Immigration

Here is the House Democrats’ bill to shutter ICE

By Melissa Quinn
Published July 12, 2018 8:09pm ET
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Here is the House Democrats’ bill to shutter ICE
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent stands outside an apartment complex looking for a specific undocumented immigrant convicted of a felony on March 6, 2015. | (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

House Democrats have introduced legislation aimed at eliminating Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Introduced Thursday, the bill from Reps. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., comes amid uproar over immigration raids conducted by ICE officials under the Trump administration and the separation of children from their parents at the southern border.

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