Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) voted against the Laken Riley Act, arguing that it will lead to the targeting of individuals based on their race. He expressed concerns that the bill, which expands the category of undocumented immigrants subject to deportation, will empower state attorneys general to intervene in immigration court proceedings and result in the removal of individuals for minor offenses or even suspicion of undocumented status.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Eric Swalwell defended his vote against the Laken Riley Act by stating that “people are going to be targeted because they’re brown.”
Host Chris Hayes asked, “here’s a sort of a test of this happening now with this piece of legislation that would essentially make larger the category of immigrants who are here undocumented without status who can be put into the deportation queue if arrested, not convicted, for a set of category of crimes. So, it enlargens that. It also, in a more — well, a part that a lot of Democrats are very focused on, it gives state A.G.
Swalwell answered, “Because people are going to be targeted because they’re brown. That’s what’s going to happen in America, because we’re not saying now that you have to go through the court process and be convicted of a violent crime — and I don’t want any undocumented individual who commits a violent crime to be here. I think they should be removed after they serve their sentence.
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