House Democrat (Robert Garcia - Calif.) : DHS 'going to come after US citizens' [View all]

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Source: The Hill

House Democrat: DHS ‘going to come after US citizens’

by Sarah Fortinsky - 05/15/25 6:34 PM ET

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) suggested Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could start deporting U.S. citizens with the expanded budget requested for fiscal 2026.

During an interview with MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes,” Garcia was asked about the Trump administration’s request for “an unprecedented expansion of funding of DHS, particularly on immigration enforcement” and “what it would look like to give this agency three to five times the funding it currently has.”

Garcia said that with more funding, DHS “would only expand” its current efforts.

“They’re deporting … children with cancer that have been diagnosed to other countries without their permission and the permission of their parents; they are essentially locking away students for expressing their freedom of speech and their political views. They’re deporting people that we give appointments for, for asylum. They are whisking away, literally in the dead of night, people from our communities across the country, without any of them even getting a chance to call a lawyer or their family,” Garcia said in the interview.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/national-security/5302973-house-democrat-dhs-going-to-come-after-us-citizens/