The California Democrat, a possible 2020 presidential candidate, said she is so frustrated with how federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement treats migrants that the government should consider “starting from scratch” with an undefined overhaul of the 15-year-old agency.
However, she and a growing number of Democratic lawmakers talking about making changes to immigration-law enforcement, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, are avoiding calling for the step that the party’s more progressive members have turned into a Twitter hashtag: “#Abolish ICE.”
“I think there’s no question that we’ve got to critically re-examine ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing,” Harris told MSNBC over the weekend. “And we need to probably think about starting from scratch.”
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