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Obama DHS Sec Rebukes Dems: Abolishing ICE ‘Would Compromise Public Safety’
thedailycaller ^ | 7/7/18 | Scott Morefield

Posted on 07/08/2018 8:35:48 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhodhs; bordersecurity; ice; jehjohnson
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1 posted on 07/08/2018 8:35:48 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Translation: “Not now, not yet.”


2 posted on 07/08/2018 8:37:28 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: ColdOne

Damage control. Them internal polls are a killer.


3 posted on 07/08/2018 8:37:53 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think you are correct.


4 posted on 07/08/2018 8:40:28 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ColdOne

looks like the polls are in.


5 posted on 07/08/2018 8:41:48 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ColdOne

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.


6 posted on 07/08/2018 8:45:22 AM PDT by yoe (A vote for President Trump is a vote for America.)
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To: ColdOne

Opps...


7 posted on 07/08/2018 8:46:18 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Damage control. Them internal polls are a killer.

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Bullseye!


8 posted on 07/08/2018 8:50:51 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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.

9 posted on 07/08/2018 8:51:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yup. They know they went too far.


10 posted on 07/08/2018 8:52:49 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: ColdOne

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.


11 posted on 07/08/2018 8:52:54 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: ColdOne

This has been a big misunderstanding.

They’ve all been misspelling LICE.


12 posted on 07/08/2018 8:53:02 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: ColdOne

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.


13 posted on 07/08/2018 8:54:25 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: ColdOne

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


14 posted on 07/08/2018 9:01:53 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: TMA62
(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!

15 posted on 07/08/2018 9:06:12 AM PDT by yoe (A vote for President Trump is a vote for America.)
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To: ColdOne

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

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


16 posted on 07/08/2018 9:22:25 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: ColdOne

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.


17 posted on 07/08/2018 9:24:42 AM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: ColdOne

18 posted on 07/08/2018 9:39:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: ColdOne

Sorry, Jeh, no more cocktail parties for you!


19 posted on 07/08/2018 9:41:11 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Trump should tweet that cartoon..pretty good


20 posted on 07/08/2018 9:45:17 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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