>> 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,
Fredricka. Always good to be with you.
>> So why did you vote no. On the stopgap spending for
Homeland Security? >> Well, Frederica, 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 stopgap.
When it came back to the House, I truly expected it
to have an opportunity to vote on 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,
you know, you know, rogue forces were operating. And
of course, as you mentioned, they killed two people. And,
and 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 to to
vote and stick a pin in this to, to to not do so.
>> 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 me. Really common sense
things. Anything that any American would expect, 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. We want them to have no masks. I
mean, this is horrifying. You know, Frederica, would
any of us tolerate masked people not in uniform, but
just dark clothes and hoodies to come up and and
and kidnap us require some identification. What?
What's wrong with a badge and a badge number? 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 cameras being used to record what's
happening, not to track people, but to record
what's 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, you know, Kim Bondy has drawn up, but
a warrant, a warrant signed by a judge.
>> In 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?
>> We wouldn't have a snag in the system if, in fact,
they were going after the people they said they were
going after. Got God bless every Ice agent that finds
a rapists and murderers and folks like that who have
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 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 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 some. 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. >> 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 infrequently
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 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. But 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 segregation purposes. But
the 10th Amendment clearly talks about a couple of
things, like our right, for example, to have authority,
resting 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 at all likely ahead of the
midterms, is it? >> Oh, absolutely. I would
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 this is
the purplest of the purple states. That's why we saw
all the candidates congregating here during
the election because this was high on this, this this
is a prize to either side. And yet in Congress you got
poor men. Park Pocan 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 Frederica.
>> All right, Congresswoman >> All right, Congresswoman