It was a misunderstanding…
Leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus said Monday they won’t push to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the government’s deportation agency, putting distance between themselves and some of the demands of most liberal members and activists.
Rep. Mark Pocan, co-chair of the caucus, said that he still wants to see a review of the policies at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but it’s a lesser priority than issues such as health care.
“I’m assuming that we have other folks that have been pretty vocal on this issue that are still going to bring it to Congress,” Mr. Pocan said. “However, I think our main goal out the gates will be issues that we ran on across all districts.”
Calls to abolish the agency went from a radical fringe to mainstream liberal candidates earlier this year after the Trump administration’s botched zero-tolerance border policy left thousands of children separated from parents. While ICE wasn’t heavily involved in those decisions, the agency still became the target of violent protests and severe political backlash. more
Lying to the base for votes. However since the base is mostly NPCs, they’ll accept this garbage as long as somebody yells out “Orange man bad” as a distraction.
Right Winger is right. The needed votes are in they don’t need immigration believers any more, till next election time rolls up.
Typical – get the most ignorant potential voters all stirred up, have the vote, using those people, and retreat to the place you always knew you were going.
Another reason I love President Trump – he says what he means and he means what he says. That is the real “truth to power”.
Pecan said, “he still wants to see a review of the policies at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…”
Wait, what?? Are you saying y’all have been spouting off about policies/procedures without knowing what they actually entail?
Thank goodness we didn’t overhaul our entire healthcare system based on uninformed boobs. 😉