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Progressive Democrats introduced a bill in the House Thursday that would shut down U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within one year of enactment – part of a movement that has growing support but that's also getting criticized by moderate Democrats as well as Republicans.
House Speaker Paul Ryan was incredulous: “They have really jumped the sharks on the left.”
Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., sponsored the legislation, along with Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Adriano Espaillat D-N.Y., who are both themselves immigrants. All three have criticized the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy,” the immigration crackdown which has resulted in the separation of children and parents and the creation of makeshift tent cities and “tender age shelters” to house the recent influx of immigrants.
The bill’s sponsors say they introduced the measure because they believe ICE is too corrupt to reform.
The bill responds to a growing left-wing movement to abolish ICE, whose message has been amplified by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Socialist candidate who gained national attention for her upset primary win in New York on a platform of economic and social justice.
Both Republicans and skeptical Democrats have asked what would replace the agency, which, in addition to detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants, investigates criminal activity such as human smuggling and sex trafficking.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/progressive-democrats-introduce-bill-abolish-ice/story?id=56537797
You can't deport people who have been here for years, you can't deport people who just got here, you can't stop people from coming here who aren't here yet and now we need to get rid of immigration enforcement entirely...
House Speaker Paul Ryan was incredulous: “They have really jumped the sharks on the left.”
Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., sponsored the legislation, along with Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Adriano Espaillat D-N.Y., who are both themselves immigrants. All three have criticized the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy,” the immigration crackdown which has resulted in the separation of children and parents and the creation of makeshift tent cities and “tender age shelters” to house the recent influx of immigrants.
The bill’s sponsors say they introduced the measure because they believe ICE is too corrupt to reform.
The bill responds to a growing left-wing movement to abolish ICE, whose message has been amplified by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Socialist candidate who gained national attention for her upset primary win in New York on a platform of economic and social justice.
Both Republicans and skeptical Democrats have asked what would replace the agency, which, in addition to detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants, investigates criminal activity such as human smuggling and sex trafficking.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/progressive-democrats-introduce-bill-abolish-ice/story?id=56537797
You can't deport people who have been here for years, you can't deport people who just got here, you can't stop people from coming here who aren't here yet and now we need to get rid of immigration enforcement entirely...