Robert Garcia

When you look at the history of our country, we can do without it, and it should be abolished.

Look, I think actually, if you want to be pro-law enforcement, you should actually want to abolish ICE.

And let me explain why.

Right now...

What ICE is doing is causing massive distrust with local police officers, local law enforcement on the ground, who have worked really hard to regain the trust of their communities.

I've talked to local police officers.

I was mayor of a city with 800 cops before I got to Congress just a few years ago.

I've talked to those rank and file cops, our local police chiefs, they are horrified by what they're seeing and what ICE is doing.

And their concern is the danger that now they're being put in, their concern about how folks are gonna associate ICE and their tactics with what they're doing.

So if we really wanna support

Law enforcement, I would say to my Democratic colleagues, we have to abolish ICE.

We can't say that this is OK or that somehow this is somehow how we are going to act and fund.

They don't deserve a penny more.

Look, we don't.

And that's what's really scary.

And it's not just what's happening at Alligator Alcatraz.

This is happening across the country and in detention centers.

We know that ICE has now tried to limit oversight, congressional visits, even though we've won lawsuits in the courts.

Alligator Alcatraz has been a horrific abuse of human rights.

God knows who is making unlimited amounts of money.