Posted on 06/29/2018 9:37:45 AM PDT by jazusamo
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished, saying that the agency has "become a punitive, negative tool for division," and is "no longer acceptable."
In calling for the agency to be disbanded, de Blasio echoed comments made by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a political newcomer who vanquished Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) in a Democratic primary race on Tuesday.
"You need some kind of agency to deal with immigration, but ICE is not that," de Blasio said on "The Brian Lehrer Show" on WYNC. "ICE has proven it can't be that. ICE's time has come and gone; it is broken. ICE has been sent on a very negative, divisive mission, and it cannot function the way it is."
"So I think Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is right," he added. "We should abolish ICE. We should create something better, something different."
Calls to do away with ICE have grown in recent days amid a public furor over the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy mandating the prosecution of all people who cross into the U.S. illegally through Mexico.
That policy has led thousands of migrant children to be separated from their parents or guardians at the southern border – a practice that has drawn widespread condemnation.
At least 19 ICE investigators have signed a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen calling for the agency to be dissolved and for its work to be shifted to another bureau.
Trump signed an executive order last week allowing children to be detained alongside their parents. But exactly how that order will be implemented remains unclear, because minors are only allowed to be held for 20 days.
A federal judge in San Diego also responded to a lawsuit over the family separations this week by ordering the government to move quickly to reunite children with their parents. Children under the age of 5 must be reunited with their families within 14 days, while the government must reunite older children within 30 days, the order says.
Blasio is the one that should be “abolished”. Whadda an idiot.
Give all illegal invaders the address to Bill De Fakio’s home and his bank account routing numbers.
De Fakio can house and finance the illegal invasion himself.
Let’s see how that works for him.
If he gets rid of ice, drinks are going to be hot in NY!
By “division” he means “border”.
If you abolish ICE...then hire new folks, the first thing they bring up is that you have laws on the books which we must enforce, and right away....De Blasio and company will say that they also must be dumped and abolished because they just want people who play fake enforcement of the law.
CLEARLY the DNC has handed out this songsheet to the RATS and their media sycophants, possibly through that second journo list that was recently uncovered.
[[saying that the agency has “become a punitive]]
Of Course it has- that’s what happens when people break our laws- they get punished- what’s the problem? Is Deblasion suggesting that certain classes of people are immune to punishment?
Bump!
Raving anti-American commie freak — take your trash and move to Venezuela.
Interesting a Democratic politician wants to abolish a government agency.
It’s the E in ICE that offends them.
They want NO enforcement.
The only agency they want is the one that hands out citizenship and freebies.
Clinton changed the name after the Elian Gonzalez fiasco because of the bad rap that INS got.
So, we're getting calls to do it again?
-PJ
Only the one that deports his voters......
That’s an easy call for New Yorkers. Can we hear an amen from the dimocrats in AZ and NM and TX?
Nana calls for abolishing the position of NYC mayor...
Immigration and Naturalization Service - INS
Immigration and Customs Enforcement - ICE
It doesn’t matter what we call it, the Democrats and Bush League Republicans desperately do not want US sending home the 30 million people they invited here against the will of the citizens.
Amen to that.
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Raving anti-American commie freak — take your trash and move to Venezuela.
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I know you’re joking - but part of me thinks the problem is not going to be solved until we get our enemy out of our country.
Unfortunately, the enemy IS half the country, so getting them out creates a bit of a problem.
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