{"id":17906,"date":"2026-01-19T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/van-hollen-ice-agents-are-the-ones-breaking-the-law-not-the-peaceful-protesters\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:22:09","slug":"van-hollen-ice-agents-are-the-ones-breaking-the-law-not-the-peaceful-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/van-hollen-ice-agents-are-the-ones-breaking-the-law-not-the-peaceful-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Hollen: &#8216;ICE agents are the ones breaking the law, not the peaceful protesters\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Sunday, saying it needs &ldquo;dramatic reform&rdquo; after recent turmoil surrounding the agency. &ldquo;ICE agents are the ones breaking the law, not the peaceful protesters. So, I believe we should not be funding an ICE operation that is completely lawless&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/5695169-van-hollen-ice-reform-criticism\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Sunday, saying it needs &ldquo;dramatic reform&rdquo; after recent turmoil surrounding the agency. &ldquo;ICE agents are the ones breaking the law, not the peaceful protesters. So, I believe we should not be funding an ICE operation that is completely lawless&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}