and these immigration
enforcement actions?
Regina, it's really common sense
stuff.
I mean, it is really targeted
enforcement.
I mean what happened to probable
cause?
You know, you probably, you think
this person is probably a murderer
or a rapist or
a robber.
You have, you've investigated
it and you know, you might
make a mistake, but this
is probably the person that you're
looking for.
You just don't stand around the
airport and arrest anybody who's
there.
You know, because they look
like they're Somali or they're
brown, or, and
you certainly don't arrest
them because they are
a bystander blowing a whistle
saying, ice, get out of here.
We want them to have no masks.
I mean, this is horrifying, you
know.
Virginia, would any of us
tolerate masked people,
not in uniform,
but just dark clothes and hoodies
to come up and kidnap
us?
Require some identification.
What's wrong with a badge and a
badge number?
What just happened?
I have a system.