Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement:

Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has been shamefully corrupted to focus more on bullying Americans than defending national security. Today a violent assault by masked agents at the 26 Federal Plaza facility in New York City ended with a journalist carried away on a stretcher–his only crime being attempting to document an ICE arrest. This is just the latest outrage in a string of documented violence against law-abiding people exercising their rights. 

Americans cannot and should not tolerate unaccountable masked secret police. These agents need to be identified by DHS and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

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