Legendary Democratic strategist David Axelrod warned Democrats against pushing for ICE to be abolished in their campaigns on Thursday.
Axelrod joined CNN’s Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar on air amid calls from some Democrats to abolish ICE following the deaths of 37-year-old protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti during altercations with federal agents in Minneapolis this month.
Axelrod warned that campaigning to abolish ICE will not be a winning campaign message for Democrats, arguing most Americans believe in some sort of “immigration enforcement in the country.”
He argued a movement to abolish ICE could end up like defund the police calls in 2020, with the public not supporting the “implication” of such an extreme move.
I think that people believe you should come to the country legally, and if you don’t, you know, there should some penalty for that. They do believe that. But I don’t think they want to abolish ICE. Well, you know the problem that we’ve seen before when people said abolish the police.
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What is the Democratic Party standing on for now? Just a thought.
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