[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 23 (Monday, February 2, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H1940]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                  ICE

  (Ms. BALINT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BALINT. Mr. Speaker, tonight, as I stand here, people across this 
country are being terrorized by ICE with our tax dollars. Americans do 
not support this, and I will be their voice tonight on the floor.
  They don't want to live in a country in which you can be randomly 
stopped by a masked man and have him demand from you your papers. They 
don't want to live in a country where your First, your Second, and your 
Fourth Amendment rights are being violated. They don't want Americans 
gunned down because they are standing up for their immigrant neighbors.
  Mr. Speaker, we warned Republicans. We told them. We said: If you 
give a $170 billion blank check to Kristi Noem, you will create a 
paramilitary force, a lawless force that will brutalize Americans. We 
warned them, and I am sorry to say that we were right. Our predictions 
were right, and our worst fears have been realized.
  Americans are being traumatized. Immigrants are being brutalized. We 
have to impeach Kristi Noem. We must dump Stephen Miller, and we have 
to end this ICE terror and lawlessness.

                          ____________________