Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) is making a push to dismantle Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), calling the federal law enforcement agency “beyond reform.”

Thanedar plans to introduce the “Abolish ICE Act” this week, which his office said would dissolve the agency and end its enforcement authority. “We must reform ICE, but it looks at this stage, folks, that ICE is beyond reform,” he said during a news conference Wednesday. “ICE is totally out of control.”

He also said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should “face the consequences” and be impeached, arguing federal agencies were able to handle immigration enforcement effectively before ICE was established in 2003.

“We can do this without ICE,” Thanedar said. “We do not need the murders. We do not need this paramilitary organization’s members on our streets terrorizing U.S. citizens, terrorizing moms [and] terrorizing our children.”

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        They limited the letter to ONE please and thank you and even escalated by threatening to contain ZERO in the next one.

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      We always see a handful of people in the party champion the rational policy. And then the leadership turns on them like lupus. The most corrupt and despicable Democrats lynching the healthy and popular members.

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      As we both know if they don’t hold a majority it won’t go anywhere.

      If they don’t have a super majority then when it hits trumps desk it will die.

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    Why are my own representatives fucking SILENT on this. I’m going to get some signs with my name and address and confront ICE where they live, whenever the ICE list gets released. I’m going to handcuff myself and wear a sign loudly proclaiming who I am and dare them to arrest me.

    We’ll see how that goes.

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    And Border Patrol! They are the unaccountable paramilitary organization led & staffed by fanatical loyalists to a single leader, lawlessly occupying & brutalizing & terrorizing minorities and the population centers of his political opponents. They’ve lost all legitimacy.

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    Until they arrest Trump and remove him from office nothing is going to change. And if Congress ain’t got the balls to do it I guess it’s up to the people now.

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    It’s tougher to abolish ICE after you’ve just voted to continue funding them. Maybe that last one should have been a “no” eh?