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Advocating for Justice
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| Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus held a news conference in response to the Supreme Court decision to stay a district court injunction blocking certain immigration enforcement actions in Los Angeles. | ||
| Members of the caucus accused the court of legalizing racial profiling. | ||
| Here are their remarks. | ||
| Heads up. | ||
| Yes, heads up. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Good afternoon. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Buenas tardes. | ||
| Good afternoon. | ||
| We're here to obviously be very concerned to voice our dissent of the Supreme Court's reckless endangerment of all Americans, really, not just Latinos, but starting with those who fit ICE current profile of undesirables. | ||
| And we're here to dissent publicly because it applies to all of us, as it may apply to you with this decision, or future decisions may apply to a broader scope of Americans. | ||
| So we feel that this decision has a current impact and it presents a clear and present danger to people like us. | ||
| But it also sets a path for future decisions that could endanger a broader number of Americans. | ||
| And this is about us today, people that look like us or have an accent like us or who have a last name like we do, but in the future it could be somebody else. | ||
| So that's why we're here to say that we dissent. | ||
| And on September 16, we send out a communication, a letter to all Americans explaining how we stood behind Justice Soto Mayor's unequivocal dissent of this decision. | ||
| And we stand with her, we support what she said, and we agree with her. | ||
| And so we're here to tell the American people that although these are difficult times, although these are dangerous times, we will continue to push forward as a community. | ||
| We will represent our constituents the right way by educating them and telling them the do's and the don'ts given this decision. | ||
| And we will continue to move forward as Latinos in the United States of America. | ||
| With that, I want to introduce to you a member that has been very vocal about this and one that has a very clear opinion about it that she has articulated it many, many times, Congresswoman Norma Torpes. | ||
| Thank you, Chairman Adriano, and good afternoon, everyone. | ||
| Thanks for being here. | ||
| The Supreme Court has sent our country a very clear message. | ||
| If you are Latino, if you speak Spanish, or work hard for a living, your rights are now conditional. | ||
| This ruling returns us to an America that we swore we would never see again. | ||
| One where your skin color, your language, your work makes you a target of your own government. | ||
| And let me be clear. | ||
| This decision is an unchecked power that attacks Latino families, hardworking families, and anyone who believes in equal justice. | ||
| Justice Soto Mayor dissent is a clear warning to everyone. | ||
| Our Fourth Amendment rights, which protect every individual from arbitrary interference by law enforcement officers, may no longer be protected for those who look like me a certain way, speak a certain language, or hold legitimate low-wage jobs. | ||
| For those who don't understand, may be having a hard time understanding, I want you to imagine for a moment, walk a day in my shoes, continuously having to look over your shoulder, trying to protect your children from being targeted by our own government. | ||
| This is about fear, fear that justifies discrimination, tears apart our rights, and weaponizes government against our hardworking communities, regardless of our immigration status. | ||
| History has shown that silence in the face of injustice is complicity. | ||
| Now, more than ever, we cannot remain silent. | ||
| We must fight and speak loud enough to be heard across the country for every Latino child, for every working family, and every American who believes in equality. | ||
| Liberty is not for sale. | ||
| Justice is not conditional. | ||
| And the Supreme Court justices have failed us miserably. | ||
| And we must work together to right this wrong. | ||
| Exercise your right to register to vote. | ||
| Vote. | ||
| Make sure that you are also turning people out to vote. | ||
| Advocate for your rights and raise your voice. | ||
| The power of this country lies in all Americans, whether you look like me or not. | ||
| La Corte Suprema a enviado un men saj muy claro. | ||
| Sier es Latinos, hablas español otra vajas duro tú zerechos son condicionables. | ||
| Este fallo afecta familias trabajadoras y a todos lo que los que creen en la justica. | ||
| La juesta soto mayor adviarte. | ||
| Nuestras protecciones de la de la cuarta enimienda podríán no applicarce aquí eneceden hablan o trabaján de cíiarta manera. | ||
| Imaginense todos ustedes. | ||
| Tener que protejera nuestros sijos de ser un objectivo de nuestro propio covierno. | ||
| Esto es miedo convertido en arma. | ||
