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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

Hear hear!

The same could be said of the ATF.

Follow this up with the Democrat party which has become nothing but a symbol of divisiveness and hate speech, calling for violence and overthrow of the government on a now daily basis


41 posted on 06/29/2018 10:43:27 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: lgjhn23

He needs to go out on the campaign trail and “help” every Rat candidate that is running!

We should take up a collection and finance him!


42 posted on 06/29/2018 10:44:24 AM PDT by Reily
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To: lgjhn23

he needs to go out on the campaign trail and “help” every Rat candidate that is running!

We should take up a collection and finance him!


43 posted on 06/29/2018 10:45:26 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Bob434

The best way to get rid of a bad Law is to enforce it vigorously.

Of course, I don’t think our Immigration Laws are bad, I think they are weak. I say we adopt Mexico’s Immigration Laws. After all, there are sitting Justices on the SCOTUS who look to Foreign Law to decide Cases.

In my world, every Lamp Post in DC would serve two functions, one of them being to light the Streets.


44 posted on 06/29/2018 10:46:16 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Skywise

Let’s just get rid of state, county and city borders too. Then we won’t need county boards, governors and filthy rat mayors, not to mention their stinking, bloated budgets.


45 posted on 06/29/2018 10:46:21 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: jazusamo

Y’know....

Maybe Trump should oblige DeBlasio and route ALL the illegal immigrants to New York City or any sanctuary city for that matter.

Flood the cities and let them deal with their magnanimous ideology directly. No other state or federal funding or federal government recogniztion.


46 posted on 06/29/2018 10:47:37 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: morphing libertarian

He has tried to neuter the NYPD but the momentum of Giuliani and Bloomberg had carried over but as events in the 48 recently have shown that momentum may be grinding to a halt. This could be a bad summer. My hope is that residents of these minority communities have taken the enormous drop in crime as the default situation and as violence rises they demand the Mayor ensure the NYPD does its job. Red Bill may resist but not for long, especially when the call comes from his so called people.


47 posted on 06/29/2018 10:57:05 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: jazusamo

Something that allows unfettered entrance into the U.S. by whomever can make it here, in other words.


48 posted on 06/29/2018 10:59:50 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Pravious

“...Unfortunately, the enemy IS half the country, so getting them out creates a bit of a problem.”

Well, a huge percentage of these leftists can not think their way out of a paper bag...so getting “rid” of them is a matter of those that think for them...the radical RAT “leadership” that keeps feeding them what they want to hear to keep their votes. If all these “leaders” were to disappear from America tomorrow, it would be nothing but positive for America and its REAL citizens. Imagine how a real, patriotic America would look again -— MAGA!!!


49 posted on 06/29/2018 11:04:25 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: jazusamo

Part I. Part II is issue voter registration cards to anyone in the country for more than 6months. No matter their legal status.


50 posted on 06/29/2018 11:04:28 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: M Kehoe

I thought the point was to abolish him. Wouldn’t pooping in your end cancel that out??


51 posted on 06/29/2018 11:05:58 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance; M Kehoe

“end” should be “hand”

This brain twist brought you courtesy of M.S.


52 posted on 06/29/2018 11:07:36 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: jazusamo

How about the crooked FBI, EPA and ATF first? Then we can talk about ICE


53 posted on 06/29/2018 11:11:37 AM PDT by JayElBee (Time to rethink the Great Society.)
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To: jazusamo

“We should abolish ICE. We should create something better, something different.”

“We could call it “Welcome Wagon”!”

Or maybe UVR. Undocumented Voter Registration...


54 posted on 06/29/2018 11:20:28 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: jazusamo

Bill de Blasio is just one of his 3 names he has gone by. He has had the taxpayers pay at least $11 million for various crimes he has committed while mayor.


55 posted on 06/29/2018 11:22:56 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: EagleUSA

“...Unfortunately, the enemy IS half the country

That may be true for the liberals.
For us it is probably like one third or less.

The number of hard core leftists is dwindling
as their efforts turn off more Americans.


56 posted on 06/29/2018 11:25:28 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68
Or maybe UVR. Undocumented Voter Registration...

That's where it's at in my view. The Rats want immigrants to have voting rights whether illegally here or not and don't give a whit about what they cost taxpayers.

57 posted on 06/29/2018 11:33:18 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

If you think DeBlasio is nuts, check this out:

“Steyer: Maybe We Can Have a ‘Nuclear War’ to Provide a ‘Real Course Correction’ to Trump”

http://freebeacon.com/politics/steyer-maybe-can-nuclear-war-provide-real-course-correction-trump/

Really this guy makes DeBlasio look sane in his call to end law enforcement ... (I assume DeBlsio will call for the end of local police next...)


58 posted on 06/29/2018 11:45:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (David Ignatius sided with Germans against his own country - what a jackass.)
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To: jazusamo
So a socialist and a communist both call for closing ICE, the agency that helps protect and serve American citizens by deporting illegals. Gee, that's surprising.

To these people, separating children from their mothers on the border was horrifying.

So Trump rectifies that with an EO saying the families can remain in tact while being detained.

This is also unacceptable to the liberals.

The only thing they will accept is open borders with no detention at all so illegals, criminals, MS-13 gang bangers, drug smugglers, human traffickers and terrorists can just wander across the line and disappear into the American society without the authorities knowing where they are at.

I mean seriously, what could go wrong following this policy?

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59 posted on 06/29/2018 11:48:30 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: GOPJ

Oh man, Steyer is crazier than a bedbug for even thinking that, let alone saying it even if he did take it back.

I believe DeBlasio has tried to make some idiotic changes as far as the NYPD goes and have read that they aren’t going for it, they’re resisting big time.

It’s amazing to me that a socialist like deblasio was elected mayor, I thought New Yorker’s had more sense.


60 posted on 06/29/2018 12:02:09 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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