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turbinetree

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 02:48 PM Jun 2018

Trump attacks 'abolish ICE' movement on the morning of massive nationwide protest

Trump — who routinely attacks the military, veterans, and their families — tweets that ICE is "great!"

ADAM PECK JUN 30, 2018, 12:21 PM


For months, activists have been calling for the dissolution of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the government agency now responsible for carrying out the Trump administration’s racist “zero tolerance” immigration policy.

The proposal was largely confined to the most progressive wings of the Democratic Party until the last two weeks, when Donald Trump’s efforts to kidnap immigrant children from their homes and their parents and place them in makeshift prison camps came to light. Since then, calls to abolish ICE have grown from a whisper to a shout.

Several progressive Democratic candidates have made the abolishment of ICE a central platform of their campaigns, and a handful of incumbent Democrats have taken up the mantle as well.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-twitter-abolish-ice-39877b65745e/

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It’s unclear in what fever dream Trump witnessed ICE’s liberation of town after town from the clutches of MS-13, but ICE’s competency is not in dispute: they have none.

An Inspector General’s report published this week by the Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency in which ICE is housed, found that ICE does an inadequate job of inspecting and maintaining its facilities, and fails to correct poor practices.

Presumably, those lamentable practices include incidents like one in Kansas City, Missouri, where an ICE agent assaulted an immigration lawyer who was reuniting a child kidnapped by the Trump administration with her mother. The lawyer sustained a broken foot and several cuts...........................

November 2018 cannot get here fast enough...........................vote

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