US EditionHouse Democrat introducing legislation to abolish ICE
Rep. Shri Thanedar calls ICE 'beyond reform' and plans legislation to abolish the agency amid protests after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
- On Wednesday, Rep. Shri Thanedar, Representative , announced on Capitol Hill a bill this week to abolish ICE, calling the agency `beyond reform` and citing `murders`.
- Last week, a protester was shot and killed in Minneapolis when ICE agent Jonathan Ross fired three shots at Renee Good, and DHS said Ross acted according to his training.
- Sen. Chris Murphy proposed a multipronged reform package keeping Border Patrol on the border, banning masks, requiring identification and warrants, and said these pragmatic steps could reach the President by the Jan. 30 funding deadline.
- Murphy urged using appropriations to force compliance, while Politico reported many Democrats are ready to fund DHS with conditions despite Rep. Maxwell Frost opposing any Homeland Security spending.
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Does Congress have the power to abolish ICE?
NEW YORK (PIX11) – As tensions boil in Minneapolis and across the country, a growing coalition of Congress members is calling for an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But is it within their power to completely dismantle ICE? Since Congress creates government agencies, it has the sole power to eliminate them, according to Erwin [...]
Democrats’ dilemma: Progressive push to 'Abolish ICE' sparks fresh divide in party
Calls to abolish ICE by some progressive Democrats are sparking a new divide in the party, as center-left groups warn about a political backlash and instead urge messaging to reform the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency."We must reform ICE. But it looks at this stage, folks, ICE is beyond reform," Democratic Rep. Shri Thanedar told reporters on Wednesday. "ICE is totally out of control, and this week I intend to introduce a bill to abol…
House Democrat introducing legislation to abolish ICE: ‘Beyond reform’
Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) is making a push to dismantle Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), calling the federal law enforcement agency “beyond reform.” Thanedar plans to introduce the “Abolish ICE Act” this week, which his office said would dissolve the agency and end its enforcement authority. “We must reform ICE, but it looks at this…
Abolish ICE for Good
I have been dreading writing this column all week. There are so many things I’d rather be doing: laundry, taxes, prepping for a colonoscopy. I just really don’t want to write. Not this, anyway. Not right now. And yet, I have a deadline and an obligation. So here goes. Let me start off by saying that we need to abolish ICE. I’m hearing lots of chatter about how ICE needs more, better training. No, they do not. The issue with ICE killing people …
'Abolish ICE' Is a Loser for Democrats
As the Trump administration has ramped up ICE activity across the country, many Americans, especially Democrats, have grown outraged by the perception that ICE is acting with impunity and fearful that events like those playing out in Minneapolis illustrate the country's slow decline into authoritarianism-feelings that are
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