Dem Rep Thinks Migrants Who Came To US Illegally ‘Did Not Commit Any Crimes’

Democrat Virginia Rep. Suhas Subramanyam stated during a Monday town hall that illegal immigrants who are being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have not committed any crimes.

Subramanyam distinguished between the Laken Riley Act, which mandates that federal immigration authorities detain illegal immigrants who committed theft-related crimes, and the arrests of illegal immigrants who allegedly did not commit any crimes. The congressman accused ICE of approaching innocent illegal immigrants and arresting them despite no crime being committed, despite them having entered the U.S. illegally in the first place.

“I think that’s different than going up to people without telling them what they’ve done, in masks, and putting them in detention facilities. And I think the people that are being approached did not commit any crimes, weren’t even suspected of any crimes,” Subramanyam said. “They’re going to workplaces, restaurants, they’re going to churches, courthouses … I think that’s very different, which is why I have been very much pushing back forcefully on what ICE is doing now.”

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