Congressional Hispanic Caucus pumps the brakes on abolishing ICE

Just when the movement to abolish U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) started catching fire on the far left side of the political aisle, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) has issued talking points to put the brakes on the idea. It’s not for the reason you may hope for, though. The caucus wants to keep the agency to beat up on Trump’s immigration policies, not to support their work. I give credit to the caucus for acknowledging the other important work ICE does, besides rounding up illegal immigrants and protecting America’s borders by detaining them. Other functions including “narcotics enforcement, investigating cybercrimes, human smuggling, firearms smuggling and counterterrorism,” are not questioned. They just don’t want to abolish ICE before reforming the Trump policies with which they disagree. -- More...