"...I am both heartened and surprised to see Democratic politicians likewise adopt Abolish ICE as a rallying cry and campaign slogan.
...I am surprised, because the Democratic Party presided over the deportation of 203,674 people in 2014, and 193,217 people the year before, to take but two examples....This mass expulsion did not occur over the objection of Democrats, but was instead facilitated by programs they created and legislation they championed.
...I hope Abolish ICE spreads further beyond the progressive wing of the party.
I fear, though, that focusing on the agency obscures the real message behind the hashtag, which is not about merely scrapping a single agency, but about a total abolition of our immigration enforcement system as it presently exists.
...Want to end illegal immigration?
Make migration legal.
Abolishing ICE is an urgent and necessary step, but it cannot be the outer limit of our imagination..."
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