Biden expected to resist demands from Left to abolish ICE

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Despite calls from the Left in recent years to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency is expected to go largely untouched by the incoming Biden administration, according to immigration experts.

“Biden is not going to abolish ICE because he’s an institutionalist who will focus on depoliticizing government agencies that became extensions of the Trump administration’s policymaking apparatus,” Cris Ramon, an immigration policy consultant in Washington, wrote in a statement.

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