Dem Rep Goes Beyond Abolishing ICE, Seeks To Dismantle DHS

Democratic Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez vowed that the Department of Homeland Security would be “dismantled” during a Tuesday press conference, adding that “every fascist” in the Trump administration would face “justice.”

Democrats blocked a “minibus” spending bill that included funding for DHS, demanding reforms to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that would severely restrict their enforcement operations following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Ramirez claimed the cabinet agency was “the greatest threat to the homeland” before she targeted Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller and border czar Tom Homan.

“Americans are past reforms of a department that has used your taxpayer dollars to execute people in broad daylight,” Ramirez claimed. “This is why the Melt ICE Act ends the Department of Homeland Security’s funding to detain and monitor pregnant women, children, neighbors, disrupting immigration enforcement and then redirecting that money, your money, into the communities that have been impacted, whether that’s in Minnesota, in Chicago, in Portland, and all over the country.”

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