| Discriminación es justicía legalizada. | ||
| El silencio es complicidad. | ||
| No podemos que dar nos callados. | ||
| La libertar no está inventa. | ||
| Y la justicía no es condicional. | ||
| La Corte suprema nos fallo. | ||
| Ahora depende de nosotros el poder es nuestro. | ||
| Registrace para avotar. | ||
| Vota. | ||
| Motiva a otros avotar, levanta tu vos el poder está en nuestras manos. | ||
| Gracias. | ||
| I now would like to introduce, or you will introduce someone. | ||
| Gracias norma, el presidente kenedidijo. | ||
| El derecho de cada persona se di imminu ye cuando el derecho de una persona está empeligro. | ||
| La cuarte menda no proteje a todos y nosotros no podemos de éminuir esas protecciones. | ||
| Nosotros vamos ahora a presentar algien que también con parte la posición de norma la nuestra el representante joaquín Castro de l'estado dejas. | ||
| Thank you, Chairman. | ||
| And thank you to all my colleagues today and also the press for covering this very important issue. | ||
| This ruling is a green light for racial profiling. | ||
| Ultimately, that means harassment of law-abiding people, including U.S. citizens. | ||
| The ruling says basically that law enforcement can treat entire communities of people as suspects, not because of what they've done, but because of the color of their skin, where they work, how they speak English, how they sound. | ||
| This is not quote-unquote reasonable suspicion. | ||
| It's prejudice and it's racism that's being legalized. | ||
| The court made this sweeping change on what's called its shadow docket. | ||
| No full hearing, no transparency. | ||
| The credibility of the Supreme Court has even been brought up by other judges, both Republican and Democratic appointees, who have noted that the Supreme Court is increasingly unwilling to explain itself when it overturns lower court rulings. | ||
| The impacts of this ruling are not abstract. | ||
| They're very real, and they gut the Fourth Amendment. | ||
| And we're seeing the impacts right now. | ||
| Every single American, regardless of who you are, should be concerned by this. | ||
| Families will continue to fear going to work. | ||
| Kids will fear going to school. | ||
| And hardworking folks who contribute to our economy, our communities, and our country will hide and step back from public life just to stay safe. | ||
| I have heard from so many people all over San Antonio and all over Texas and different parts of the country, in immigrant communities and also employers who have said that even U.S. citizens, even legal permanent residents, are now frightened to show up for work, frightened to send their kids to school. | ||
| So we demand clear limits on law enforcement power, real oversight, and a commitment to the notion that we see individuals, not harmful and racist stereotypes, when we look at Latinos and others in this country. | ||
| We join Justice Soto Mayor, Kagan, and Brown Jackson in saying, I dissent. | ||
| I dissent to attacks on the Fourth Amendment, individual liberties, and our democracy. | ||
| Gracias, the use of racial aesisto policas, lo que está decición hace es que le da lus verde a uso de esapractica, racista, senophobica, que hace tanto dañón para nuestra comunidades. | ||
| Con eso le presentamos a representante de California a representante homebarga. | ||
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Muchisimado. | |
| Gracias, thank you. | ||
| And thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to all of you that are here in the media. | ||
| What an incredibly racist decision. | ||
| What an incredibly racist decision. | ||
| It says basically, you can be stopped, you can be detained, you can be arrested simply because of your ethnicity. | ||
| That's what this says. | ||
| That's why we dissent. | ||
| It's an outrage. | ||
| I was thinking when my first daughter was born, I was working on the old house where we live now, and I would often take her to the Home Depot with me in my truck because we were picking stuff up, and I was trying to teach her Spanish. | ||
| I could have easily been picked up if this law was in place when I'm trying to teach my daughter how to speak Spanish because I would fit the profile. | ||
| I'm obviously a Latino, I'm speaking Spanish, and I'm driving an old truck. | ||
| I then would fit this racial profiling. | ||
| That's outrageous, then, that the court allows this. | ||
| Now, it is also interesting, what my colleague said, is very important to know this. | ||
| The lower courts are taking a look at the law and saying, This is outrageous. | ||
| You can't do this, and they stop it. | ||
| And then it gets appealed to the Supreme Court, and then the Supreme Court says, okay, but they don't say why. | ||
| Because they know they can't explain it. | ||
| That's why they use this shadow docket. | ||
| The only rule they seem to have, as was explained by Brown Jackson, is that no matter what it is, this administration wins. | ||
| That's the only rule they have. | ||
