[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 193 (Monday, November 17, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4699]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TAKE ICE OUT OF MEMPHIS

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I had a community meeting this weekend and 
met with some folks in Memphis. The issues that they were most 
interested in were immigration, ICE. They were very concerned about the 
people from ICE with masks on their faces mistreating people. They were 
dragging them out of cars, stomping on their heads, and arresting them.
  We have seen oftentimes they have done that to American citizens, and 
they did it in error.
  They were also concerned about the immigrants who were taken out of 
our community who do so much good in our community.
  I am writing a letter to Kristi Noem and reminding her that she said 
they were going to get the worst of the worst: the murderers, the 
rapists, and the sexual offenders.
  She is not doing that. They have decided they are going to get 
anybody who is in the country improperly, and that is wrong.
  I will write the Trump administration and ask them to take ICE out of 
Memphis. It shouldn't be part of this surge they have to help us with 
our crime problem.
  Hispanic immigrants are not part of our crime problem. If they were, 
he would go after one or two of them and not so many.
  Get to the business of taking care of Memphis and not eliminating and 
deporting people who help our society and our community.

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