Confrontations are playing out nationwide as lawmakers conduct checks of facilities where thousands are being held

From New York to California, Democratic members of Congress have been repeatedly blocked from entering Ice detention facilities where thousands of noncitizens – many with no criminal convictions – are being held.

Democratic officials’ legislative checks – a legal right for members of Congress – have consistently confirmed reports that immigrant detainees are being kept in “filthy” and “inhumane” conditions with little regard for due process. Now, the facilities have become a battleground in the intensifying standoff between the Trump administration and Democratic lawmakers over the president’s supercharged immigration agenda.

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          the left constantly punching left

          Are Zionists and Bitcoin shills and McKinsey consultants and ex-CIA flacks on “the left”?

          refusing to accept anyone as an ally

          Mamdani, AOC, and Sanders have plenty of allies. None of them work at the Washington Post.

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            If Zionists, Bitcoin shills and the like are willing to vote and fight against Trump, then we can deal with them in the aftermath.

            I never got the crypto hate on the left, anyway. So you’re all anti-establishment unless money is involved? Why draw a line, to fit in with the meta?

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            Sanders, is that the dinosaur you push despite saying you want old white mean out of politics? I remember him, he’s the guy who can’t win even the support of dems so he had no hope of winning a general election

            Anyways im just a non American indigenous person watching you morons burn the world down, because of what another country is doing to another nation across the planet. This shows even the American left loves to play world police instead of fixing their own dumpster fire. You guys only cheapen a movement like aid for gaza, stfu and get in the back of the line Americans, better yet go deal with your fascist government

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                Indigenous people can’t move or get on planes right? We brown Indians never migrate or move to Canada as a refugee cause American blew up our house right? Never happens! Everyone stays in the country they were born in, that’s why you guys call us wetbacks and border jumpers when we try. Racist prick

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              Sanders, is that the dinosaur you push

              Do liberals get to drop that line after force feeding the nation Joe Biden? Idk.

              Anyways im just a non American indigenous person

              This is a funny statement, because it could technically describe Prince Andrew.

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      They’re literally trying to do something about it buty visiting the concentration camps.

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        That’s not worth nothing, but I’d believe that more if they weren’t defeated by a stern yet illegal “no” and immediately tried to make themselves out to be the real victims.

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          Do you already forget the mayor of Jersey City being forcibly arrested while trying to enter an ICE facility?

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        They control the purse. No visits, no funds.

        They need to put pay stoppages on everything. No vendors, no contractors, no salaries. Operate within the legislative model or don’t operate at.

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    The goal is not to bully you, the goal is to commit human rights violations unchecked.

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      Yeah but now they can capitulate to the “bullying” and let the GOP do whatever as usual.

      Well maybe someone will issue a strongly worded press release.

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      Yeah wtf. Democrat politicians are NOT the fucking victims here ffs. They have been complicit in Trumps bullshit for years and just recently decided to change their minds because the money stopped flowing.

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      It’s really not. They’re not letting Congress members inspect literal concentration camps. I wonder when that has happened before…

      This is issue #1. I’m all for beating the drums on the Epstein files, but the reason for that is just to fracture his base. The actual important thing right now is to stop a genocide before it gets into gear