In the congresswoman’s own words:
“It needs to be completely dismantled. We didn’t have ICE years ago before 9/11, and I can tell you we were fine. We had Border Patrol, we had all those. I want people to appreciate between that, unpackage that. This is a new agency that came about afterwards. It’s important to know that. This is not the border patrol in the field, this is a different agency that is very, in some cases, rogue.”
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Pushback Against Anti-ICE Rhetoric
Calls to abolish ICE are extremely controversial. While many on the left are all for it, conservatives collectively and overwhelmingly oppose the abolition of ICE. Individuals who favor the right-wing tend to also support legal and merit-based immigration. Conservatives routinely make the case that those who dislike America’s detention centers ought not to enter the country illegally.
Progressives, on the other hand, have a very different outlook. Many left-leaning people note the plights which migrants face in their homelands. That these plights often push migrants to illegally enter America is a common, leftist talking point. Moreover, certain Democrats have commenced supporting the complete decriminalization of illegal immigration altogether.
