[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 5 (Thursday, January 8, 2026)]
[House]
[Pages H230-H231]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HOLDING ICE ACCOUNTABLE

  (Mr. CASTEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CASTEN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday ICE murdered an American citizen. 
Renee Good was a wife and a mother who has now become ICE's latest 
victim. To those at DHS and in this Chamber who have created and 
rewarded a culture of murder, I ask the same question that God asked 
Cain:
  What have you done? You have slain your sister who gave you no 
offense. The voice of her innocent blood cries out from the ground 
where it was spilled, where you try to cover and hide. But we saw what 
was done.
  What kind of monster shoots an unarmed, fleeing woman in the head? 
What kind of monster watches the video of that crime and chooses to lie 
to the American people as they defend the murderer and defame the 
victim? How do we prevent ourselves from descending to their monstrous 
depths?
  Mr. Speaker, I will tell my colleagues how. We prosecute the murderer 
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the due process he denied Renee and demand accountability up the entire 
chain of command. Our job is not to bear their sins. Our job is to make 
sure this never ever happens again.

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