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De Blasio calls for abolishing ICE
The Hill ^ | June 29, 2018 | Max Greenwood

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: abolishice; aliens; bluezones; deblasio; democrats; dhs; ice; illeagalaliens; looneyleft; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; openborders; secretarynielsen
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To: jazusamo

In other words, just let everyone in who wants to come here, put them on welfare, with healthcare, education, housing, and voter ID cards.


21 posted on 06/29/2018 10:09:36 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
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To: Tennessee Nana
Nana calls for abolishing the position of NYC mayor...

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.

22 posted on 06/29/2018 10:16:00 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: jazusamo

How predictable. I think we should abolish De Blasio.


23 posted on 06/29/2018 10:16:29 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: lgjhn23

Surprised he hasn’t abolished the NYPD


24 posted on 06/29/2018 10:16:42 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Yep...That’s exactly what the RATS are after.


25 posted on 06/29/2018 10:17:05 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Democrats are putting together quite a campaign platform.


26 posted on 06/29/2018 10:17:42 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Isn’t that what we’ve been doing?


27 posted on 06/29/2018 10:18:27 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Political Junkie Too
All right stop Collaborate and listen ICE is back with my brand new invention
28 posted on 06/29/2018 10:20:47 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: jazusamo

I call for abolishing deBlasio.

Poop in one hand, wish in the other...

5.56mm


29 posted on 06/29/2018 10:20:51 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: morphing libertarian

Lets hope they continue on this track, it’s pretty clear to me they’re out of touch with the majority of Americans.


30 posted on 06/29/2018 10:21:11 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo


31 posted on 06/29/2018 10:22:15 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats." — P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: M Kehoe

Agreed!


32 posted on 06/29/2018 10:23:55 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Abolish Liberals


33 posted on 06/29/2018 10:25:34 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: jazusamo

Did he come out as a Democratic Socialist?


34 posted on 06/29/2018 10:29:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I believe he’s said in the past that he supports Democrat socialism.


35 posted on 06/29/2018 10:33:13 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

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.


36 posted on 06/29/2018 10:38:13 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: jazusamo

I call for doubling ICE’s personnel and budget.

Open Borders people are killing the nation.

It’s disgusting.


37 posted on 06/29/2018 10:41:49 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: jazusamo

I believe he’s said in the past that he supports Democrat socialism.

I think this a-hole would be happier with Stalinist Communism.


38 posted on 06/29/2018 10:42:04 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Washinton DC, District of Corruption proven daily)
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To: jazusamo

Abolish borders. That’s a winning strategy. Woooo hooo! a-holes.


39 posted on 06/29/2018 10:42:17 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: redcatcherb412

The military should secure every inch of the Southern border.


40 posted on 06/29/2018 10:42:50 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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