Van Hollen: I Won’t Vote to Fund Trump’s Lawless, Brutal ICE Operations

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said he would not vote to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Partial transcript as follows:

JONATHAN KARL: On Minnesota, you have said that you won’t vote for a single dollar to fund Trump’s ICE operations until there are reforms.So, what are you demanding? And is that leverage that can actually work?

VAN HOLLEN:  Well, what — it — what I’m saying is exactly as you quoted, that I am not going to cast a vote, not one dime, to support this lawless, brutal Trump ICE operation. So, what I’m saying is unless there are significant reforms to rein in this lawless ICE operation and there was a federal judge that just this week said that ICE