Well, there's this:

https://truthout.org/articles/schumer-and-jeffries-refuse-to-back-growing-democratic-calls-to-defund-ice/

Remember: abolishing ICE is the compromise position. Never start negotiating with your end goal.

Schumer thinks the kill shot for the republican opposition is to focus on lowering grocery prices (something they honestly have no power or plan to do) while citizens are getting shot in the street.

I got a newsletter from Gillibrand and she doesn't even mention ICE, at the time a week after Renee Good was killed.

They're not even picking up the ball.

Schumer: Dems are overwhelming becoming a popular resistance because of ice and republican fuck ups.

Jeffries: Not good. We must fuck this up.

AOC and Bernie: 🙄

Mamdani: 😫

Fetterman: 🥹

I heard Elissa Slotkin in an interview the other day, and she would not commit to trying to pursue reduced funding for ICE, much less abolishing it…

Can’t drop a ball you don’t pick up.

Try never picking it up in the first place.

It is time for DHS interests to bribe the Democrats some more. Don't worry, they got this.

probably the fact that bill kristol is calling to abolish ice but dem leaders can't

These relics think the entire reason they lost was because of the bullshit immigrant propaganda pushed by the MAGAt right. So they think their path to success will be showing those MAGAts that they too are hard on immigrants, not even noticing the baby being washed out with the bathwater.

By not doing it.

Well, when you phrase it like that...

Yes

Yes.

If the Democrats had any interest in dialing back the police/surveillance state they would have done it during the Obama administration when they had a majority in all 3 seats of government. People are so goddamn naive.

ITT: People blaming everything on the party Americans voted out of power instead of the people actually doing the bad things.

Literally the only thing the democrats can do is whatever they can convince enough of the GOP to go along with, which isn't much. Many times the most they can do is write a strongly worded letter.

Are you capable of math? If D = 213 and R = 218, is D > R or is R > D? Oh right Americans can't do math, so blame the Democrats I guess!

Dumbest country on earth, blaming the opposition party for what the governing party is doing.

When there's FASCISTS in power, you are supposed to oppose the FASCISTS. This isn't hard.

Y'all can't come to terms with the fact that your country is being run by a fascist child molester dictator and just pretend like it's someone else running the country. Too embarrassed to admit y'all should've voted for the competent black lady instead of voting for deranged lunatic child molester. Or maybe you just didn't vote because of some bullshit "principles". When your principles result in fascism, you have some really stupid principles. Too embarrassed to admit you filled your heads with internet bullshit that you were unable to do the painfully obvious.

You're still incapable of opposing fascism because you still want to keep your heads filled with internet bullshit, never questioning where the bullshit is coming from.

Stupid fucking Americans.

If it ever comes to a vote, the Dems will have a significant minority vote against the dissolution of ICE, thus defeating the bill. No doubts about it.

Not sure what all they can do at this point. They’ve been so useless for so long, to let us get to this point where we have a king no Congress can stop.

They'll flip congress and then do nothing with it except focus on green and trans initiatives. They'll disagree with the executive branch but then do nothing to enforce their legal prerogative for checks and balances. It'll be a whole shit show of empty rhetoric. They learned nothing from the Biden term.

But (and I mean this sincerely), we have to vote Democrat to slow down this MAGA nonsense. Straight ticket democrat, even in municipal elections. Write in Barack Obama if there's an unopposed Republican candidate.