WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Republican and Democratic senators questioned ICE's methods during testimony by Department of Homeland Security officials about violence during Operation Metro Surge, the immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
"Americans protesting shouldn't give ICE the right to exert lethal force," said U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The session was an oversight hearing focused on the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions in Minnesota and elsewhere.
The hearing came just a day before a deadline for Congress to pass a DHS funding bill or risk a partial shutdown. Democrats have demanded that ICE officers and agents carry identification, stop wearing masks and cease racial profiling.
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