U.S. Rep. Kelly Morrison Stands with Minnesotans Ahead of Vote on DHS Funding

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, ahead of the U.S. Senate vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Representative Kelly Morrison (MN-03) stood with fellow Minnesotans to urge Congress to take immediate action and block any additional funding for ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).

“Americans across the country are demanding that Congress finally reasserts its power as a coequal branch of government. We cannot give one more penny to ICE as long as this lawless agency is violating Americans’ Constitutional rights, blatantly racially profiling, brutalizing people, terrorizing our communities, traumatizing our children, and killing people in our streets and in their custody,” said Congresswoman Kelly Morrison.

Good morning!

Wow – this is amazing to see all of these people behind me who made the trip here to our nation’s capitol. Yet again doing what Minnesotans do best: going to incredible lengths to stand up, speak out, and protect our neighbors.

I want to say how proud I am of our state always, but especially right now.

Minnesota is showing the world what it looks like to stand up against a tyrannical administration of cruelty, hate, and lawlessness with strength, dignity, and love.

You see it in the faces of everyone here. 

Teachers. Small business owners. Tow truck drivers. Labor leaders. Legislators. People who are using every resource, tool, and opportunity they have to try to help their neighbors.

These are dark and harrowing times… but it is the unwavering strength and resilience and compassion of Minnesotans that gives me hope and fuels me every single day.

So thank you to each and every one of you for all you are doing. You are making a difference.

What’s happening on our streets is wrong. The Trump Administration’s campaign of terror and retribution against the people of our state is wrong. 

Every single day we are seeing unconscionable civil rights abuses, Constitutional rights abuses, human rights abuses. 

I saw it just last week when I performed oversight of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. 

People in leg shackles. People sleeping on freezing concrete floors with no blankets. No real food. No real medical care. 

The cruelty and lack of humanity is a disgrace to who we are and is beneath what we should expect in the United States of America.

What the Trump Administration is choosing to do to human beings in this country is abominable.

It’s traumatizing our children… traumatizing all of us… and it’s not only causing incredible emotional and economic harm – the violence and brutality and inhumanity we are seeing on a daily basis is damaging our moral well-being as a nation.

Minnesotans have stepped up for their country – and it is far past time that the Republican majority in Congress do the same.

ICE OUT of Minnesota and ICE OFF our streets.

I’m going to keep pressuring my colleagues to stand up and do the right thing — and together we will keep fighting for a better, safer, stronger country. 

Thank you so much, all of you Minnesotans!