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AUSTIN, Texas — Abolishing ICE moved one step closer Thursday to becoming the official policy of the Democratic Party, which would give the socialist and far-left wing a major beachhead in its takeover campaign.
At the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Austin, a policy panel voted to advance a resolution to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The vote followed a heated debate over whether the resolution should include the word “abolish.”
The resolution, known as resolution 27, passed out of the committee in an overwhelming 25-12 vote after members argued about a proposed amendment to replace the word “abolish” with the word “restructure.”
The skirmish over “abolish ICE” underscores the increasing tension in the party between establishment Democrats and far-left insurgents who have energized much of the base and become a dominant force in the midterm campaigns.
North Carolina DNC member John Verdejo said socialist candidates were beating establishment candidates because some longtime incumbents lost touch with the base.
“Do a better job. Because if you were doing the job that we would like you to do, there’d be no insurgents coming after you,” he told The Washington Times. “All due respect, some of them got fat while the rest of us were starving.”
The resolution recognized “people killed or abused by ICE” and called for accountability at the Department of Homeland Security.
“We do not need an agency who treats all individuals of my skin color and darker like criminals just for existing. Please join me and 76% of Democrats that support abolishing ICE,” said Michelle Johnson, a DNC member from Louisiana who sponsored the abolish-ICE resolution.
She described the modern immigration force as a monster offspring of its predecessor, the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
“DHS and ICE were created in response to 9/11. Prior to this, there were not children in cages or citizens murdered in the street by INS,” she said.
The opponents of the “abolish” language insisted they wanted to dramatically overhaul ICE and end President Trump’s immigration policies. They just wanted to shy away from rhetoric that backfired on Democrats in the past, such as calls to “abolish the police.”
The DNC has adopted previous resolutions, including at its spring meeting in New Orleans, calling for changes and accountability for ICE.
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