Mike McCaul: The ‘Most Reckless Thing We Could Do’ Would Be to Abolish ICE

‘Many people don’t realize what ICE does’

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SMITH: "Meanwhile back at home a significant amount of change occurring as well. Democrats have drafted this bill to abolish ICE, and now they are saying they will vote against it? What is the latest on this, chairman?"
McCAUL: "Well what’s interesting is less than a year ago I put on the floor a bill to authorize ICE for the first time by Congress. It passed overwhelmingly. Nearly every Democrat voted for the bill to authorize ICE into law including Nancy Pelosi and the author of this bill to abolish ICE. So as I’ve talked to my leadership we think a good strategy is to call their bluff and put this bill on the floor and see how many Democrats are willing to vote for a bill to abolish a very important national security department. Many people don’t realize what ICE does. It is a lot more than what we see with the unaccompanied minors at the border. They stop human traffickers, drug smugglers, opioids coming into the country, it was design after 9/11 to protect Americans from potential terrorists. And according to the secretary we stop on average nearly 10 known or suspected terrorists per day. ICE does a great job protecting Americans. The most reckless thing we could do is abolish it."

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