Posted on 07/03/2025 2:36:20 AM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., defended a recent social media post calling ICE a "terrorist force" Wednesday.
During an interview with Brianna Keilar on "CNN News Central," the host spoke to Jayapal about her Tuesday Instagram post where she wrote that "ICE is acting like a terrorist force. People across the country of all legal statuses — including U.S. citizens — are being kidnapped and disappeared off the street by masked men. No oversight, no accountability. Completely lawless."
Keilar asked Jayapal to respond to a statement from White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson, which was obtained by Fox News Digital.
In the statement, Jackson said, "Jayapal’s disgusting comments warrant an immediate apology. Heroic ICE officers are simply doing their jobs and enforcing federal immigration law, with the utmost professionalism."
"Dangerous smears by deranged leftists like Jayapal radicalize their supporters to violently attack and obstruct federal law enforcement. Because of comments like Jayapal’s, assaults against ICE agents have increased by 500% this year. And that number will go even higher if Jayapal doesn’t stop with her smears," Jackson added.
Jayapal responded, "What is deranged and cruel and outrageous is that, literally, we are seeing ICE agents, I assume they‘re ICE agents. They say they are. They don‘t have any identification. They‘re wearing masks. They‘re in plain clothes. They are coming and kidnapping and disappearing people on the streets of the United States."
"I never in a million years thought that that is something that I would see here in America," she added. "And so I think it is the administration that has to apologize to U.S. citizens that have been rounded up to legal, permanent residents, to people with legal statuses across the country who are getting swept up, people who have been here for 20 years and committed no crimes...
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No, the apology is owed from the idiots that elected that harpy.
We AMERICANS don’t need an apology. You want apologies, YOU apologize to us for being an INDIAN parasite trying to bring down our country. Go home skank!
Leftists are terrified of legitimate authority.
BORN IN INDIA
ARE THERE ANY ERRORS ON HER PAPERS???
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