House Democrats are launching a renewed campaign to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) Washington, DC, home was raided this week by federal agents as part of a probe into whether or not the Somali-born congresswoman committed immigration fraud.
\n\nRep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) officially introduced the Reimagining Safety Act, just one day after the raid on Omar’s residence by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents:
\n\nEvery person dead in detention, shot or killed by ICE and CBP, every neighbor deported to a third country, every family separated, every community FEMA failed, every miscarriage due to substandard care, every dissenter wrongfully branded, targeted, and persecuted as ‘terrorist,’ and every threat against our elections by [President] Trump, Markwayne [Mullin], and [Stephen] Miller is a reason DHS must be dismantled and something new must take its place. There are more than a million reasons to take action today.
\n\nAccording to Ramirez, the legislation would “dismantle DHS,” including ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and replace it with a “Department of Community Safety.”
\n\nIn abolishing ICE, Ramirez’s bill, co-sponsored by Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), and Jim McGovern (D-MA), would halt…
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