Posted on 07/02/2018 9:35:16 AM PDT by davikkm
Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is no longer left enough for some Democrats, because he has been reluctant to join calls to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That’s according to the New Republic, once a reliable center-left organ. Writer Sarah Jones has declared that Sanders is “undermining his position as the nation’s most prominent left-wing politician” by suggesting that ICE should be reformed, rather than endorsing the total elimination of border enforcement.
Jones writes:
Sanders could be a source of consistent, left-wing pressure on party leadership, whether or not he runs in 2020. If he intends to build a lasting political movement out of the remnants of his last presidential campaign, he’ll need to become an effective counterweight to the mainstream Democratic Party. But based on his ICE comments and the uneven results of his campaign efforts, Sanders no longer seems like such a sure figurehead for disgruntled Democratic voters.
While Sanders has inspired many on the left, including newest Democratic Party heroine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his refusal to abolish ICE outright, Jones argues, means that perhaps he was never such a thought leader after all. “[D]espite his sudden popularity in 2015, Sanders has never been a figurehead to everyone in the American left. … He does not occupy the left-most band of the spectrum,” Jones writes.
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It’s very obvious the Demrat party is very divided and pulling further to the extreme wacko left!!!!
You will never hear this on the Fake MSM!!!
Tow the line, or you will be towed.
Crazy old Bernie should just pack it in, and enjoy the rest of his life in a condo in Miami Beach!
November EARFQUAKE..!
Hitler got rid of the SA. It happens.
hey Bernie...wake up...if you want liberty, freedom, justice, you're on the wrong side..
Anyone for abolishing ICE is advocating the dissolution of the nation.
They hate Bernie because he cost Hill her presidency. lol They should hate Barry O as well because he didn’t help. His peeps were all lBernie-bots.
2018: The Year Of The Liberal Cannibals.
I am consume mass quantities of popcorn while they consume each other.
And say unto them “YEAH BABY, GO!”
Pass the popcorn. It’s fun to watch them eat their own!
Danton ends up executed by Robespierre. That’s how French and Soviet Revolutions always end.
American revolutions end differently. Perhaps the left should try it sometime, except that if they did, they would no longer be the left.
Most people have no idea what ICE does.
It was better when US Border Patrol was under Immigration and Naturalization Service INS and US Customs was under the Treasury. President Bush gathered them up under Homeland Security and now no one understands the difference between Border Patrol, Customs Inspectors, Customs Agents, Immigration Customs Enforcement ICE...
To be accurate it is Border Patrol that was (LEGALLY) separating families at the border. ICE is tasked with criminal aliens and building cases against cartel crime. Customs Inspectors work the legal Port of Entries, Border Patrol patrols between Ports of Entry, the media always mixes them up.
Doing away with ICE is the last thing we need, even many of our politicians, and none of our media understand what is what. Only a complete moron would want to do away with ICE. Not that we need to do away with any of them, they are all needed desperately to attempt to control the border.
What we need to do is simple and anyone that supports our country and our people will support enforcing immigration laws and securing the border. Everyone should be 1000% behind President Trump on this. Anyone that does not support that is supporting illegals and open border over our citizens. I am tired of hearing about the rights of illegals, what about the rights of U.S. Citizens?
Trotsky Sanders is also too white!
Sanders better watch out for ice axes.
I declared that ICE should be replaced by FIRE
The Freeper setha decided to play the game and posted
FIRE
Federal Immigration and Repatriation Enforcement
I mean that in the nicest way, of course.
He forgets what they did to Leiberman for not playing ball.
Only now they are violent. He may be dealt with differently this time around.
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>> “He may be dealt with differently this time around.” <<
He better not play in any baseball games!
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Five years ago Bernie said ‘Open Borders create low wages in America, and are not compatible with welfare programs’. I wonder where that Bernie went?
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