| They violate all the other rules of law and decency, and that's what this does. | ||
| Lo que estamos viendo quí que esta le lo que está naciendo esta applicación er racista porque por que tapueden detení detener solamente por como temidas, porque es un Latino o Latina, porque hablas español porque tienes un trabajo que es no muy lucrativo, porque manejas un troque. | ||
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Ask About Citizenship Rights
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Entonces, lo que dico la courte suprema es que sit pueden detener te pueden a destar solamente por eso. | |
| Sin ninguna información sobre tú cyudadanía o naramás suamente como te pareces, verdá. | ||
| Eso racista, eso es ilegal. | ||
| Y lo que vemos es que las courtes cuando first en esta ley estra porpuesta, dice embueno estos encontra la la, no puedes da ser esto. | ||
| Entonces ye a la Corte suprema, where Trump apuesto, muntond desosos juces, y llos 6 puedes, but no espricam because the shadow documents decisions sino yer today all the information and entonces the decisions 5 decir porque el porque. | ||
| La unicaración que dadanes que está administración siempregana. | ||
| Es la unica le que vemos. | ||
| Y por eso tenemos que decidos otros, estamos enconta desto porque es unar le un applicación rasista. | ||
| Muchismas gracias. | ||
| De California el Representante Guill Cisneros. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good afternoon, everyone. | ||
| And thanks to my colleagues for all being here today. | ||
| The Supreme Court decided that the color of your skin and the tone of your voice is enough for reasonable cause for federal agents to stop and question the status of your citizenship. | ||
| This horrible Supreme Court ruling gives federal agents the green light to target people who look or sound Latino, people like me, people like us. | ||
| ICE has been inciting pure chaos and fear into our communities, and the Supreme Court has authorized full-on racial profiling now. | ||
| Let me be clear: this is cruel, regressive, and un-American. | ||
| And it's personal. | ||
| Today, I received another video of unidentified ICE agents, no badge, no markings, and an unmarked car arresting someone for being Latino, a site that is becoming all too common. | ||
| They have our community living in fear. | ||
| This morning, I spoke to a gentleman, an immigrant, who became a U.S. citizen, who said he now carries his passport and citizenship papers for fear of being confronted by ICE. | ||
| Hardworking people who abide by the law, who only want to make a better life for their families, should not have to live in fear. | ||
| This is not the American way. | ||
| We cannot sit back quietly while our courts degrade the rights of our country that our country was founded on. | ||
| I'm here today to echo Justice Sotomayer's dissent against this repulsive Supreme Court ruling. | ||
| We all dissent. | ||
| I served our country in uniform and I stand for the principles that it was founded on: that America is a place for everyone, regardless of race, class, creed, or religion. | ||
| And I will continue that fight with my friends, my neighbors, so that we can all walk down the street without fear of harassment or persecution. | ||
| So, thank you all. | ||
| We dissent. | ||
| And with that, we will present Renee Jesus Chui Garcia from the state of Illinois. | ||
| Thank you, Chairman. | ||
| I add my voice to the voices of my colleagues in the Hispanic caucus. | ||
| I represent the southwest side of Chicago and 23 suburban communities. | ||
| The Supreme Court's extremist justices have greenlit what ICE has long been doing in communities like mine: stopping and arresting people on how they look, the color of their skin, the language they speak, or where they work. | ||
| Racial profiling is one of the many abusive tactics that ICE deploys. | ||
| They're targeting people who look a certain way, kidnapping them off the streets and disappearing them into detention centers without due process. | ||
| These tactics are lawless and they are getting people killed. | ||
| This weekend, a family in my district lost a dad. | ||
| Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE on Friday in Franklin Park. | ||
| What happened to this man was state violence, not public safety. | ||
| There's a lot we don't know about what happened, but the footage that's been released shows Silverio being followed and stopped by two agents in an unmarked vehicle and then trying to get away from them. | ||
| Fleeing a traffic stop is not a justification for law enforcement to kill someone. | ||
| And we need transparency and accountability for what took place. | ||
| The same day, ICE agents detained my constituent, William Jimenez, in Little Village, my neighborhood, as he walked out of a barbershop with his wife. | ||
| ICE refused to disclose the location, even to his attorneys, thanks to protests at ICE's Broadview Processing Center and pressure. | ||
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This is available to watch online at our website, c-span.org. | |
