Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett demanded the elimination of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a Monday interview with theGrio regarding her Texas Senate campaign.
A January 2025 poll from the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs found that 60% of Texans backed the mass deportations of most illegal immigrants. Crockett noted during the theGrio interview that ICE replaced the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and argued that the current agency was unsalvageable.
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“We know that ICE was referred to as INS before. And so I think that just like we went from INS to ICE, we have to do immigration enforcement. That is a basic, okay? We do,” Crockett said. “We have laws for a reason. So we need to enforce our laws. Absolutely. Do I think that what ICE is right now makes sense for anyone, whether they are here with legal status, not here with any status, or a U.S. citizen? I don’t. I absolutely don’t.”
“They are against their own policies. They are against the law. And so I just don’t know how you clean this up … I think that we need to scrap it,” she added. “And we need to come up with something that actually meets not only the moment, but meets the definition of what they are supposed to be doing. I don’t know how you fix this, but I think that we start at the top. And I signed on to impeach [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, And that’s where we start. We start by getting rid of her. And then we can work our way down.”
Crockett was also pressed on whether she would “support abolishing or defunding ICE” during a Jan. 24 debate.
“We absolutely have to clean house,” she said at the time. “Whatever that looks like, I am willing to do it.”
Democrats have demanded reforms to ICE that would limit its enforcement operations after the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota on Jan. 7 to pass a spending package including a DHS funding bill.
Moreover, Democratic Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez vowed that “ICE will be abolished, DHS [Department of Homeland Security] will be dismantled” during a Feb. 2 press conference.
Furthermore, Crockett has repeatedly compared ICE to “slave patrols.”
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