Abolish ICE Zealots Occupy Fantasy Island

By Michelle Malkin No ban. No wall. No borders at all." That is the radical rallying cry of the Democratic Socialists of America. Waving desecrated U.S. flags grubby fists and ratty anarchy banners DSAs professional protesters are targeting Trump administration officials threatening immigration enforcement agents and blockading detention facilities and processing centers nationwide. On a similar note Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) proudly marched in a parade last week with a T-shirt emblazoned with Yo No Creo En Fronteras" Spanish for I dont believe in borders." These are abjectly unserious people operating in bad faith who pose a serious threat to our nations well-being. In New York DSA rabble-rousers took over a loading dock used to transport immigrants at an ICE processing center on Varick Street. Genius move. Now detainees whose bond hearings were canceled because of the protest disruptions face another six or more extra weeks in detention. In Portland Oregon DSA operatives shut down a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office after preventing workers from exiting the building. In Detroit organizers disrupted ordinary processing and appointments at a downtown ICE field office and plan to camp out there 24 hours a day until the end of the month. Our short-term goal is to shut down operations at this particular center" ringleader Robert Jay explained. Our long-term goal is to abolish ICE entirely." This reckless simpleton sentiment doesnt belong to the fringe of the American Left. It is the center. Across the country supposedly mainstream Democrats activist groups and entertainers are pushing to Abolish ICE." To be clear if the hashtag didnt clue you in: They dont just want to reform or reduce the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency which was created by merging existing immigration entities after the 9/11 attacks to better coordinate enforcement against alien lawbreakers inside the country. They want it gone. Zapped. Poof. An informational flyer lists the agenda of the ICE breakers: A moratorium on deportations. End all forms of immigration detention. Reimagine Border Patrol as a humanitarian force that rescues migrants rather than destroying their water supplies to hasten their deaths." It seems these hysterical extremists were too busy stalking Republicans at restaurants and blocking roadways to notice the Border Patrol agents in Arizona who rescued 57 illegal immigrants men women and children (as young as 1) abandoned by smugglers in 108-degree heat in the Tucson sector this weekend. Or the Border Patrol agents in Texas who rescued a pregnant immigrant woman who nearly drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande River illegally. If the Kumbaya leaders of the Abolish ICE campaign were limited to ragtag Millennials demanding the whole world operate like an Oberlin College co-op or Fantasy Island it would be easy to dismiss. But their ranks are spreading: Organizers of the Womens March endorsed by celebrities journalists and Democrats announced this week that the call to #AbolishICE is a call to eliminate the agency that has been terrorizing immigrant communities for 15 years. Women from all backgrounds must take up @conmijentes call to #FreeOurFuture." Mijente a Latino activist group leading the Abolish ICE movement proudly displays on its Twitter home page a huge Chinga La Migra" banner. (Translation: Fk the Border Patrol.") Endorsing the movement The Nation magazine dubbed ICE a mass-deportation strike force is incompatible with democracy and human rights." Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) Jim McGovern (D-MA) Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and nearly 20 Democratic congressional candidates have all called for eliminating ICE. Boston-area Democratic congressional candidate Ayanna Pressley wants to defund ICE because its an existential threat" to immigrant communities." And New York actress-turned-Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon declared that ICE is a terrorist organization." Silly Cindy is campaigning to destroy ICEs entire 20000-person workforce which handles not only enforcement and removal operations but also homeland security investigations combating criminal organizations illegally exploiting our travel trade financial and immigration systems. That includes international smugglers of women and children drugs weapons and cash. So how exactly do these ICE-melters propose to deal with criminal alien fugitives such as the estimated 300000 deportation absconders whove been ordered by immigration judges to leave the country? How about the 40 percent of illegal aliens from the pool of between 11 million and 30 million immigration lawbreakers who overstayed their visas and are on the loose doing heaven knows what? And when will these noble 21st-century abolitionists be stepping up to open their homes to the members of the ICE Most Wanted list which includes illegal aliens wanted for murder aggravated homicide narcotics and human trafficking and membership in terrorist organizations? I dont just question their patriotism. I question their sanity.