| We are going to leave this here for now for remarks from President Trump made just a short time ago. | ||
| Everybody wants to be, but I'm one person. | ||
| But we're going to meet with quite a few of the leaders. | ||
| Well, I'm going to meet with some of the majors. | ||
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Anybody else? | |
| No, not at all. | ||
| I think Jimmy Kimmel is terrible. | ||
| You know what suspended him? | ||
| His talents. | ||
| You know what else? | ||
| Really? | ||
| Take a look at this guy, his ratings. | ||
| That's what got Jimmy Kimmel out. | ||
| He was terrible. | ||
| And didn't he lose? | ||
| I saw a report where ABC lost millions of dollars with him. | ||
| So that's what suspended Jimmy Kimmel. | ||
| I'm going to read about Estonia and how you're going to respond to Rocket. | ||
| No, I haven't been waiting for it yet. | ||
| Will you meet with Democratic leaders to talk about how to avert a shutdown? | ||
| Well, I will, but they don't care about crime. | ||
| They want to keep men and women sports. | ||
| They want all this stuff they don't change. | ||
| You haven't learned from the biggest meeting they've ever taken just about. | ||
| I'd love to meet with them, but I don't think it's going to have any impact. | ||
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I will forget what you vote for. | |
| You will meet with Democratic leaders? | ||
| I'd love to meet with them if they want to meet for a while. | ||
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Why do you like the grounds for losing a broadcast license? | |
| Well, I think when a network is dishonest, certainly if they are dishonest, because they give you 97% bad publicity or whatever it is, some ridiculous number, yeah, I would say that would be grounded. | ||
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So are you advocating on the ground to get sovereign back? | |
| We won't talk about that, but we're talking now to Afghanistan, and we want it back, and we want it back soon, right away. | ||
| And if they don't do it, if they don't do it, you're going to find out what I'm going to do. | ||
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So you want President Hardy? | |
| Will they sign a deal on TikTok? | ||
| And we're moving along. | ||
| We have great American patriots that are buying it. | ||
| Very, very substantial people, people that love our country, and they're very smart technologically. | ||
| And they will not let anything bad happen to TikTok. | ||
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On the seven seats, sir, will there be an American in that seventh seat on the TikTok board? | |
| There's a sixth seat for Americans. | ||
| What nationality will that seven seats be? | ||
| Well, we're going to see. | ||
| We're going to announce that over the next week. | ||
| Who the sevens will be. | ||
| Mr. Fisher. | ||
| Mr. President. | ||
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Are you tired of winning yet? | |
| You get tired of this. | ||
| Not that tired. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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That was President Trump on his way now to the American Cornerstone Institute Founders Dinner at Mount Vernon, which is closed to cameras. | |
| We now return to our scheduled programming. | ||
| History will not be kind to you. | ||
| It is shameful. | ||
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I thought we were only doing this if he spoke. | |
| I exactly the reality that this court has created. | ||
| They have given mass federal agents the power to pull anyone who looks Latino off the street for any reason. | ||
| And it is not just immigrants getting caught in this dragnet. | ||
| American citizens have already been handcuffed, shot against fences, and dragged to warehouses under these rates. | ||
| This ruling reduces Latinos to second-class citizenship in the United States. | ||
| And this is just the latest in a series of disgrateful decisions by this court. | ||
| They have gutted voting rights, attacked reproductive freedom, undermined protections for workers and consumers, and now strip millions of Latinos of their most basic constitutional guarantees. | ||
| They have put the desires of the Trump administration over the rule of law. | ||
| We refuse to accept that. | ||
| The CAC stands united. | ||
| Racial profiling has no place in America. | ||
| We will fight to protect our communities, restore constitutional rights, and hold this administration accountable. | ||
| Because if the Supreme Court can roll back these rights, no American freedoms are safe. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Gracias. | ||
| Preguntas, questions? | ||
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Yes? | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I would like to know what you recommend to people who could be detained because of how they look, and if you ask representatives who take some legal actions against that decision of the Supreme Court or not. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Well, Primero, the first thing is that everybody obviously has the right to secure an attorney that will advise them. | ||
