are joining the far left to attack i.c.e., with some evenev calling for it to be abolished. take a look. i think there is no question that we ve got to critically re-examine i.c.e. and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing and we need to probably think about startingng from scratch. i.c.e. isn t doing what it was created to do. it is being used as his own personal police force and in those actions, it is making us less safe. i don t think i.c.e. today is working as intended. you think we should get rid of thehe agency? i believe that it has become a deportation force. i think you should separate the criminal justice from the immigration issues and i think you should reimagine i.c.e. it s too aggressive and over-the-top and i think it s lost itsts course. i think we should replace itwe with something practical, still has to be a law enforcement agencycy come , but the one thaa little more humane. we need to rebuild our immigration system
are joining the dpar left to attack i.c.e. with? even calling for it to be abolished. take a look. no question that we have got to critically reexamine i.c.e. and its role and the way it s being administered and the work it is doing. we need to probably think about starting from scratch. i.c.e. isn t doing what it was created to do. it s being used as its own personal police force. in those actiontion it s making us less safe. i don t think i.c.e. today is working as intended. you think you should get rifd agency? i believe it has become a deportation force. and i think you should separate the criminal justice from the immigration issues. i think you should reexamine i.c.e. too aggressive and over the top, and i think it s lost its course. we should replace it with something sensible, something practical. they still have to be law enforcement agency but one that s humane. we need to rebuild our immigration system from top to
baghdad s ministry of defense and a us coalition are allegedly planning to evaluate the effectiveness of the fence . the border dropping rapidly as the trump administration cracks on our immigration numbers for last month show border patrol made about 34,000 arrests down 16 percent from may when the agency wracked a little more than 50,000 immigrants. the june number is the lowest since february. the drop could also be due to seasonal trends . rob: the president defending ice agents asdemocrats ramp up for calls to abolish that agency. replacing ice with something that reflects our morality . i don t think ice today is working as intended . there s no question we got to re-examine ice and its role. we need to re-abolish ice, that seems clear. we are committing human rights abuses on this order and that is part of the structure of theagency . president trump says the democrats are paving the way for republican victories this
that reflects our morality and reporter: now warren joins a growing list of progressives who have called to end or reform i.c.e. president trump responding on twitter by defending the law enforcement agency and alleging that democrats are simply moving on the road to remove all police, which democrats are not doing. sarah westwood, thank you for that report. on that note, let s talk about how this really got started. new york senator kristen gillibrand was one of the first to start the list of people who say that i.c.e. needs to be revamped. you don t think i.c.e. today is working as intended? i believe i believe that it has become a deportation force and i think you should separate
enforcement and cyber crimes and counter terrorism things like that. so they think it would be a step too far to go forward with something that would abolish i.c.e. you see the president already taking advantage of it for political purposes. i ll read a quick line from the talking points here. it says abolishing i.c.e. without changing the disastrous immigration policies will not solve the problem of the that s from the congressional hispanic caucus. you re seeing a divide within the democratic party on this issue. let me turn to you and ask about the case that those who are advocating for this are making. let me play a tape of kirsten gillibrand. i don t think i.c.e. today is working as intended. you think you should get rid of the agency. i believe that it has become a deportation force. you should get rid of it, start over, reimagine it and build something that actually works. let me ask a version of the question i asked to you, that is