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The Liberal Stampede to 'Abolish ICE'
Taki Magazine ^ | 7/3/18 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 07/03/2018 9:29:56 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck

“No Borders! No Nations! No Deportations!” “Abolish ICE!”

Before last week, these were the mindless slogans of an infantile left, seen on signs at rallies to abolish ICE, the agency that arrests and deports criminal aliens who have no right to be in our country.

By last week, however, “Abolish ICE!” was no longer the exclusive slogan of the unhinged left. National Democrats were signing on.

Before his defeat in New York’s 14th Congressional District, Joe Crowley, fourth-ranked Democrat in the House, called ICE a “fascist” organization.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; ice; illegalimmigrants; immigration; patbuchanan; radicals; theleft
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Proponents of liberal immigration policy always get defensive when someone labels their stated position to be "open borders" - and indeed in the past even Democrats like the Clintons and even Obama paid some lip service to border enforcement to draw a line between themselves and the Left's lunatic fringe, if only for appearance's sake.

Now they've dropped the whole charade and with 'Abolish ICE' admit that they favor open borders. How long before the pro-amnesty GOP establishment joins its Democrat kindred spirits to making 'Abolish ICE' their slogan too?

1 posted on 07/03/2018 9:29:56 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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Oh just let them keep it up. This is one issue on which they’ve jumped the gun, lacking the patience to do their usual propanda preparation. Their new minority hotshots don’t have the patience or the experience to understand the leftist “long march”, and the fact that their more esperienced political animals (aside from the usual bomb-throwers, the Maxine Waters types) are trying to soft-pedal and back-pedal on this, shows it.

If they yell loud enough about this (which amounts to “no borders”, and our side needs to be sure to make that clear, loud and long) in the run-up to the mid-terms, a red wave the likes of which they couldn’t conceive is going to hit them.


2 posted on 07/03/2018 9:35:05 AM PDT by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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You may be right about this. Most Americans, even those who don't see themselves as conservatives on the immigration issue, will probably still be repulsed by this type of rhetoric:

Before his defeat in New York’s 14th Congressional District, Joe Crowley, fourth-ranked Democrat in the House, called ICE a “fascist” organization.

After Crowley’s rout by a 28-year-old socialist who called for killing the agency, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., declared ICE to be “a cruel deportation force (that) we need to abolish.”

Cynthia Nixon, a candidate for governor of New York, described ICE as a “terrorist organization ... terrorizing people who are coming to this country. ... We need to abolish ICE.”

Rational people recognize the difference between law enforcement and "terrorism," and realize that what the Left is hysterically calling "fascism" today (i.e. arresting and deporting illegal immigrants) was standard operating procedure even when Clinton and Obama were in office.

3 posted on 07/03/2018 9:39:33 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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Everybody! All sing “Imagine,” the theme of the billionaire moron John Lennon!


4 posted on 07/03/2018 9:44:02 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: ek_hornbeck

‘Abolish ICE’ is just their latest trendy fad since the ‘Impeach Trump!’ and ‘Russian Meddling/Collusion’ fads fell flat.

Next week they’ll be freaking out because water flows downhill and they’ll be blaming it on Trump.


5 posted on 07/03/2018 9:45:55 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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This whole "Abolish ICE!" movement is dumb

I don't like the speed limit by my house. Every one drives a few mph over. So let's abolish the police!

Makes as much sense.

6 posted on 07/03/2018 9:47:18 AM PDT by llevrok (Established 1950.)
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I’m surprised that there isn’t a big contingent of Congressional Democrats pushing to replace the National Anthem with “Imagine.”


7 posted on 07/03/2018 9:47:28 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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Abolish ICE?

If you abolish ice, how will you keep your drinks cold? What will children skate on in the winter? What will happen to polar bears and penguins? Are you going to keep them in your freezer?

Oh ... it's not?

Never mind ...

8 posted on 07/03/2018 9:48:20 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Antifa and Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) = SturmAbteilung)
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To: llevrok; MeganC

All the hysteria about separating children from their parents falls into the same category of knee-jerk, emotive idiocy. Somehow, it never registered with them that when anyone is detained or incarcerated for ANY reason, they don’t get to take their kids with them to jail.


9 posted on 07/03/2018 9:49:12 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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One is puzzled where this push to disenfranchise the police powers the US government maintains to support the Border Patrol comes from, until the very long history of resisting ALL police power, at least not held by their side, by the command-and-control advocates, is finally understood.

This is very much a part of the Saul Alinsky playbook. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”


10 posted on 07/03/2018 9:49:29 AM PDT by alloysteel ("No" is a complete sentence. On so many levels.)
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Legislating morality and ideology by hashtags and catch phrases. How’d that work for those kidnapped Nigerian school girls??


11 posted on 07/03/2018 9:49:33 AM PDT by llevrok (Established 1950.)
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I like the ‘It’s not working..’ line they came up with.


12 posted on 07/03/2018 9:51:58 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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“Abolish ICE”—just another cultish Progressive “group-think,” “group-speak” slogan!


13 posted on 07/03/2018 9:52:40 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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Rainbows, Lollipops, and Unicorns...Kumbaya...ring around the roses.

How silly and immature. These people can’t see beyond the tip of their noses.

Well, in years to come, when the 30, 40, 50, and 60-plus generation are all gone, they’ll be stuck living in “Venezuela” with no one left to pull them out.

The funny part is, with education headed for the pits, they won’t even be able to read about it.


14 posted on 07/03/2018 9:53:01 AM PDT by FrankR ( Winners NEVER cheat, and Cheaters NEVER win.)
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To: alloysteel

The vilification of ICE and Border Patrol today is from the same playbook as the vilification of police after the Ferguson shooting. In both cases, the Left has decided that the law doesn’t apply to their protected class of “minority” pets.


15 posted on 07/03/2018 9:53:40 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: pabianice

Whenever I read paeans to St Lennon, I like to “imagine” the full-sized, climate-controlled room that he and Ms Ono Lennon had, dedicated to the storage and care of their many items of fur clothing.


16 posted on 07/03/2018 9:55:51 AM PDT by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: alloysteel

Also, their social engineering of the military (heretofore a staunchly conservative entity) fits with that pattern.


17 posted on 07/03/2018 9:58:33 AM PDT by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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The Liberal Stampede to ‘Abolish ICE’

This is what happens when your life is controlled by emotion and crowd speak.

It became apparent years ago that the difference between conservatives liberals is;

Thinking vs feeling.


18 posted on 07/03/2018 10:01:18 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Washinton DC, District of Corruption proven daily)
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They change stories and “crises” fast—we need them stuck on this one until November...please...please...please...


19 posted on 07/03/2018 10:08:02 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

They are not liberals Pat. They are Bolsheviks bent on the violent imposition of their views, the principal one of which is their right to the power to control everyone else.
And then they are backed by the cynical crony capitalist open borders crowd, but corruption is something we all understand.


20 posted on 07/03/2018 10:09:46 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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