REP. RASHIDA Tlaib calls for defunding Border Protection, Immigration Enforcement, and Department of Homeland Security
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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One might almost get the impression that she wants America defenseless before its enemies if it weren’t for the establishment media and the political elites reassuring us of how patriotic she is.
“Rashida Tlaib calls to defund immigration agencies amid border crisis,” by Mark Moore, New York Post, July 8, 2021:
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, original member of the progressive “Squad,” is calling for defunding immigration agencies like Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and even the Department of Homeland Security, because they “terrorize” migrant communities.
Tlaib (D-Mich) in comments released Wednesday from an interview with Just Futures Law was reacting to a question about her thoughts on President Biden wanting to increase technology at the border for CBP, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security in response to the ongoing crisis of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants arriving in the US.
“Look, the simple answer to that question is we must eliminate funding for CBP, ICE and their parent organization, DHS,” Tlaib told the legal group that opposes deportation.
“Time after time we have seen it as advocates on the ground, as human services agencies on the ground continue to see over and over again, that these agencies are inept to humanely guiding migrants through our immigration system and instead they further continue to terrorize migrant communities located within our communities,” she said in the interview recorded last month.…