The White House Twitter account condemned Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kamala Harris of California on Monday, urging the Democrats to get educated on what the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency does before calling for the agency’s demise.
The tweets, both with links to the ICE government webpage, called out the senators by name, questioning them on their anti-ICE rhetoric.
“Why are you supporting criminals moving weapons, drugs, and victims across our nation’s borders? You must not know what ICE really does,” read the first tweet, addressed to Warren, who spoke to a crowd of protesters in Los Angeles on Saturday at a “Families Belong Together” event, pushing for the replacement of ICE with “something that reflects our morality.”
[These Democrats want to abolish ICE]
.@SenWarren, why are you supporting criminals moving weapons, drugs, and victims across our nation’s borders? You must not know what ICE really does. Here is a link to help you out: https://t.co/5CiTKkIs4c
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 2, 2018
“President Trump seems to think that the only way to have immigration rule is to rip parents from their family, is to treat rape victims and refugees like terrorists and to put children in cages,” she said, describing the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy “ugly.”
The White House’s tweet to Harris was similar, asking the senator why she supports “the animals of MS-13,” linking to an article on the bureau’s government site that detailed the transfer made by an ICE officer of an MS-13 gang member to his home government.
.@SenKamalaHarris, why are you supporting the animals of MS-13? You must not know what ICE really does. Here is a link to help you out: https://t.co/kcrNj4aVMU
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 2, 2018
Harris told MSNBC last week that America ought to be thinking of “starting from scratch” when it comes to restructuring the organization. “I think there’s no question that we’ve got to critically re-examine ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing.”
Harris has not been in vocal support of MS-13. In January, her Twitter account posted a tweet describing MS-13 as “an example of some of the worst of criminal gang behavior.”
MS-13 is an example of some of the worst of criminal gang behavior. To equate that with Dreamers and DACA was scapegoating. This is fear-mongering and it is wrong.https://t.co/WSS7MWGUcL
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 31, 2018
Harris’ press secretary Tyrone Gayle hit back at the White House too, saying he “had to do a double take” on the source of the tweet and cited the senator’s anti-criminal record during her tenure as California attorney general.
Had to do a double take, one would this misleading attack from the RNC, not the WH.
Kamala Harris took on transnational criminal organizations as AG. You must not know her record.
Here is a link to help you out: https://t.co/A2T0932901 https://t.co/PunTfeEfa4
— Tyrone Gayle (@TyroneGayle) July 2, 2018
