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Mary Gay conducted Congressional oversight of a local BOP facility, where ICE detainees are being held, after one of her constituents died in custody. Mary Gay was appalled at the treatment of detainees and used this moment to call out DHS funding and ICE’s unchecked, unregulated, and unconstitutional brutality.
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“Today, it’s an immigrant being wrestled to the ground, and tomorrow it’s an American being shot. The slope is no longer slippery here. The lawless behavior we’re seeing from DHS and ICE, and the lack of brakes upon it, should really be concerning to everyone.”
— Mary Gay
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Last month, Mary Gay participated in an oversight hearing in Minneapolis alongside Rep. Pramila Jayapal and fellow congressional Democrats to investigate Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Kristi Noem’s violent attack on the state of Minnesota and the American people as a whole.
Alongside her fellow Judiciary Committee Democrats, Mary Gay is picking up where the Republicans have been derelict in their duties to the American people. It’s critical that we investigate why Americans were killed in the streets of Minneapolis and hold those responsible to account.
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“It takes a certain amount of hubris and lack of moral clarity to accuse a man shot and killed by federal agents of being a domestic terrorist before an investigation has even begun.
“It takes an unbelievable amount of depravity to double down in the face of facts.”
— Mary Gay
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Mary Gay believes that ICE and the Department of Homeland Security should not get a dollar more of taxpayers’ money until we have full transparency into that agency’s actions. She recently voted against more funding for ICE and raised dire concerns about detainee deaths in ICE facilities. Mary Gay has called on Pennsylvania Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick to vote NO on ICE funding.
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“More than 30 people have died in DHS custody over the last year, [including] one of my constituents.
He developed a medical issue and, by all reports other than the DHS official report, was denied medical care that might have saved his life.
I cannot support a bill giving funds to DHS that doesn't rein in masked ICE agents who are terrorizing our communities, tear-gassing babies, going door to door, raiding homes without a warrant, and holding American citizens, even children, at gunpoint.
— Mary Gay
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While we have our eyes on the situation in Minneapolis, there’s another critical issue that Mary Gay is working on: home heating! Mary Gay is working to increase funding for LIHEAP, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, to keep folks warm for the winter. Cold can be a matter of life and death — Mary Gay is fighting for more resources to keep everyone safe and warm.
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“Not freezing to death isn't a luxury. LIHEAP is a lifeline for millions of households in the winter. There's a winter storm this weekend, and if House Republicans cut $70 million from LIHEAP, Americans may soon have to choose between feeding their families and heating their homes.”
— Mary Gay
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