Ilhan Omar, AOC, and many other radical Democrats in the House want Biden to end ICE contracts with state and local jurisdictions to prevent illegals from being detained and subsequently deported:
FOX NEWS – Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., led a group of progressive Democrats on Monday in demanding that President Biden’s administration end contracts between federal immigration enforcement agencies and state and local detention facilites.
A letter spearheaded by Omar on Monday urged Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice to “rein in a system of detention built on a disproven myth that immigrants fail to appear in court.”
Omar was joined by fellow “Squad” members Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.. alongside other progressive Democrats. Twenty-three House Democrats in all signed the letter.
In a press release issued Monday, Omar said the government “must truly sever the financial incentives” that are “causing the expansion” of an “abuse-ridden system of mass incarceration.”
“Phasing out DHS contracts with localities for immigration detention is a much-needed step toward restoring basic humanity to our immigration system,” she said. “We must truly sever the financial incentives causing the expansion of an unnecessary and abuse-ridden system of mass incarceration. Now is our chance to stop this abusive system from causing more unnecessary harm.”
The letter called on the Biden administration to “phase out” contracts between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshall Service (USMS) and local and state jails that hold migrants caught illegally crossing the border through an “additional” executive order accompanying his one from Jan. 26, 2021.
“We urge the Biden administration to release an additional Executive Order announcing a plan to phase out contracts between ICE and state, county, and local jails and prisons,” the letter read.
Quoting from the actual letter, this is all about the 200 detention facilities operated by ICE “for the purposes of detaining immigrants”:
ICE operates a sprawling network of more than 200 detention facilities.[3] The majority of these facilities operate through contracts between ICE (or, less commonly, the U.S. Marshals Service – USMS) and localities for the purposes of detaining immigrants.
This is what they want to put a stop to and thus turn America into a sanctuary country. It’s despicable, but it’s also a true threat considering that Biden campaigned on being the ‘migrant president’ and has already undone Trump’s policies that were protecting the border from the incredible surges we are seeing now.