Rep. Goldman to ICE director: "If you don't want to be called a fascist, stop acting like one."

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"If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or a secret police, then stop acting like one."

That was Rep. Dan Goldman's advice to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons at a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday. Lyons had opened by objecting to people labeling his agents "the Gestapo" and "the secret police." — Read the rest

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