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Seth Magaziner Decries Arrests Of Migrants With 'No Criminal Charges Or Explanation' By Trump Admin.
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5/6/2025
During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing last week, Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) spoke about the arrest and detention of legal migrants by the Trump Administration.
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Chairman Yields, I now recognize Mr. Magaziner for five minutes.
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Thank you, Chairman. We need more funding for homeland security and border security. I was
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supportive last Congress of the bipartisan plan from the Senate to increase funding for border
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security, and I support more funding now. But what I cannot and will not support is the Trump
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administration locking up people with no due process, including people who are charged with
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no crimes, separating parents from children, sending people to foreign prisons, deporting
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children who need cancer treatment. It doesn't have to be this way. Our government can be effective
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without being cruel. And Donald Trump's disregard for due process puts the freedoms of all Americans
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at risk. Here's what I'm talking about. Andrew Hernandez Romero. And I'd ask my colleagues,
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do me the courtesy, put down the phones for just a minute and listen to this one story.
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He is a gay makeup artist who worked for a television station in Venezuela. He fled Venezuela because he
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was being persecuted by gangs linked to the dictator Maduro for his political beliefs and his sexual
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orientation. He made the grueling trip north to our border and presented himself at a port of entry to
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ask for asylum. If you remember nothing else about his story, remember this. He did not enter our
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country illegally. He did not enter our country at all. He didn't cross the border. He didn't sneak
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across. He did the right thing. He presented himself at a port of entry and asked for asylum. He did it
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the legal way. And when he was interviewed at the border, officers found that he had a credible asylum
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case that was likely to be approved at a full hearing. But he never got a full hearing. Why?
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Because instead, the Trump administration shipped him to the torture prison in El Salvador. He was never
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accused of a crime, has never been linked to any gang, and never entered the country illegally.
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The only rationale that the administration has ever provided for why he was sent is that he has two
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tattoos, one that says mom and one that says dad. He is still there in that prison in El Salvador today
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and has never received his hearing. I'll give you another. Fabian Schmidt, a German-American green card
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holder living legally in New Hampshire with permanent U.S. resident status. He was returning home after
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visiting his father in Europe and was taken to a prison in Rhode Island and has been held there for
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nearly two months. When he was detained, he was stripped naked, placed in a cold shower, and denied
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his medications, leading to his hospitalization. He has not been charged with any crime. We still don't
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know why he's in jail. The Department of Homeland Security has provided no justification for his
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imprisonment at all. His only record? Simple possession of marijuana and a DUI in 2015 and 2016.
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That's it. That's it. He has an eight-year-old daughter whose father has been locked up in prison for the
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last two months, and nobody knows why. During the course of this markup, you will hear many stories
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like this of children with cancer deported and unable to receive treatment, families separated, and people
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thrown in jail with no criminal charges and no explanation. None of this is necessary.
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Andrew Romero could be at his asylum hearing, and Fabian Schmidt could be home with his daughter,
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and this country would be no less safe. What should scare all of us is that the Trump administration
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seems to think that they are above the law and can lock people up and send people to foreign jails
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with no charges and no evidence. Look, we need to fund border security. Of course we do. But as a
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Congress, we have a responsibility to ensure that the administration uses its enormous power
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responsibly. That innocent people are not locked up and tortured. That is our job. If Congress doesn't
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hold this administration responsible, who will? And I'll tell my Republican colleagues right now,
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look, I'll support more funding for border security if you work with us to include language to make sure
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that the administration uses its awesome power responsibly. That we do our duty as a Congress
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to prevent executive overreach and ensure that innocent people are not locked up without due
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process. So let's withdraw this bill. Let's work together on a better one that combines funding
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with accountability. We can do both. And I yield back.
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Gentlemen, yields, I now recognize the ranking member.
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Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I think you can tell from
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