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Here at home, Representative Haley Stevens is stepping up her fight to stop an ICE detention facility from being placed in the area.
Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be opening a facility in Romulus. Representative Stevens, as well as other local members of Congress, have now sent a letter to DHS calling on it to reverse that decision.
Five Democratic U.S. Representatives from Michigan sent a letter on Thursday to Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin to oppose the development of a planned ICE detention facility in Romulus.
Rep. Haley Stevens of Birmingham led the letter and was joined by Reps. Debbie Dingell of Ann Arbor, Hillary Scholten of Grand Rapids, Kristen McDonald Rivet of Bay City, and Shri Thanedar of Detroit — almost the entire Democratic delegation to the U.S. House from Michigan.
A coalition of five Michigan Democrats are urging the federal government to reverse its plan to turn a warehouse in a Detroit suburb into an immigration detention center.
They sent a June 11 letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, pushing for the agency to “reverse the decision” to convert a Romulus warehouse into a 500-bed federal facility.
We’re taking a step to address the national security consideration with Chinese technologies and automobiles, and also the economic point of this.”
“We’re gonna be aggressive, here, because Michigan jobs are on the line, but also so is national security. So, close our border to Chinese vehicles and Chinese technology in the vehicles, even for day trips. That’s how aggressive we believe we need to be right now.”
Senator Slotkin: “It’s just banning Chinese cars from coming over our bridges and tunnels and over our Southern border.”
Senator Slotkin: “We’re just seeing the Chinese industry purposefully floods countries like Mexico, like Germany, and completely destroy the local industry.”
Senator Elissa Slotkin and Congresswoman Haley Stevens talking about bipartisan legislation to make sure that Chinese EV car companies can’t just dump cars here for two reasons: one, it’s bad for our security, our cybersecurity, because those cars can take pictures of sensitive places all across the country, but also, because of our economy.
Senator Slotkin: “Everyone says American cars collect the same information. Yes, but they’re also American companies that are subject to American laws. The Chinese Communist Party is not.”
Democratic U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens announced a joint effort Wednesday to ban all entry of Chinese nameplate vehicles from Canada and Mexico into the United States, even for temporary visits to border cities in states like Michigan, California and Texas.
“I didn’t see one voice from Michigan with him. I didn’t see a voice for Michigan manufacturing, Michigan autoworkers.”
“We have seen repeatedly over the last year and a half this President sell us out, sell out Michigan manufacturing at the expense of his border global visions of grandeur”
Some say it's not a matter of if but a matter of when cheap EVs from China are introduced into the markets in the United States
“This is also why I am leading the charge on legislation to lessen our dependence on China.”
“Our critical and rare earth minerals – to see those processed and refined here in the United States, here in Michigan, again good Michigan jobs that we want to create, that we want to grow.”