Vice President Kamala Harris, poised to succeed President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for president, has previously expressed support for the “Abolish ICE” movement.
This movement advocates for the dismantling of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for detaining and deporting illegal aliens.
The Abolish ICE movement gained momentum within the Democratic Party in mid-2018, when open borders activists demanded an end to all arrests and deportations of illegal aliens. Upon taking office in late January 2021, Biden and Harris temporarily halted deportations for 100 days.
In June 2018, MSNBC reporter Kasie Hunt interviewed Harris, a United States senator representing California at the time, about her position on the Abolish ICE movement.
“A lot of the signs at the rally you just held were people standing there saying, ‘Abolish ICE.’ Is that a position that you agree with?” Hunt asked.
“Listen, I think there’s no question that we’ve got to critically reexamine ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing, and we need to probably think about starting from scratch because there’s a lot that is wrong with the way that it is conducting itself, and we need to deal with that,” Harris answered.
Harris went on to say that ICE’s “mission is very much in question and has to be reexamined.”
At the time, had ICE been abolished five years prior, there would have been about 1.4 million criminal illegal aliens released into American communities rather than being arrested and deported from the U.S.
Soon after taking office, Biden named Harris the White House’s “border czar” — putting her in charge of the nation’s illegal immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Critics assert that the Biden-Harris administration has been effectively dismantling ICE from within by implementing significant policy changes aimed at reducing the number of illegal aliens arrested and deported from within the U.S.
ICE data from Fiscal Year 2023 revealed that illegal aliens have just a less than five percent chance of being deported from the U.S. on Biden and Harris’s watch.
In Fiscal Year 2023, over 3.2 million illegal aliens were encountered at the nation’s borders, while ICE agents deported only 142,580 individuals during the same period. This means that illegal aliens arriving in the U.S. in 2023 had just a 4.4 percent chance of being deported within the year.
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Since Joe Biden’s first day in office, we have witnessed the devastating harm wrought by his unrelenting effort to dismantle interior immigration enforcement.
— National Immigration Center for Enforcement (@NICEnforcement) July 21, 2024
Kamala Harris wants to go a step further and actually ABOLISH ICE.pic.twitter.com/4ySBDEIWJ2
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