Rashida Tlaib Sinks Nancy Pelosi, Calls For Defunding DHS, ICE, CBP: ‘We Must Eliminate Funding for CBP, ICE’ and DHS’
The single worst political slogan in recent American history and the one that almost cost Nancy Pelosi her job as Speaker was the Squad’s ‘defund the police’ debacle. One would think after that the Dems would get wise and at least try to hide the fact that their signature issue is hugely unpopular across America.
But you would be wrong. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., just doubled down and now wants to defund key immigration and law enforcement agencies.
Tlaib, a key member of the “Squad,” wants to defund not just ICE, (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) but also the CBP (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) and DHS (The Department of Homeland Security).
“Look, the simple answer to that question is we must eliminate funding for CBP, ICE and their parent organization, DHS,” Tlaib said.
“Time after time we have seen it as advocates on the ground, as human services agencies on the ground continue to see over and over again, that these agencies are inept to humanely guiding migrants through our immigration system and instead they further continue to terrorize migrant communities located within our communities,” she said.
“This approach is something that many, especially the new members of Congress, are coming with full force and pushing back against this idea,” Talib said.
“They rename this kind of militarization or targeting in a very inhumane way of our immigrant neighbors, but when it comes down to it it is the same thing – which is targeting communities of color in a way that to me very much violates human rights and dignity for so many of our communities.”
“This is a distraction to what is really needed, which is full comprehensive immigration reform policies in our country. We are far from even getting to that conversation because people are distracted with these for-profit, corporate greed approaches that are coming to experiment on our immigrants and our border,” she said. “And I say ‘enough.’”
From Yahoo:
Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) said Tuesday that “we must eliminate funding” for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Department of Homeland Security, arguing that the agencies “terrorize migrant communities.”
“Time after time we have seen it as advocates on the ground, as human service agencies on the ground. To continue to see over and over again that these agencies are inept to humanely guiding migrants through our immigration system,” the progressive congresswoman said during a conversation on digital walls, borders and deportations with Julie Mao from Just Futures Law.
“Instead they further continue to terrorize migrant communities located within our communities,” she said.
Tlaib’s comments come just weeks after a bipartisan group of lawmakers from Texas penned an essay in the Dallas Morning News warning that the U.S. is on track to receive “the highest number of total yearly border crossings in two decades.”
The essay, co-authored by Republican Senator John Cornyn, Republican Representative Tony Gonzales and Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar, noted nearly 930,000 migrants including “almost 80,000 unaccompanied children” have illegally crossed the border into America in the past 8 months.
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