As Twitchy reported, Marches billed as “Families Belong Together” are taking place across the country Saturday, and there are plenty of signs calling for the abolition of ICE.
And those protesters have company in high places: on Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that ICE should be abolished, as did Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and a handful of congressional Democrats stopped by an “Abolish ICE” immigration protest at the Hart Senate Building on Thursday to lend their support.
Also this week, Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated incumbent U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley in the Democratic primary, so it might be time to check in with the New York City Democratic Socialists and see what they’re up to. It’s no surprise that they want to abolish ICE, but that’s just one item on their wishlist:
? Abolish profit
? Abolish prisons
? Abolish cash bail
? Abolish borders#AbolishICE pic.twitter.com/TCFIZqzJrU— New York City DSA ? (@nycDSA) June 29, 2018
OK, no one’s saying they’re against border security — they’re actually coming out and calling for the abolishment of borders, which seems to be the de facto result of not detaining illegal immigrants and going back to “catch-and-release” policies of the Obama administration.
Oh, and they also want to abolish profit and prisons. It should be interesting having a Democratic Socialist from New York elected to Congress in the fall.
Abolish leftist stupidity.
— JWF (@JammieWF) June 30, 2018
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) June 30, 2018
Shush.
No thanks. I like my country actually being a country
— PCGamerCaptain (@PCGamerCapt) June 30, 2018
No
No
No
No
You can leave anytime you want.— Gator (@CandacesMom69) June 30, 2018
Is that the message them Dems are going to run on? ???
— Politically Incorrect ? Caps fan 4eva (@fistsballedup) June 30, 2018
Maybe … the most vocal party leaders seem to think the key to defeating Trump in 2020 is to lean ever further left. We say go for it.
THIS should be the platform of the @DNC! Make sure EVERY AMERICAN knows that this is what Democrats stand for!
These are not the droids you’re looking for….
— Larry Gates (@AggieLarry) June 30, 2018
Why do you need to abolish cash bail and prisons? If you don’t have anywhere to imprison criminals, what are they paying any bail for?
— Zach Zaerr (@CzarZaerr) June 30, 2018
If someone murders someone, what do you with them if there are no prisons?
— StevenHerbert (@StevenHerbert) June 30, 2018
They haven't thought that far ahead.
— Damn, I'm smirky. (@corrcomm) June 30, 2018
Abolish prisons?
— Alexa Lauren ?? (@Alexakoz92) June 30, 2018
https://twitter.com/itsfranktime/status/1013138186644713479
You notice that nothing is ever BUILT by these people, only ABOLISHED. As seen in Cuba and Venezuela, they abolish hopes, dreams, work ethic, and FREEDOM.
— VSoto ?? (@wisenotlies) June 30, 2018
Abolish alt-left sociopaths living in their mommy's basement and still having tantrums. Socialism is a Mental illness.
— ???? (@viradio) June 30, 2018
You hurt their feelings. pic.twitter.com/kXnymjrlkh
— Captain Jim “Red” Albright (@CaptMidnight49) June 30, 2018
Can’t we put these psychos on an island so they can live in their own delusional social experiment?
— GTL ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@Jlob8o) June 30, 2018
Jonah Goldberg makes a good point:
It’s interesting to think about how impossible it would be to abolish profit without a level of police state authoritarianism that would make even their caricature of ICE seem like mall cops. https://t.co/5OnVyKTO3b
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) June 30, 2018
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Update:
We suspected as much …
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a dues-paying member of this organization, per HuffPost https://t.co/MYeyaOs9WM
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) June 30, 2018
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