White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Monday that people pushing to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement don’t have any idea what they’re talking about.
“This is a very simple binary choice,” she said on Fox News. “You’re either for… a sovereign nation that has a border, or you’re for open borders and a lot of the crime that comes with that.”
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“The call for the abolition of ICE, in my view, is the intersection of arrogance and ignorance,” she said.
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Some Democrats have called for an end to ICE in the wake of the separation of immigrant families at the border, which happened as the Trump administration sought to prosecute illegal immigrant adults.
But Conway said some Democrats have acknowledged terminating ICE is a bad idea.
“You’ve got smarter, I think, more senior Democrats like Sen. Blumenthal of Connecticut this week saying he doesn’t think that calling for the abolishing of ICE is a fruitful exercise, pushing back against folks like Kirsten Gillibrand, the senator from New York who not so long ago was a center-right member of Congress,” she said.
Conway also accused some Democrats of trying to use ICE as a 2020 campaign issue before the results of the 2018 midterm elections are known.
