Democrats in Texas Senate race call for ICE overhaul, hours after Minnesota shooting

Source: NBC News

Jan. 24, 2026, 5:29 PM EST / Updated Jan. 24, 2026, 7:15 PM EST


Hours after federal immigration agents killed a man in Minneapolis, the top Democrats running for U.S. Senate in Texas appeared on a debate stage together and both called for overhauling Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Just minutes into the debate between Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico, which was hosted by the Texas AFL-CIO and moderated by Nexstar’s KXAN-TV and The Dallas Morning News, Crockett referenced the shooting by Department of Homeland Security agents. She pointed to the incident to lay out the stakes of the race ahead of the March 3 primary.

“Listen, we are not looking at politics as usual. Just today, we just had another person gunned down in the streets in Minneapolis,” Crockett said. “And so for anyone that believes that we are going to be able to respond to this in a normal way, I think that they’ve got it wrong.”

Crockett and Talarico also agreed on a range of liberal positions as they fight to flip a Republican-leaning state, including saying that President Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses and that changing the makeup of the Supreme Court should be considered. Crockett defended her recent vote against a DHS funding bill, saying, “There was no way I was going to continue to pump a historic amount of money into this rogue organization that is going out and is violating people’s rights every single day in American cities.”

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