Rep. Jasmine Crockett Blasts ICE as 'Slave Patrols'

Source: MEDIAite

Sep 14th, 2025, 12:47 pm


Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) likened Donald Trump’s militarized police forces roaming Democrat-run cities to the “slave patrols” of the antebellum South when white men targeted and arrested escaped slaves.

Crockett made the comment to MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Sunday.

Velshi began, “I’m trying to figure out, how can people who like Donald Trump, don’t like Donald Trump, understand that he seems to be building a police force that is not subject to the normal rules, that either policing or military should be subject to? It’s it’s sort of a police force that’s lacking accountability.”

“There is no accountability. And it’s going after its American people, right?” Crockett said. Crockett called the idea that anyone in American wants to be unsafe regardless of political party as “absolutely absurd.” “None of us want to be unsafe, but we’re not looking at the facts.”

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