DHS has arrested people filming their agents, and Sens. Duckworth, Durbin say those arrests must stop

U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin are demanding federal immigration agents stop arresting people filming them.

In a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the senators requested that she keep federal agents from arresting people exercising “a core First Amendment right.”

“Failure to do so would be an admission that you are purposefully seeking to suppress free speech and impede government accountability through malicious, unlawful arrests intended to terrorize and silence American citizens who disagree with government actions,” they wrote in the letter. “Public safety officers must be accountable to the very Americans they are supposed to serve and protect.”

The Department of Homeland Security didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

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