Obama DHS Sec Rebukes Dems: Abolishing ICE ‘Would Compromise Public Safety’

thedailycaller ^ | 7/7/18 | Scott Morefield

[ColdOne]

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson pushed back against Democrats calling for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to be abolished in a Friday op-ed published in the Washington Post.

The op-ed, titled, “Abolishing ICE is not a serious policy proposal,” likened demands to abolish ICE to a hypothetical demand from those who wanted to end the Vietnam war by abolishing “the entire Defense Department.”

“Obviously, that would have completely compromised national security,” Johnson wrote, adding that ending the agency “would compromise public safety” as well.

“Calls to abolish ICE only serve to sow even greater division in the American public and in its political leadership, damaging any remaining prospect of bipartisan immigration reform,” wrote Johnson.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Translation: “Not now, not yet.”

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Damage control. Them internal polls are a killer.

[ColdOne]

I think you are correct.

[gibsonguy]

looks like the polls are in.

[yoe]

Progressives, Resisters, “Socialists, Democrats...call them what ever you want....this abolish ICE hue and cry was meant to stymie President Trump’s progress as POTUS....however, they failed again.

[TMA62]

Opps...

[laplata]

Damage control. Them internal polls are a killer.

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Bullseye!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Damage control. Them internal polls are a killer.

BINGO! "Cool it, you idiots. We are going to get creamed if you keep that up."

In the Obama regimes, nobody ever said anything sensible unless they were forced to in order to win votes.

[EdnaMode]

Yup. They know they went too far.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

From the left’s perspective, he has no credibility here: he’s not an “undocumented immigrant”; ergo, his opinion about the oppression of undocumented immigrants is irrelevant.

[savedbygrace]

This has been a big misunderstanding.

They’ve all been misspelling LICE.

[allendale]

The only fear that some Democrats have about their candidates calling for the abolition of ICE, open borders and socialism is that all Democrats will be severely punished at the polls by the American people.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Jeh was never totally in Obama’s camp. He had to bury most of his work.

[yoe]

(Take another look).... Obama's goal, according to a close family friend, is to oust Trump from the presidency either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment.

Spurred on by Jarrett and Michelle, the ex-president has come to embrace his role as the leader of the opposition against Trump, whose policies he loathes and whose presidency he considers illegitimate.

The Obamas like the Clintons love power and will do almost anything to keep it. President Trump's presidency illegitimate? My gosh, from an ex-president who abused the US Constitution, covered for a corrupt election/woman....the list is long....BHO & Michelle aren't giving up their thrones

....easily! They love the hi-life!

[CIB-173RDABN]

Abolishing ICE is no more then the current “closing gitmo”!

Red meat for their base but a non starter in real life.

[b4me]

at least one of that political party has a moment of sanity.

Unreal it took this long for him to speak up.

Very troubling other leaders in their party are not speaking similarly but mostly encouraging or otherwise enabling this stupidity.

[Grampa Dave]

[cgbg]

Sorry, Jeh, no more cocktail parties for you!

[janetjanet998]

Trump should tweet that cartoon..pretty good