What specifically are you and others seeking around these accountability measures for
agents that are part of these enforcement activities?
Well, thanks for asking for, Jacob.
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 their First Amendment rights and they get
arrested for that.
Have a probable cause.
No masks.
I mean, regular uniforms, not black hoodies and masks on their faces.
How about having an 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 police officers be given their 10th
Amendment authority to intervene when ICE has gone to foreign there being unreasonable.
We want state and local oversight and coordination in these arrests.
Police in Wisconsin have the right to prosecute ICE officers if they are using unreasonable
force.
We want body camberts being used to record what's happening, not to track people, but
to record what's happening and certainly no paramilitary police who 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.
Why did the 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?
I'll tell you, 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 snag in 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 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 their you 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 not just and they were not five year old kids being scooped up in order
to manipulate their parents into presenting themselves to be arrested.
This is common.
This is how hard could it be to come to some agreement around common sense, a common sense
agenda, just regular order.
How about regular policing?
That's what we're asking for.
Such 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 the 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, let me just 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 sick offense
want to do.
I am so happy that Fulton County, Georgia is suing the president over the seizure, the
FBI seizure of their records.
And I'm sad to think that the Justice Department that they are appealing to are a bunch of,
you know, Trump cronies.
At some point, 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,
that have authority, arresting powers and authorities in our jurisdictions, as well
as securing our voting operations.
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 5050 Democrat Republican.
Everybody knows that this is the purple list of the purple states.
That's why we saw all the candidates congregate in here during the election, because this
was high on this.
This is a prize to either side.
And yet in Congress, you got poor men part of Spokane holding it down for the Democrats.
And there is a 6 to 2 majority for Republicans.
And you know what?
In a 5050 state, 6 to 2, the math just ain't math, and Treasury does.
All right.
Congresswoman Gwen Moore, we leave it there.
Thanks very much.
Thank you.
I thought that last, I thought that last line was funny.
Well, she got my staff.