Rep. Jasmine Crockett Blasts ICE as Slave Patrols'

"I'm trying to figure out, how can people who like Donald Trump, don't like Donald Trump, understand that he seems to be building a police force that is not subject to the normal rules, that either policing or military should be subject to? It's it's sort of a police force that's lacking accountability. There is no accountability. And it's going after its American people, right?"

"So, listen, if we want to figure out how we are going to be safer, we probably need people that have actual intelligence and actually will pay attention to data and facts and go from there. But what they're doing right now, it almost feels like, you know, I've seen the memes about the purge and all these things but as somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see slave patrols."

"Crockett added that everyone in America should have a real problem with the recent Supreme Court decision to allow ICE agents to profile potential targets based on things like race and whether Spanish is being spoken, when deciding to detain and interrogate someone. It's almost like you can just go grab them up that is what they're saying. And that is a problem. We all should have a problem with that."

Militarized policing operations are being deployed in Democratic-run cities with limited accountability and authority that bypasses normal policing or military rules. Such forces evoke historical slave patrols, given their origins in American policing and their targeting of marginalized communities. Recent Supreme Court authorization allows ICE agents to use characteristics like race or language to profile, facilitating detentions and interrogations without robust safeguards. Claims of public safety are undermined when actions ignore data, intelligence, and historical context and when American history, including Black history, is not taught, reducing public understanding of policing origins and the risks of racialized enforcement.

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