'Living in the upside-down': Florida lawmaker aghast at chaos as public turns on ICE

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) appeared on MS NOW's "The Weeknight" on Wednesday to express his shock at how quickly the public mood is turning against Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis — and how, while Democrats should be cautious about how they seize on it, it's still a critical moment.

"It's interesting watching Democrats really try to attack this problem from multiple angles," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "You have your colleagues, representatives, Goldman and Swalwell, who are looking at the possibility of stripping qualified immunity from ICE agents. You have Senator Murphy looking at a number of ways in which DHS funding could be restricted ... you have articles of impeachment being drawn up for Secretary Noem. Do you have a sense of where there is the greatest political will, or for that matter, any political will on the part of Republicans to actually rein in the terror that we are seeing from ICE?"

"So let me say this," said Moskowitz. "I think Kristi Noem is the weakest link of the administration. I think the president should remove her. She just embarrasses him every single day. That's my position on her. And it's not just about ICE. She's destroyed FEMA. It's not even clear FEMA could even respond to a disaster based on what she's done there. That's going to hurt red states, most rural people, most poor people, most farmers. And so I just think she's just an embarrassment, quite frankly, to the president."

Regarding how Democrats should respond to the fury over ICE, Moskowitz continued, "We also have to make sure we don't fall into a trap here."

"Republicans are very, you know, are great at setting these traps about, oh, Democrats want to defund law enforcement or Democrats want open borders," he said. "So we have to make sure that we also don't overreact and get ourselves into a situation as we approach the '26 election into these, you know, moderate districts, into these districts in play."

"As far as courage on my Republican colleagues, no, they're not going to do anything here," he continued. "But the factthat Joe Rogan is coming outand talking about the 'Gestapo'language Democrats were usingmonths ago, and we were toldwhen that language was beingused that it was over the top.Now Rogan is using it, becauseliterally masked men are in thestreet shooting Americancitizens in the face. And thenwe're hearing that's 'domesticterrorism.' On the same day, wehad a January 6th hearing whenwe actually had domesticterrorism, when all those folksobviously rushed into theCapitol. And so, you know,listen, we're living in theupside down. I don't know whatelse to say."

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