Rep. Jasmine Crockett is drawing sharp backlash and new support after blasting federal immigration raids as “modern-day slave patrols” and comparing them to Nazi-era door-to-door roundups.

Speaking at a field hearing in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Texas Democrat described recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations as “pure racism,” pointing to aggressive raids in Minneapolis that followed the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent earlier this month.

“As a civil rights lawyer, I'm incensed. As an American, I'm embarrassed. As a human, I'm infuriated. And as a member of Congress, I am immovable in my pursuit of accountability,” she said.

The hearing, hosted by Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Ilhan Omar focused on how immigration enforcement is playing out on the ground in Minnesota. 

“This is pure racism. I don't know why we want to tinker around with it and pretend as if it's something other than what it is,” Crockett said, calling out the surge in ICE arrests, where agents have been encouraged to racially profile citizens. 

Crockett then went on to share how images of people being detained by ICE reminded her of the historic abuses we’ve learned about from the recent past: from Nazis going “door to door, looking for people as they had to hide out… in an attic” to civil rights protesters attacked by dogs and fire hoses in the 1960s. She argued that the tactics are not just about border security but about who is seen as fully human in the United States.

Crockett said immigration enforcement efforts under Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem mirror that of “modern-day slave patrols, and they have been sanctioned by this Supreme Court.”

“Whoever thought we would live in a country that progress looks like having a Supreme Court that says yes, it is okay to look at somebody or to listen to their accent and give permission to grab them,” Crockett said.

​Crockett, who has backed articles of impeachment against Noem, urged communities to “fight back” through protests, organizing, and voting. “What they can't stand is when you actually fight back,” she told the crowd, casting the moment as a test of whether the country will accept or reject fear-driven policing.

Watch the speech below: