FROM WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Democrats are channeling grassroots anger at Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a series of condemnations that stop short of the calls to “abolish ICE” that defined the early anti-Trump resistance.
At their summer gathering in Minnesota this week, members of the Democratic National Committee signaled the strategy they will take to oppose Trump’s immigration agenda — denouncing the administration’s deportation tactics while steering clear of the Left’s desire to dismantle the agency Republicans have expanded with their megabill.
The idea of abolishing ICE gained currency in the first Trump White House, when his enforcement priorities became one pillar of what galvanized the Left against his administration. Democratic leaders flirted with the movement by supporting ICE’s dismantlement or calling for its restructuring.
But the calls lost currency as Republicans branded Democrats as beholden to the fringe of their party. The decades-high inflow of illegal immigrants under President Joe Biden sparked another step to the right as Democrats sought to distance themselves from the influx.
Some Democrats still want to dismantle ICE, but most aren’t saying it anymore.
The DNC is instead making their disapproval of the agency apparent without questioning its existence, and focusing on how the agency has gone “rogue” under Trump.
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