| And every case is a different case given particular circumstances. | ||
| So we ask, first of all, we ask those people to get the legal help that they are entitled to and they should get in their own city, their own town, their own jurisdiction. | ||
| And obviously, each case will be a different case, but the fundamental question is whether someone should be stopped because of how they look or how they have an accident or whether they have a low-paying job, whether that should be legal at all. | ||
| And so that's the fundamental question. | ||
| We want them to be educated on the issue and we will provide greater orientation to the general public about this particular issue because it's somewhat confusing to many. | ||
| But at the end of the day, they should have the legal services that they need to be able to answer in a courtroom. | ||
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Anybody wants to answer about another topic very important for Latin America, which is the desertification of Colombia. | |
| President Trump says that Colombia authorities fail in this fight against drug traffickers. | ||
| So I'd like to ask for your opinion on this matter, and if that's possible as Spanish response. | ||
| We will defer to the ranking member of the Western Hemisphere, Joaquín Castro. | ||
| I'll let these guys do the Spanish. | ||
| But I just saw this morning the decertification, and it's important to understand that the United States has worked with Colombia and other nations to combat drug trafficking for years. | ||
| And part of that success has come because the United States has committed resources to do that. | ||
| And so my staff and I and others are going to take a look at exactly why the administration, the State Department, has chosen decertification. | ||
| Fortunately, I believe that there's a waiver that has been put in place for now, so the monies will still be going there. | ||
| And again, I just underscore how important it's been that partnership in combating drug trafficking. | ||
| And I hope that we can continue as two nations to work together on that. | ||
| I'll also say that I've been very troubled by President Trump's approach to Latin America so far. | ||
| What I see is a United States president taking us back decades in his approach where the relationship with Latin America was one of antagonism. | ||
| And we've seen now the administration make a decision to execute a military strike on two ships or boats that they claim were drug trafficking ships. | ||
| However, they have not provided any evidence, any proof whatsoever, other than asking the American people and the world to take their word for it. | ||
| And that's not the American way. | ||
| It's not the American way to summarily execute people and say, take our word for it that they were bad people. | ||
| As Americans, we have to expect better than that. | ||
| We have to expect more from our government. | ||
| And I believe that it gives the United States a severe black eye around the world when a president and an American government conducts itself that way. | ||
| How does the American government speak out about the Uyghur situation in China with any kind of moral authority when its own president is summarily making a decision to summarily execute people without explanation? | ||
| It's a very dangerous precedent that's being set, and I think that deserves more discussion and attention as well. | ||
| Odra preguntas, in the back. | ||
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Do you see any opportunity to advance legislation to address the Supreme Court decision? | |
| We have been speaking about that. | ||
| Obviously, this is a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's one that warrants a discussion, particularly among members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, as to how and when we should answer this legislatively. | ||
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C-SPAN Student Cam Competition
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Yes. | |
| Any other questions? | ||
| Preguntas? | ||
| Gracias. | ||
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. | |
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Drew's USC Visit
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Here's a look at their hour 10-minute conversation. | |
| Charlie Kirk, what the hell are you doing here? | ||
| By the way, what brings you to California, your favorite state? | ||
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It is my favorite state in the union. | |
| You're doing such a great job here, by the way. | ||
| No, I'm honored to be on the show. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You were just down at USC? | ||
| I was at USC yesterday, drew a big crowd. | ||
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