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.
In other words, just let everyone in who wants to come here, put them on welfare, with healthcare, education, housing, and voter ID cards.
EinNYC calls for abolishing this filthy selfish corrupt commie fiend AND his commie minions who are repeatedly plunging the entire city into a vat of feces over and over again.
How predictable. I think we should abolish De Blasio.
Surprised he hasn’t abolished the NYPD
Yep...That’s exactly what the RATS are after.
Democrats are putting together quite a campaign platform.
Isn’t that what we’ve been doing?
I call for abolishing deBlasio.
Poop in one hand, wish in the other...
5.56mm
Lets hope they continue on this track, it’s pretty clear to me they’re out of touch with the majority of Americans.
Agreed!
Abolish Liberals
Did he come out as a Democratic Socialist?
I believe he’s said in the past that he supports Democrat socialism.
Blasio if he is a true commie would be more for the traditional commie country border approach of a DMZ, mine fields, gun towers and full military manning and control over the border and tightly controlled crossings. The commie way.
I call for doubling ICE’s personnel and budget.
Open Borders people are killing the nation.
It’s disgusting.
I believe he’s said in the past that he supports Democrat socialism.
I think this a-hole would be happier with Stalinist Communism.
Abolish borders. That’s a winning strategy. Woooo hooo! a-holes.
The military should secure every inch of the Southern border.
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