Described ICE as a "Rogue agency." Sean McElwee of Data for Progress, an early and tireless advocate of abolishing the agency, wrote in The Nation.
"The call to abolish ICE is, above all, a demand for the Democratic party to begin seriously resisting an unbridled white-supremacist surveillance state that it had a hand in creating."
Mara Liasson of National Public Radio wrote: "Many Democratic strategists were asking why - just when the Democrats were winning the immigration debate - they should adopt a slogan that could backfire on them going into the midterm elections." But what's in question is not merely a slogan.
Of course abolishing ICE is a batty idea then, so have been Republican calls to abolish the IRS, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, etc.
The IRS is a ghastly and corrupt agency, and one might make a case for abolishing it on the grounds that it is institutionally irredeemable, which is of course the argument the Democrats are making against ICE. But if the IRS were abolished tomorrow, somebody.
Are serious about abolishing the law-enforcement agency responsible for immigration issues because they do not really believe that illegal immigration should be a criminal-justice issue at all, but rather think it should be closer to a civil offense or a bookkeeping issue.
Democrats may take seriously the bumper-sticker slogan "No Person Is Illegal." Beto O'Rourke, the Democrat running against Senator Ted Cruz in Texas, has shown himself awfully wormy on the question, insisting that he is "Open to doing whatever it takes" to reform immigration practices but unwilling to endorse ICE's abolition even as he left unchallenged a Houston activist's insistence that the agency is a "Terroristic organization," a charge also made by Cynthia Nixon, who is running for governor of New York.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/08/13/abolish-ice-democrats-lawless-immigration-preference/
"The call to abolish ICE is, above all, a demand for the Democratic party to begin seriously resisting an unbridled white-supremacist surveillance state that it had a hand in creating."
Mara Liasson of National Public Radio wrote: "Many Democratic strategists were asking why - just when the Democrats were winning the immigration debate - they should adopt a slogan that could backfire on them going into the midterm elections." But what's in question is not merely a slogan.
Of course abolishing ICE is a batty idea then, so have been Republican calls to abolish the IRS, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, etc.
The IRS is a ghastly and corrupt agency, and one might make a case for abolishing it on the grounds that it is institutionally irredeemable, which is of course the argument the Democrats are making against ICE. But if the IRS were abolished tomorrow, somebody.
Are serious about abolishing the law-enforcement agency responsible for immigration issues because they do not really believe that illegal immigration should be a criminal-justice issue at all, but rather think it should be closer to a civil offense or a bookkeeping issue.
Democrats may take seriously the bumper-sticker slogan "No Person Is Illegal." Beto O'Rourke, the Democrat running against Senator Ted Cruz in Texas, has shown himself awfully wormy on the question, insisting that he is "Open to doing whatever it takes" to reform immigration practices but unwilling to endorse ICE's abolition even as he left unchallenged a Houston activist's insistence that the agency is a "Terroristic organization," a charge also made by Cynthia Nixon, who is running for governor of New York.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/08/13/abolish-ice-democrats-lawless-immigration-preference/
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