'A political suicide march': Trump aims to inflict political pain on Democrats over calls...

[DonViejo]

‘A political suicide march’: Trump aims to inflict political pain on Democrats over calls to abolish immigration enforcement agency

By David Nakamura
June 30 at 5:35 PM

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump on Saturday opened a new front in the immigration debate, diverting attention away from his administration’s treatment of undocumented immigrants to a broader fight over the federal agency charged with detaining and deporting them.

In a pair of tweets from his private golf club in Bedminster, N.J., Trump forcefully defended the performance of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and lambasted Democrats as pushing a “radical left” agenda to abolish it, even though only a handful have publicly supported doing so.

“To the great and brave men and women of ICE, do not worry or lose your spirit,” Trump wrote in one tweet. “You are doing a fantastic job of keeping us safe by eradicating the worst criminal elements.”

In an interview on Fox News set to air Sunday, Trump suggested that the issue would hurt Democrats in the midterm elections because ICE helps eradicate violent gangs. Trump’s public support of ICE came as tens of thousands marched in cities across the country to protest a “zero tolerance” policy under which all adults who crossed the border illegally were referred for criminal prosecution, resulting in more than 2,500 children being separated from adult relatives.

“I hope they keep thinking about it because they’re going to get beaten so badly,” he told Maria Bartiromo, host of “Sunday Morning Futures.” “You get rid of ICE, you’re going to have a country that you’re going to be afraid to walk out of your house. I love that issue if they’re going to actually do that.”

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[Iliyah]

1. Doubt it.

[dalton99a]

2. Yeah, an MS-13 taco truck on every corner waiting to rape white girls

[sinkingfeeling]

3. We should use their terminology: Repeal ICE and Replace.

[heaven05]

4. typical bluster and hyperbole

from the potus POS of the POS deplorables.

He really is a stupid person, with power, I am ashamed to say as an american. A dangerous STUPID person. Yet this possibility of a truly open and non-repentant racist potus HAS ALWAYS been right under ameriKa's racist skin. In it's underbelly, as it were...

[Girard442]

5. "Eradicating"

Take the man at his word.

[superpatriotman]

6. Who did it before ICE?

Never forget.

[Xipe Totec]

7. CBP - US Customs & Border Protection nt

[duforsure]

8. He's abusing his power

To use any agency , and any department as weapons against the American people, so now that ICE is being attacked he has to stop them any way he can. He'll never leave office without using violence against the American people.

[spanone]

9. trump being 'president' is physical pain....

fuck him and his big mouth