Republicans and Democrats React to The Laken Riley Act Passing the House

TIME

The Republican-controlled House and Senate are pushing ahead with a law designed to cede some federal immigration enforcement power to the states and usher in a harsher new era of immigration detention.

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00:00As promised, we're starting today with border security.

00:02If you polled the populace and the voters, they would tell you that that was the top of the list.

00:07And we have a lot to do there to fix it.

00:09It's an absolute disaster because of what has happened over the last four years.

00:13And the Lake and Rowley Act is a big part of that.

00:15It is very clear that House Republicans are going to push an anti-immigrant agenda.

00:20There are serious flaws in this bill.

00:22It did not come up before the Judiciary Committee.

00:24This has not gone through the normal traditional process.

00:27We're going to continue to have robust discussions about immigration policy, about border security.

00:33The Democratic Caucus believes in the rule of law.

00:36We also believe in a process.

00:40And we believe in the fundamental principle that people accused of crimes have the ability to respond.

00:51And that doesn't mean that if you're accused of a crime, you should be deported.

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