Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) revealed that he was going to be introducing a invoice that may abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming that ICE was “past reform.”
Throughout a press convention on Wednesday, Thanedar accused ICE of being “completely uncontrolled.” Thanedar additionally accused ICE of “working past management” beneath Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s “management.”
Thanedar went on so as to add that he was “proud to have co-sponsored a decision” to question Noem, accusing her of misusing “taxpayer funds,” mendacity to his “homeland safety committee,” and “main an company, main ICE, that’s committing crimes throughout America.”
“And, we should lastly — we should, we should reform ICE, but it surely seems to be at this stage of us, ICE is past reform. ICE is completely uncontrolled and this week, I intend to introduce a invoice to abolish ICE,” Thanedar mentioned. “We have to make ICE go away.”
A press launch from Thanedar from January 9 explains that the Democrat Congressman is planning to introduce the Abolish ICE Act, which might “dismantle the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and finish its present enforcement authority.”
The press launch got here days after an ICE agent fatally shot a girl, Renee Good, who was accused of getting “weaponized her automobile.”
“The tragic demise of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old mom fatally shot by an ICE agent, exhibits that ICE can’t be reformed and have to be abolished” Thanedar mentioned in an announcement. “The Abolish ICE Act is a step towards justice, accountability, and a extra humane strategy to immigration coverage.”
Breitbart Information’s AWR Hawkins reported that on the time of capturing, “A gaggle of individuals started attempting to dam ICE brokers” from conducting operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota:
NBC Information reported {that a} group of individuals started attempting to dam ICE brokers as they had been finishing up “focused operations” in Minneapolis. In the middle of this, a girl allegedly used her automobile to assault brokers.
On the time, DHS defined in a put up on X {that a} girl “weaponized her automobile,” and tried “to run over” ICE officers.
“At this time, ICE officers in Minneapolis had been conducting focused operations when rioters started blocking ICE officers and one in all these violent rioters weaponized her automobile, trying to run over our legislation enforcement officers in an try and kill them—an act of home terrorism,” Homeland Safety wrote in a put up from January 7.
Noem has shared that whereas ICE officers had been out on an “enforcement motion” they tried to “push out their automobile” after getting caught within the snow. Noem added {that a} “girl attacked them.”
“A lady attacked them, and people surrounding them, and tried to run them over, and ram them together with her automobile,” Noem shared. “An officer of ours acted shortly, and defensively shot to guard himself and the folks round him.”
