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

[orangecrush]

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.

[SergeStorms]

1. Use it against all republicans......

Congressional campaigns. Every last stinking one of them!

[bronxiteforever]

2. But MAGA Mike Johnson had time to argue religion with

the Pope about the treatment of immigrants. But that evil dude has no time for watching the testimony of actual suffering. Disgusting ghouls of the GOP.

[sheshe2]

3. Then every single one of them condones the Murders and Brutality

Each and every one of them are complicit. They have blood on their hands.

[live love laugh]

4. Meanwhile social media is rife with attacks on Democrats but little on Republicans.

[wolfie001]

9. The plutocrats own the media and even MSN is censoring any anti-tRUMP comments

I just stopped posting there. Our side has to be civil in the comment section meanwhile, redneck tRUMPer racists are running hog-wild. Total and complete bullshit. ShitTok is over-the-top pro-tRUMP. Not a single peep or complaint from our Democratic leaders. This shit is happening in real time. Election is in 9 months. WTF!!!

ps: YouTube is the only big media outlet that lets the Democratic messages get out. As far as I can tell.

[purr-rat beauty]

5. Fuck those worthless cretins

Every one of them are pro-death of American citizens

So NO quarter

[bluestarone]

6. They have made their thinking LOUD and CLEAR to me

The ones running in November are not to bright. Should be an easy decision for voters!!

[Biophilic]

7. Republicans show us over and over who they are.

We must remember and not forgive. They are NOT our friends under any circumstances. We must not forget, or we just allow it to happen again.

[Buddyzbuddy]

8. If they didn't witness the testimony, it didn't happen

and they can't respond to questions.
This is how criminals and lawyers behave. A lawyer doesn't ask if their client is guilty of a crime because it would restrict any defense strategy they might consider. Deniability is the key. A criminal knows to provide no information and they want the flexibility to swear they know nothing.

In fact this administration and Republicans take pride in claiming ignorance.

[slightlv]

10. I think many R's are stuck between a bad place and a hard place

all of their own making. They may have blackmail hanging over their heads, and can read the tea leaves of the elections just past and those to come. But they have no spine to do what's right in order to try to save themselves. It's always what is easiest and most expedient for these kinds of people. Which is why we should never expect them to help undo the damage that they, themselves, have administered to the U.S. both domestically and internationally. In sum, I believe them to be absolutely useless to anyone except the lowest criminal types.

[sakabatou]

11. Repukes: We're fine with ICE brutality