All right, welcome to IHIP News. Today I have my favorite congressman, Congressman Robert Garcia,

the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee. Congressman, should ICE be abolished?

100%. No question. I should be abolished. Christineellum should be impeached. There is just no reforming

an agency that is murdering our own citizens, that is kidnapping children, that is throwing people

to the ground, and blinding them or causing great harm to people in communities. Look, people have to remember that ICE hasn't been around forever.

This is actually a newer agency.

When you look at the history of our country, we can do without it and it should be abolished.

And what do you say to people that would have the argument like, I forget her name, the senator from Michigan, she said, I'm pro-law enforcement.

How do we make this argument? Because to me, I think abolishing ICE is a moderate position.

And I even would argue that a moderate position would be prosecute ICE.

But two middle Americans that have this, they think, oh, we need to be safe.

They're terrorized by Fox News all the time.

Why don't we need ice?

Look, I think actually, if you want to be pro law enforcement, you should actually want to abolish ICE.

And let me explain why. Right now, what ICE is doing is causing massive distrust with local police officers, local law enforcement on the ground, who have worked really hard to regain

the trust of their communities. I've talked to local police

officer. I was mayor of a city with 800 cops before I got to Congress just a few years ago.

I've talked to those rank and file cops, our local police chiefs, they are horrified

by what they're seeing and what ICE is doing. And their concern is the danger that now they're being put in, their concern about how

folks are going to associate ICE and their tactics with what they're doing.

So if we really want to support law enforcement, I would say to my Democratic colleagues,

we have to abolish ICE.

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