Jeh Johnson: Call to abolish ICE ‘not a serious policy proposal’

Published July 7, 2018 5:48pm ET



President Barack Obama’s former Homeland Security secretary said Friday that the recent Democratic movement to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not a “serious policy proposal.”

“The reality is that abolishing ICE is not a serious policy proposal; It’s about as serious as the claim that Mexico’s ‘gonna pay for the wall,’” Jeh Johnson said in an op-ed published by the Washington Post.

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