WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), released a report highlighting firsthand accounts of twenty-two Americans who were physically assaulted, pepper sprayed, denied medical treatment, and detained - sometimes for days - by federal immigration agents. The report contains new details of accounts that have already been made public as well as several encounters that have not been shared previously.
The report, Unchecked Authority: Examining the Trump Administration's Extrajudicial Immigration Detentions Of U.S. Citizens (https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/lib...