Topline
The DSA platform would abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), leaving no federal agency to enforce our immigration laws, and implementing an open, unrestricted border policy that ensures we are unable to prevent the entrance or removal of illegal aliens, including dangerous criminal aliens.
Author:
Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow
TOPLINE: The DSA platform would abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), leaving no federal agency to enforce our immigration laws, and implementing an open, unrestricted border policy that ensures we are unable to prevent the entrance or removal of illegal aliens, including dangerous criminal aliens.
BACKGROUND: The DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” platform calls for abolishing ICE, legalizing unlimited immigration, and granting blanket amnesty to all illegal aliens.
Abolishing ICE Would Decimate Public Safety
- Restoring the rule of law and ensuring public safety and national security requires robust enforcement by ICE to remove violent criminals, gang members, and other dangerous aliens who are illegally in the U.S., and to control who enters the country.
- Without ICE, sanctuary jurisdictions would become even more dangerous with no federal authority backstop for getting criminal aliens off the streets and permanently removed from the country, and nothing to prevent such criminals and terrorists from entering the nation.
- Mass amnesty would encourage even more illegal immigration, recreating the Biden Border Crisis, which imposed huge costs and burdens on communities throughout the nation and endangered the public.
The Policy Goes Far Beyond ICE Itself
- DSA's platform calls for eliminating national borders “as a long-term plan.”
- The platform pairs ICE’s abolition with blanket amnesty for illegal aliens, rewarding illegal behavior and imposing serious public safety and financial burdens on local communities.
- This would exacerbate the public benefit crisis we are facing as Social Security, Medicare, and other government benefits are already threatened by our unsustainable national debt and budget overruns.
BOTTOMLINE: The DSA’s call to abolish ICE would leave Americans defenseless against criminal illegal aliens and impose huge costs on our communities. American families deserve a safe, orderly immigration system – not open borders that reward illegal immigration.
