cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/19793
The leadership of the nearly 100-member Congressional Progressive Caucus said Tuesday that it will “oppose all funding” for US immigration enforcement in any upcoming government appropriations bills without substantial reforms, a position laid out as federal agents unleashed by President Donald Trump continued to terrorize communities across the country.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), deputy chair of the CPC, said during a press conference alongside other caucus members that “demanding accountability is not radical.” Omar represents the district where 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross last week.
“Calling for systematic reforms is not extreme,” Omar continued. “This is the bare minimum required to restore safety and justice back to our communities.”
Omar, a frequent target of Trump’s bigotry, said the CPC’s official position is to “oppose all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriation bills until meaningful reforms are enacted to end militarized policing practices.”
“We cannot and we should not continue to fund agencies that operate with impunity, that escalate violence, and that undermine the very freedoms this country claims to uphold,” the congresswoman said. “ICE has no place in terrorizing Minneapolis or any American community.”
The CPC’s press conference marked an intensification of a fight over Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding that erupted in the wake of Good’s killing in Minneapolis last week. ICE, which is part of DHS, currently has a larger budget than that of a dozen national militaries, thanks to a massive infusion of funding approved by congressional Republicans and Donald Trump last summer.
NBC News reported Tuesday that “Democratic opposition has already frozen a DHS measure that was slated to be added to an appropriations package getting a Senate vote this week.”
“Congress may have to fall back on a stopgap bill to prevent a funding lapse for DHS,” the outlet added. “That’s where things get trickier for Democrats. If House Republicans pass a continuing resolution on their own, which would keep DHS running on autopilot, Senate Democrats would again have to choose between accepting it and forcing a partial shutdown.”
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the top Democratic appropriator in the House, said Tuesday that she does “not support increasing funding for ICE” and is “looking at policy riders in the homeland security funding bill to rein in ICE.”
“ICE is terrorizing our communities, and I have called on masked, armed ICE agents to leave our towns,” DeLauro added.
An Economist/YouGov poll released this week found that, for the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE entirely (46%) than oppose it (43%). Democratic support for abolishing ICE is currently at 77%, according to the survey.
In an appearance on MS NOW, Omar said that “we want this terror to stop.”
“People are angry. People are frustrated. They’re confused. They don’t understand why this chaos is necessary,” said Omar. “And they certainly do not want this level of militarized ICE and border agents just roaming the streets, harassing and terrorizing their neighbors.”
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Bro they’re acting like this is abolish the police, no ice was made like 2 seconds ago how is it so hard to imagine a world without them???
25 years ago is ancient history to liberals
They came from the INS too, which gave us the most famous deportation picture under Clinton.
And to libs, the masks Ice are wearing is the problem.
Let’s compromise and roll ICE funding back to pre-2000’s levels
Adjusted to keep up with inflation, of course
of course! Compromise is important! Let me plug that into the compromise calculator0+(0×0.9885)=30,000,000,000
reform ice agents into a souplike homogenate
Came here to say this. Fuckers don’t need reform, they need solar transmutation
“ICE is terrorizing our communities, and I have called on masked, armed ICE agents to leave our towns,” DeLauro added.
“Armed robbers are terrorizing my family, and I have called on masked, armed home invaders to leave my house,” she added. (Gonna have to remember that one, it sounds effective.) “I will be giving them no additional money until they go back outside and ask nicely,” she said.
The SPD demands Gestapo Funding to be cut until “systemic reforms” happen
Legacy Media Hears the Democratic Party Fart and Writes Headline About It
Wtf is this weak shit? Is it really that difficult to abolish ICE and resurrect the INS?
Fucking libs
I know this is probably not the conclusion you’re supposed to draw from this but after 9/11, bin Laden said that was the end of America and I was like dream on fuckwad we gonna build back better and all that but now that we have
federal agents unleashed by President Donald Trump continued to terrorize communities across the country.
it seems that I was the real fuckwad all along. (For those who don’t know, the DHS was created in like 2002 as a response to 9/11 and ICE is a department under them. Together they have sucked up hundreds of billions of dollars that could have, in theory only, gone to public services). Also, in 2002 if someone told me the future news of
federal agents unleashed by President Donald Trump continued to terrorize communities across the country.
I would be totally flabbergasted.
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Feckless compradors
the ratchet be ratcheting
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
