It’s time to abolish ICE, according to journalist and Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan.
Although still politically unpopular, the position has never been fringe. Even neo-conservative Bill Kristol is on the bandwagon after seeing masked ICE agents kidnap in broad daylight an innocent Tufts grad student, Rumeysa Ozturk, for the crime of writing an op-ed. She was detained in Louisiana, along with pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, despite having committed zero crimes and being denied due process.
Just now, the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, blocked the Trump Administration from abusing the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to kidnap and deport innocent Venezuelan immigrants to a foreign gulag without due process. Nonetheless, Abrego Kilmar Garcia, who has legally been in America for five years, remains separated family even though the Trump Administration admits it committed an error in deporting him.
This week, Ozturk, along with Badar Khan Suri, who ICE agents kidnapped in Virginia, were lucky enough to be released, but Khalil remains detained. Suri is an Indian national whose crime is being married to a Palestinian American citizen. During the Trump Administration, ICE is now emboldened and willing to go after citizens, such as Mayor Baraka of Newark and Judge Duggan of Wisconsin, who was just indicted for allegedly “obstructing” ICE agents.
ICE is now a dangerous, racist rogue agency that resembles the Gestapo of the past. MAGA has its own Brownshirts who are beholden to no one except a white supremacist regime that treats the Constitution as Play-Doh to enact right-wing authoritarian rule.
One would assume Democrats would seize the moment, fight, and at least message accordingly, but they’re too busy criticizing their own base for being “woke” and throwing immigrants under the bus to avoid being seen as “soft” on crime.
In this Chai Talk, Mehdi makes the case for why Democrats and the majority must call for the abolishment of ICE to protect our civil liberties and freedoms that are under direct assault from a lawless Trump regime.
Give us a watch and let me know if you agree.
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