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Adriana Stone 0 1 min read

Jeffries Says ICE Can’t Storm Churches — Really?

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared on Morning Joe and made sharp comments about ICE. He called the agency out on national TV.

He said, “ICE is totally and completely out of control.”

He also argued, “Donald Trump promised, with respect to immigration enforcement, that the administration was going to target violent felons who are here in the country illegally. That’s something the American people support,” and added, “The American people do not support the targeting, the arrest, the detention, the brutalization of American citizens, certainly do not find acceptable the killing of Renee Nicole Good, and the targeting of law-abiding immigrant families and communities.”

Jeffries pushed for clearer rules. He said ICE should have a “use of force standard,” and he warned that “ICE should not be able to storm houses of worship.”

That line grabbed attention. People on social media pushed back fast. The reason: reporting and video tied the recent St. Paul disruption to anti-ICE protesters who entered a church, not to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

In short: Jeffries warned about ICE entering houses of worship. Some viewers reminded him and the audience that the viral incident involved protesters storming a church service, not a federal raid.

The clip and reactions circulated widely online. Here are the original embeds and reactions as shared on Twitter:

The back-and-forth shows how quickly a short TV line can become the story. Jeffries raised real questions about enforcement standards. But the immediate factual claim about who stormed a church was challenged by witnesses and footage.

Keep watching the reporting. There are two separate things here: the policy question about ICE’s tactics, and the factual question about what actually happened at that church. They both matter, and they deserve clear answers.

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