Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026

Floor Speech

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Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this bill.

This year, Minnesota has witnessed a state of unbelievable violence, which has led to chaos and terror at the hands of President Trump and DHS.

Minnesotans are being racially profiled on a mass scale, assaulted on our streets, and kidnapped from our communities. Just the other day, a 5-year-old child was used as bait to get members of his household to come out so masked people in front of this 5-year-old could handcuff and carry family members away.

Masked Federal agents are seizing parents, yes, in front of terrified children, and many of these people we are finding had no record and were here legally.

American citizens and permanent residents are snatched from their cars, and they are taken to detention centers. I worked on one case this past weekend. It was cold, and a woman was warming up her car. She was taken out of her car. She was taken to Whipple. Then she was taken to Sherburne County and then back to Whipple again. Oh, and in between, she had to go to the hospital because of a head injury, and her arms, her wrists, might be suffering permanent damage. This was a citizen, a citizen, mind you.

This is the worst case of mass civil rights violations by the Federal Government in recent history.

Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks ago, Minnesota stood up to call out these illegal abuses by masked Federal agents, and a citizen, a mother of three in Minneapolis, Renee Good, was shot and killed.

It is happening right here, right now in Minnesota in the United States of America, and it needs to stop now. Not one penny of our taxpayer dollars should go to DHS while our constitutional rights are being violated.

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Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, in my last 30 seconds let me just say: Vote no. Vote for our constitutional rights. Vote for due process. Vote ``no'' on this bill.

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