Jason Houser Joins America’s Voice Event on Mass Deportation

On October 16, 2025, Jason Houser, former ICE Chief of Staff, joined a virtual panel with Illinois & Oregon state officials, civil rights leaders and and other immigration experts to decry the harms of reckless mass deportations:

Event Excerpt:

Jason Houser, former Chief of Staff of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stated, “We are at a very perilous time, in my view, for both providing a humane immigration system and also the sort of destruction that we’re seeing in the accountability for both law enforcement at the federal level and ICE officers themselves that are being directed to carry out these operations. As you can see from the volume of these at-large arrests and the tactics that are being used, this provides no real public safety outcome. Additionally, from an ICE enforcement perspective, it makes the work of focusing on public safety and security threats harder. They are dismantling the trust between law enforcement and ICE, its authorities, and its space within national security and public safety mission in law enforcement.”

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