Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said she was reminded of the history of "slave patrols" after conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents the ability to target people based on their ethnicity.
During a Sunday interview on MSNBC, Crockett criticized President Donald Trump's crime-fighting strategy.
"So listen, if we want to figure out how we are going to be safer, we probably need people that have actual intelligence and actually will pay attention to data and facts," she explained. "But what they're doing right now, it almost feels like, you know, I've seen the memes about the purge and all these things."
"But as somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see slave patrols," she continued. "But if you know the history of policing i