At The Nation: Abolishing ICE is the Bare Minimum
I don't know anything about the arrest of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander. I'm perfectly willing to believe that ICE was in the wrong. I just don't know the relevant facts and arguments.
However...
However...
This post at the Nation is symptomatic of the radicalization of the progressive left. Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum remedy, according to the author.
Which is roughly equivalent to:
Abolishing our borders is the bare minimum remedy for one (allegedly) bad arrest.
Obviously that's utterly mad.
Even assuming that the arrest was unwarranted, the bare minimum is something more along the lines of: disciplining (perhaps firing) the offending agents, and making Lander whole (e.g. by, well, giving him some money). I'm not saying that's the optimal response. I'm saying, rather, that it is utterly daft to claim that abolishing ICE is the bare minimum reasonable response. No one but an extremely radical radical could possibly think that was true.
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