"I do not think ICE works as expected," Gillibrand said Thursday night on CNN's "Cuomo PrimeTime." I believe it has become a deportation force, and I think You Should Separate Criminal Justice From Immigration Issues. "
The rapid escalation was years in the making.
Progressive Immigration Rights Defenders – During Republican and democratic administrations – have come to regard the ICE as a rogue agency that terrorized immigrant communities.Appeals to its dissolution, once rare, spread.
A group of 19 agents of the ICE Homeland Security Investigations Unit, which deals with complex investigations including transnational crime, recently wrote a letter to Nielsen asking him to dismember the agency amidst what they describe. as a debilitating confusion with ICE. They feared that the measures taken by the Execution and Detention Operations Division would make the work of HSI impossible.
In their message – first reported by The Texas Observer – the agents reported that some jurisdictions had accepted to "associate with HSI as long as the name" ICE "is excluded from any public information." [19659002] On Capitol Hill, MP Mark Pocan of Wisconsin is now working with his fellow Democratic representatives, Pramila Jayapal, of Washington State, and Adriano Espaillat, of New York, on a law to eliminate the law. agency
. aggressive actions by the ICE had led him to conclude that he was actually serving as President Donald Trump's "own political police" – a tool to create a sense of crisis in order to help to build a
For Pocan, the appeal of Trump
sunday to return immigrants who illegally enter the country without judicial proceedings was the drop of water.
"The culmination of all these things I went to the border and when the president started talking about due process, is not it?" You're just a bit like it's all gone astray and we have to start over. "
But there is now dissidence in the ranks of Democrats.
Prominent progressives, such as Sens. Bernie Sanders of Le Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, have stopped calling for the ICE to be terminated and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus circulated points of advice advising caution – arguing in a note obtained by CNN that "abolish ICE without changing the disastrous immigration policy of President Trump not solve the problem. "They Are Not Alone Some progressives on the Hill are concerned that the use of the Abolish ICE banner is a political gift for Trump and his allies, and that Democrats should consider a more nuanced approach.
Republicans are launching progressive calls to abolish the agency and the Democratic Party's recent drive as a far-left movement, proof that Democrats are weak on border security and the United States. # 39; application of immigration.
dangerously misguided, "said spokeswoman Jennifer D. Elzea agency in an email. "Instead of being insulted by politically motivated attacks, ICE men and women should be commended for risking their lives and lives every day in the name of national and public security."
"She had a campaign strategy that revolved around ICE, and she was very smart, because (Rep. Joe) Crowley was weak on immigration and she knew that he would never be able to to get where he had to be to win this primary, "McElwee said. "She just hammered it, she did not hesitate to say it, she put it in her ads, she ran on the issue, she challenged him in the debate I think that "Abolir ICE" is what it is today because of its leadership. "
Efforts to intensify the struggle beyond the electoral field are already under way. America's Social Democrats, who reported their biggest increase since Trump's election in the aftermath of the Ocasio-Cortez victory, are planning a national campaign to step up the pressure.
Maria Svart, the national organization's steering group, said that the organization is ready to "lobby whenever possible to raise the story that ICE is horrible, has no place in our communities and must be abolished. "
" It seems different in different places. "" We have sections in all states of countries, and people do everything from guards to camps to birdwatchers, to really raise this issue in the eyes of the public and say, "We do not submit to that." "
The demonstrations have already begun to grow in size and frequency.On Friday afternoon, the Philadelphia police made six arrests outside the CIE office in the middle of a protest "I prefer to go to jail rather than go to a detention center."
Helen Gym recorded and tweeted video scenes.
Activists also seek to broaden the moral dimension of the fight. Wildaliz Bermudez , Hartlands Councilor of the Working Families Party, said the visceral nature of border reporting at the height of the family separation crisis has pushed the movement towards a tipping point.
She compared the situation to white supremacy "There must be a unified front (in response to ICE)," said Bermudez, "because, as when you have people chanting in the street," you will not replace us not ". they do not just talk about Jews, they talk about everybody.
