No Republicans Show Up For Joint House-Senate Hearing On ICE Murders, Brutality. [View all]

Democratic members of the House and Senate Oversight Committees held a joint hearing Tuesday on the violence and murder that have been inflicted on Americans by Homeland Security agents carrying out Donald Trump’s agenda of ethnic cleansing via mass deportations. Because the forum was convened by the ranking Democratic members of both committees, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-California) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), no Republican members bothered to show up. You know, not because it showed Trump and DHS in a bad light, but because it would be wrong to dignify an event that hadn’t been called by the committees’ leadership. Americans may be dying, but there’s such a thing as respect for the institution, after all.

The Democrats heard testimony from Luke and Brent Ganger, the brothers of Renee Good, who was murdered January 7 by ICE goon Jonathan Ross. They also heard from other survivors of ICE violence, including Marimar Martinez of Chicago, who on October 4 was shot five times after Border Patrol agent Charles Exum crashed into her car, then lied that Martinez had rammed him and threatened him with a gun she did not have. Also testifying at the hearing were Aliya Rahman of Minneapolis, whose violent arrest in Minneapolis went viral after DHS goons dragged her from her car a week after Good’s murder, as she tried to explain that she was disabled and had a medical appointment nearby, and Martin Daniel Rascon, who in August was shot at by federal agents for being brown and riding in a pickup truck with two family members, who were suspiciously also brown. Why was there no testimony from Alex Pretti’s family? Darned if we know, could be that will be the focus of a later hearing.

All of those who testified are US citizens, and allegedly have constitutional rights, if you can believe that.

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Renee Good’s brother Luke Ganger summed up what many Americans have been feeling, noting, “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation, thinking that perhaps Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not. The completely surreal scenes taking place are beyond explanation.”

https://www.wonkette.com/p/no-republicans-show-up-for-joint

Yeah, about that "bipartisan" word....

We're supposed to believe these Republican scum are going to agree to reforms.

JHFC.