Sen. Mark Warner said 75% of the people arrested by ICE in Virginia have no criminal record. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Pressed on whether Virginia should work with ICE on the people who do have criminal records, Warner admitted the Biden administration "screwed up the border" but that targeting those with criminal records is not what is happening now under Trump.
"Let's potentially work on those who have criminal records," he said. "But that is different than what's happening right now, and the Biden administration screwed up the border, I'll be the first to acknowledge that, but the idea of masked ICE agents picking up moms dropping off their kids, folks going to work and, as we've seen at least in the circumstance in Minnesota, sometimes where kids are being left in the car after their parents that may or may not have been actually criminals are being picked up."
"I just think there ought to be a collaborative effort, and so far, at least based upon what I've seen in Minnesota, there is virtually no collaboration between local law enforcement and ICE, and I believe that is due to the ICE tactics," the senator continued.
People march during a protest after the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Getty Images)
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"I think everybody's got a First Amendment right to protest, but I don't think those protests should include or involve disrupting religious services. That seems inappropriate. I do know that in Minneapolis, at least from what I've read, they've got about 3,500 ICE agents there, overwhelming the local cops at about 800," Warner said.
"I believe that local law enforcement is pretty damn good at going after actual criminals," the Virginia Democrat added. "But when we have ICE agents, I've seen in my state, sitting outside a courthouse, when somebody comes to do their hearing as they try to get legal status in our country, and they get picked up because they did the right thing in reporting in, I'm not sure that's the system we ought to be having at this point."
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