Posted on 06/28/2018 7:13:20 AM PDT by jazusamo
Democratic lawmakers and candidates are increasingly seeking the elimination of Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of their suite of demands in D.C.'s heated border battle.
The calls reflect not only the deepening divide between the two partisan poles on immigration -- with one side seeking a border wall, and the other looking to dismantle the lead enforcement agency -- but the growing influence of the progressive wing.
More and more Democratic politicians have embraced such causes as 'Medicare for all' and a federal jobs guarantee. Now, they're getting behind the call to abolish ICE, with gusto.
Perhaps no 2018 moment better captured that growing influence than liberal primary challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's shocking victory Tuesday night over Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., a member of party leadership.
Ocasio-Cortez ran on all three of those platforms, and even protested outside an ICE center in Texas.
Crowley had hardly used moderate language in his description of ICE, making do with calling it a “fascist” organization that needed to be put “back on its leash.”
But that stance apparently was not enough for Democratic primary voters, who overwhelmingly backed Ocasio-Cortez. In comments to CNN Wednesday morning after her primary win, she went even further and claimed ICE was running “black sites” at the border. “Its extra-judicial nature is baked into the structure of the agency and that is why they are able to get away with black sites at our border, with the separation of children,” she said.
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america is beginning to ‘demand’ that dems go $%^& themselves for their evil agenda
I heard they want to replace ICE with the “new” Boy Scouts.
“My take: Why not just practice self-immolation? Don’t take me down with you.”
No, you fail to understand them. Their ULTIMATE goal is to RULE OVER US, not just have their own Communistic societies. If they wanted that, there’s plenty of options, like Jim Jones for starters.
THEY HATE US and are determined to PUNISH US for who we are. There is literally NOTHING we can do to change their opinion of us, and the only way to fight them is to NEVER give them the power they crave...we have to stay UNITED and fight them off...until they are relegated to a Third Party, getting, maybe 15% of the vote.
Please do! Show the Right what ideological integrity looks like.
Maxine the crazy congresswoman, or Maxine the homicidal car? Or are they one and the same?
Bernie Sanders turns age 79 in 2020.
Wait. I thought we were to hold all Federal law enforcement agencies in high esteem. Dems are SO confusing!!!!
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