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ICYMI: Rep. Stevens Introduces the Hold ICE Accountable Act to Establish Independent Oversight of DHS Following ICE Misconduct
https://stevens.house.gov/media/press-releases ^ | March 31, 2026

Posted on 05/19/2026 7:18:49 AM PDT by equaviator

Washington, D.C. – In case you missed it, Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens introduced the Hold ICE Accountable Act, legislation to establish an independent Special Prosecutor to investigate unlawful conduct by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

This bill is her latest in a series of efforts to stand up to ICE, demand transparency, and fight for accountability after a pattern of violence, misconduct, and lack of oversight.

Here’s what Michiganders are seeing and reading about Rep. Haley Stevens fighting to ensure accountability at every level of ICE, from the bottom to the top, so no one is above the law.

Congresswoman Haley Stevens introduced legislation aimed at increasing oversight of federal immigration enforcement, calling for an independent prosecutor to investigate alleged misconduct by Department of Homeland Security personnel.

Stevens introduced the Hold ICE Accountable Act, which would create an independent special prosecutor to investigate alleged misconduct by the Department Of Homeland Security and ICE. Now the bill says the special prosecutor would need to be independent and have no ties to the current administration.

Stevens wrote this legislation after she says she was stonewalled by acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

The US Representative has previously called for an investigation into the death of Gantchev two separate times. She said she never received a response. “It will give people peace of mind, and, frankly, stop some of the lawlessness,”

The legislation comes amid heightened scrutiny of federal immigration operations following two fatal shootings in Minneapolis earlier this year. She also said it's in response to the death of a detainee at the Northlake Processing Center in Lake County.

“Members of Congress have been stonewalled,” Stevens said. “We have been stonewalled trying to get answers to deaths in ICE detention facilities.”

Under Stevens’ proposal, an independent special prosecutor would need to meet several requirements, including a separation from the Department of Justice while maintaining oversight by Congress.

“We asked about the death of Mr. Gantchev, when we were at Baldwin. We were informed that a death investigation was still going, on you know, a month and a half later we still haven't gotten the answers. and so look, we need a special prosecutor.”

“This is about accountability, for an agency that hasn't had any. Everywhere I go in Michigan people are asking about ICE overreach, ICE abuses of power, excessive force, racial profiling, there are deep concerns about what is going on in Romulus, and in South Field. I’m a member of Congress, and I’ve been stonewalled.”

“My legislation that I am offering today, is going to put in place a special prosecutor, so that we can have accountability for ICE agents that have committed crimes.

We saw two Americans killed before our very eyes, none of this has been acceptable. So, I want real accountability now, that isn't tied to waiting for this administration, who has failed Michigan, and failed the American people.” “We were told that an investigation was going on, that a death review was going on, I’ve also been at the forefront of calling out ICE abuse of power and ICE mismanagement.

I called for Kristi Noem to go, I called for her to be removed from office as the Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. From top to bottom, we need accountability”

“We still need accountability, we need reforms, and we need to see prosecutions for crimes committed, which is why I’ve written this legislation to create a special prosecutor that will be at the level of a U.S. attorney to go in and do what's right on behalf of the letter of the law here in this country.

We’ve got to work on the fears that are going on here in Michigan, and with Michiganders. People have been so worried about what they saw in Minneapolis coming here to Michigan, there is tension, and there is lack of trust because there is no accountability, and there is so much mismanagement going on at this time.”

“I want to see real reforms, I want to see accountability, and I want to see Michigan protected and heard at the lawmaking table.”


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: arresthaleystevens; demagogicparty; dimocrat; haleystevens; hanghaleystevens; michigan; stfuhaleystevens; theuglystick

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1 posted on 05/19/2026 7:18:49 AM PDT by equaviator
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To: equaviator

What ICE misconduct?


2 posted on 05/19/2026 7:19:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: equaviator

What a very stupid fool she is


3 posted on 05/19/2026 7:25:26 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: butlerweave

An embarrassing idiot.


4 posted on 05/19/2026 7:27:15 AM PDT by iamgalt ( )
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To: equaviator

I’d like to hold Haley’s ass accountable for 20 million foreign illegal alien scumbags burning up my tax dollars so the Party of Death will have enough foreign voter to steal elections for their massas.


5 posted on 05/19/2026 7:34:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (NO KINGS?! No pineapple princesses either. Sandy Ocasio and Kamala Harris have got to go!!!)
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To: equaviator

hmmm... needs the word “accountable” a few more times.


6 posted on 05/19/2026 7:35:49 AM PDT by misterdarcey (Abandon all nuance, ye who enter here.)
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To: equaviator

She doesn’t mind the US being overrun by Criminals like Herself , these democrats are very backward


7 posted on 05/19/2026 7:36:51 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: equaviator

Blah , blah , blah. ICE is reversing the Great Replacement they worked so deviously to implement. They want to cripple it by smears and red tape. This is just a continuation of their coup.


8 posted on 05/19/2026 7:38:45 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: equaviator

A true champion of justice. /s

https://www.tiktok.com/@teamhaleystevens/video/7622024123857882382?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc


9 posted on 05/19/2026 7:41:31 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“20 million”

The retiring head of the BP thinks it’s more like 100M.

And he’s been on the ground for the last 30 years.

So we can split the difference. Call it 50M.

Meaning that the US was successfully invaded and the invaders are now taking over, which is the whole point of...invading


10 posted on 05/19/2026 7:42:08 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: equaviator

Another one. Haley Stevens - D evil


11 posted on 05/19/2026 7:44:50 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? )
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To: Regulator

Personally, I BELIEVE it is 50 MILLION. I just say 20 million to keep people from saying that I’m exaggerating.


12 posted on 05/19/2026 8:05:29 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (NO KINGS?! No pineapple princesses either. Sandy Ocasio and Kamala Harris have got to go!!!)
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To: butlerweave

What we need to do is talk the far left ahos to boycott ice. Every time they buy a bag of ice, they are supporting the Federal Agents.


13 posted on 05/19/2026 8:07:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (NO KINGS?! No pineapple princesses either. Sandy Ocasio and Kamala Harris have got to go!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

What matters if there is 1 get rid of them and we don’t have the stomach (government) to get rid of them all.


14 posted on 05/19/2026 8:14:52 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: equaviator

Pure Political Theater by feckless morons trying to convince their voters that they are fighting Orange Man Bad. Whine and cry all you want, they’re ALL getting Deported. Throwing Aging Hippies, Paid Antifa, and generic DemonRat Useful Idiots who interfere with Agents in Federal Prison is just the cherry on top. AMF!


15 posted on 05/19/2026 8:59:08 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: BenLurkin
What ICE misconduct?

Doing their job, the one a vast majority of Americans want them to do?

16 posted on 05/19/2026 8:59:29 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: equaviator
"She's got spunk and I hate spunk!"

I think the spunky one is from Minnesota. This lady is from Michigan.
17 posted on 05/19/2026 9:16:01 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Dr. Sivana

I should’ve said something like, “It’s hard to believe that she used to be a man” just for kicks...And she does kinda look like she could be Pritzker’s long-lost little brother.


18 posted on 05/19/2026 10:38:46 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: equaviator

You made a somewhat obscure MTM Show reference, and I wanted to show I got it without being explicit.


19 posted on 05/19/2026 11:15:04 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Dr. Sivana
Yeah I did, and there is a spunky one in MN. Both are spunky in a bad way, if not funky.
20 posted on 05/19/2026 11:47:26 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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