WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. John Kennedy issued the following press release:
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) penned this op-ed (https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-john-kennedy-democrats-defund-the-police-plan-failed-here-go-again) for Fox News arguing that the calls to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could backfire as quickly as the defund-the-police movement did in 2020.
Key excerpts of the op-ed are below:
"As I've watched the protests in Minneapolis, it seems obvious to me that America is at risk of falling face-first into another disastrous anti-law enforcement crisis."
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"It was weapons-grade stupid to defund the police in 2020. It is just as dumb to defund ICE today. From terrorists entering the country to cartels ...