What specifically are you and others
seeking around these accountability
measures for agents
that are part of these enforcement
activities?
Well, thanks for asking, Fredericka.
I mean, really common sense things.
Anything that any American would
expect and
how they would want to be treated
as a citizen or not.
First of all, targeted enforcement.
Have probable cause to
stop someone not stop someone
because they are speaking spanish
or because they look like a
somali or they look brown
or god forbid that
they be a protester that's
exerting exerting their first
amendment rights and they get
arrested for that have a probable
cause um
no masks i mean regular
uniforms not black
hoodies and masks on
their faces. How about having ID
to identify
yourself as part of Homeland
Security?
How about upholding
the use of force standards,
reasonable force,
and not force beyond what's
necessary?
In Wisconsin,
police officers,
we would like to see.
Uh, police officers be
given their 10th amendment authority
to intervene when
ICE has gone to foreign there being
unreasonable.
Uh, we want state
and local oversight and
coordination, uh, in these
arrests.
Um, police in
Wisconsin have the right
to prosecute
ICE officers if they
are using unreasonable
force.
We want body cameras being
used to record what's happening, not
to track people, but to record
what's up happening and
certainly no paramilitary
police. We want people trained as
in regular law enforcement
duties and standards.
And we want them
to have a judicial
warrant.
In order to be able to
arrest them.
Not an administrative warrant,
not something that Kim
Bondi has drawn
up, but a
warrant signed by a judge.
In terms of
judicial warrants instead of
administrative warrants, I've heard
some Republicans say that
the requirement of
having judges sign off would
cause gridlock in the system and
dramatically slow this
process.
What about that?
OK, I'll tell you,
you know.
Democrats have long
sought immigration reform
where we have enough administrative
judges in order to
be able to not
have a snag in the system, but
that being said, we wouldn't have
snagging the system if in fact
they were going after the people
they said they were going after.
God bless every
ICE agent that finds a rapist.
And murderers and
folks like that who have
breached our borders, but
to just round people up and
to have a quota so
that if they see you and I together,
they decide to round us up so
they can get their quota that day.
None of that.
They are creating the
gridlock with these aggressive
paramilitary
activities.
What are your expectations
for quick agreement around
these measures that you call for?
These are not extraordinary things.
I mean, these are common sense
things.
I mean some of the worst criminals
in the history of this country
have not
been confronted by agents
with masks on and
hoodies.
They have been arrested
given they're told what their
rights are and
they're being reassured.
That they're being arrested by
people who have the authority to do
it. And they've been arrested
because there was probable cause
that they, in fact,
were the people that they were
seeking.
Um, not just some, and they were not
five year old kids being
scooped up, uh, in
order to manipulate their
parents into presenting themselves
to be arrested.
This is common.
This.
How hard could it be to
come to some agreement around common
sense?
A common sense agenda,
just regular order.
How about regular old leasing?
That's what we're asking for.
Which reaction to the borders are
pulling 700 officers out
of Minneapolis and the president
saying that he would like to
call for a softer touch?
Well, I
am happy that they are pulling 700
people out of Minnesota.
I am so proud of Minnesotans
who stood up in
10, 15 below zero
weather and protested,
because pushback is
the only thing that works with a
bully.
And so what
MinnesOTans have demonstrated
for us as Americans
is that we cannot allow
them to do this.
I wanted to get your take
on the president calling to
federalize elections.
Do you think Wisconsin and
especially Milwaukee could be a
target of that?
Well, just let me say the
Constitution, which the
president seems to readily and
often and frequently ignore,
says that states shall
run the elections.
So this is yet
another unconstitutional
thing that President Trump
and his sycophants want to
do. I am so happy
that Fulton County, Georgia is
suing the president.
Uh, over the seizure,
the FBI seizure of their records.
Uh, and I'm sad to think
that the justice department
that they are
appealing to, uh,
are a bunch of, you
know, Trump cronies, but
at some point, uh
I hope that the Supreme Court will
uphold the 10th Amendment,
the Supremacy Clause, which
Republicans have often relied
upon.
For their segregational
purposes, but the 10th
Amendment clearly talks
about a couple of things, like
our right, for example, to have
authority,
arresting powers and
authorities in our
jurisdictions, as well as
securing our
voting operation.
On another note, you've also been
calling for the Wisconsin Supreme
Court to act on congressional
redistricting, but resolution,
isn't that all likely ahead
of the midterms, is it?
Oh, absolutely,
I am calling on the jurists
to look at this
before our
midterm elections with all
haste as we see
the president
trying to steal the 2026
election.
You know, here we are in
a state that's
50-50 Democrat-Republican.
Everybody knows that this is
the purplest of the purple
state.
That's why we saw all the candidates
congregating here during
the election, because this
was high on, this
is a prize to either
side. And yet, in
Congress, you got poor man,
Park Pocan, holding
it down for the Democrats.
And there is a six to two
majority
for Republicans.
And you know what, in a 50-50 state,
Six to two, the math
just ain't mathin', Friedrich does.
Congresswoman Gwen Moore, we leave
it there. Thanks very much.
Thank you.
I thought that last line was funny.
I forgot my staff.