Democrat compares ICE to 'domestic terrorists' as 111 House Dems demand Texas detention center close

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A House Democratic lawmaker compared actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to domestic terrorism after a visit to a Texas detention facility on Tuesday. Rep. Luz Rivas, D-Calif., said that seeing ICE's actions was personal for her as the daughter of Mexican immigrants and argued that "for the people of the United States, we don't want to see our government, or ICE officials, acting like domestic terrorists," she said in Spanish during a press conference. She said her Los Angeles district saw more ICE raids than anywhere else in her county. Rivas was among a group of lawmakers led by Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, on a visit to an ICE facility in Dilley, Texas, which over 100 House Democrats have demanded to be shut down. TRUMP ON VERGE OF SECURING $70B ICE FUNDING VICTORY AFTER HOUSE CLEARS HURDLE The lawmakers accused the Trump administration of holding families, including a child as young as 2 months old, in inhumane conditions. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., a member of the left-wing "Squad," also attacked President Donald Trump as a "dictator." SOMETHING TO HIDE? ICE UNDER FIRE FOR SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS AT FOR-PROFIT DETENTION CENTER "It's so important that we not acquiesce to this, this fascist administration, this dictator in the Oval Office," Pressley said. "History has shown us time again, appeasement does not work. The only way to beat a dictator is with defiance. The only way to beat fascism is to refuse to accept this segregated, divided, dark, dystopian view that they have for our country, is to reject it as an inevitability." She called on Americans to "resist, reject, condemn at every turn." But it's that kind of rhetoric that Republicans have argued is responsible for sending tensions across the U.S. skyrocketing. SPANBERGER'S ICE ROLLBACK TO BLAME FOR TODDLER KILLING, VIRGINIA 'HOTBED' OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIME: DHS GOP allies of the president have accused Democrats of encouraging violence and resistance against ICE agents, drawing a…