Holder: Calls to abolish ICE are "a gift to Republicans"

[Qutzupalotl]

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[octoberlib]

1. If ICE is abolished their duties will just be taken up by another department.

What's needed is to reform our laws. I'm not a fan of ICE, btw . It makes a nice slogan but won't solve anything.

[OnDoutside]

6. 100% agree. This is the problem with inexperienced hotheads talking shite.

[manor321]

2. Don't give a shit

Abolishing ICE is the correct thing to do. We should fight for it.

Republicans were told for decades that fighting against Roe v Wade was a loser. Who is laughing now?

[handmade34]

12. "Don't give a shit"

got us here... Abolishing ICE 'may be' the correct thing to do, but laying low right now is the SMART thing to do

[OneBro]

28. Well said.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Put a leash on ICE.

[tonyt53]

4. He is 100% correct. Wait until after November. Only idiots would give the GOP ammo now.

[ebbie15644]

5. I agree. This is a gift to repubs going into the midterms

[lamp_shade]

7. He's absolutely right.

[ooky]

24. I agree.

Using the term "abolish ICE" mobilizes their voting base. We need to focus on the abomination of separating the families.

[DemocraticSocialist8]

8. I disagree 1000%...ICE is the American Gestapo

Make the Rethugs defend what they've done. The problem is there aren't many who have the will to fight the Right on this.

[Blue_true]

20. Fight them.

Or kick ourselves in our own balls. The key issue is knowing what we are fighting to accomplish. The abolish ICE people don't have a clue as to what exactly they want to accomplish. The goal should be to reform our immigration laws and reform ICE. ICE had a reasonable charter when it was formed, but over the years since the organization has become heavy on hiring Nazi types and light on hiring thinking administrators and field officers that have a clear and well defined mission and are regulated to insure that the organization is working toward that mission.

[matt819]

9. Follow the abolish ICE movement

Certainly has all the earmarks of 2016 Russian tactics.

[Blue_true]

21. I am afraid it has. And it is also pulling in gullible hotheads who just guarantee their own

defeat by the choices that they choose to make.

[defacto7]

26. This

[madinmaryland]

10. I agree, but the govmt should be reigned in (trump). This is so yesterday, with the

orange shit storm we are living in.

[RandiFan1290]

11. Getting the excuses lined up again. nt

[spanone]

13. he said it should possibly be reformed......

not sure that's his exact word, but it conveys his meaning

[RandomAccess]

14. I am not disagreeing with Holder -- or agreeing, for that matter

But I am farkin sick and tired of having ANYTHING and EVERYTHING we do, think or say weighed in the balance of what the Republicans will think or do.

[shanny]

16. so much this

[OneBro]

29. What's wrong with thinking it through?

Seems that a part of any winning strategy is to consider how republicans might spin an issue to their political advantage.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. Mend it. Don't end it.

[shanny]

17. I'd go with, "Fumigate it."

[still_one]

18. Exactly AG Holder.

[GulfCoast66]

19. Wise man

[superpatriotman]

22. Holder will run for president

Mark it. You saw it here first.

[Oneironaut]

23. He's absolutely correct. "Abolish ICE" is the worst slogan ever.

Think how much better “reform ICE” would be? What “Abolish ICE” sounds like to undecided centrists is “Ignore immigration issues.” Time to stop chopping our own heads off and serving them to the Republicans on a platter.

[txliberal2016]

25. abolish and prosecute ice should be the slogan

we should stop tailoring our message to people who won’t vote for “ libruls” anyway and call the cops on children cutting grass.

[pnwmom]

27. NO IT SHOULD NOT. "Fix Ice" is the only slogan we need.