Nothing the Democrats do with appropriations is going to affect what ICE is doing right now.

If DHS has its funding frozen, do you think the Trump Admin is going to furlough ICE? Fuck no. They didn’t during the last shutdown either. What Trump would more likely do is something like shutter the TSA, canceling all domestic air travel, and blame it on Democrats.

If the Democrats had real leverage here, they should absolutely stop ICE funding, but they don’t have that leverage right now. What they need to be doing is speaking clearly and passionately about the atrocities being committed and call explicitly for the abolition of ICE, but unfortunately they still sound weak as hell as a party.

Ummm eat the rich asap anybody? Luigi Mangione had an 80% approval rating because most Americans thought his alleged actions were efficient… So… Yeah…

Per the article, these Democratic reps are ‘hesitant’:

Andy Kim (NJ)
Tammy Baldwin (WI)

Democrats supporting pulling all funding from ICE:\

• Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03, Phoenix)
• Jared Huffman (CA-2, San Rafael)
• John Garamendi (CA-8, Walnut Grove)
• Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10, Concord)
• Lateefah Simon, (CA-12, Emeryville)
• Ro Khanna (CA-17, Fremont)
• Jimmy Panetta (CA-19, Carmel Valley)
• Judy Chu (CA-28, El Monte)
• Luz Rivas, (CA-29, Los Angeles)
• Laura Friedman, (CA-30, Glendale)
• Brad Sherman (CA-32, Sherman Oaks)
• Jimmy Gomez (CA-34, Los Angeles)
• Ted Lieu (CA-36, Los Angeles)
• Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37, Los Angeles)
• Linda Sánchez (CA-38, Lakewood)
• Mark Takano (CA-39, Riverside)
• Robert Garcia (CA-42, Long Beach)
• Maxine Waters (CA-43, Inglewood)
• Nanette Barragán (CA-44, San Pedro)
• Dave Min, (CA-47, Irvine)
• Mike Levin (CA-49, San Juan Capistrano)
• Sara Jacobs (CA-51, San Diego)
• Juan Vargas (CA-52, San Diego)
• Diana DeGette (CO-1, Denver)
• Joe Neguse (CO-2, Boulder)
• Rosa DeLauro (CT-3, New Haven)
• Sarah McBride (DE-AL, Wilmington)
• Darren Soto (FL-9, Orlando)
• Maxwell Frost (FL-10, Orlando)
• Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20, Miramar)
• Frederica Wilson (FL-24, North Miami)
• Hank Johnson (GA-4, Lithonia)
• Nikema Williams (GA-5, Atlanta)
• Jill Tokuda (HI-2, Kāneʻohe)
• Jonathan Jackson (IL-1, Chicago)
• Delia Ramirez (IL-3, Chicago)
• Chuy García (IL-4, Chicago)
• Danny Davis (IL-7, Chicago)
• Jan Schakowsky (IL-9, Chicago) (retiring at end of 119th Congress)
• André Carson (IN-7, Indianapolis)
• Morgan McGarvey (KY-3, Louisville)
• Troy Carter (LA-2, New Orleans)
• Chellie Pingree (ME-1, North Haven)
• Kweisi Mfume (MD-7, Baltimore)
• Jamie Raskin (MD-8, Takoma Park)
• Debbie Dingell (MI-6, Ann Arbor)
• Rashida Tlaib (MI-12, Detroit)
• Shri Thanedar (MI-13, Detroit)
• Ilhan Omar (MN-5, Minneapolis)
• Steven Horsford (NV-4, Las Vegas)
• Donald Norcross (NJ-1, Camden)
• Frank Pallone (NJ-6, Long Branch)
• Nellie Pou (NJ-09, North Haledon)
• LaMonica McIver (NJ-10, Newark)
• Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12, Trenton)
• Melanie Stansbury (NM-1, Albuquerque)
• Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-3, Santa Fe)
• Grace Meng (NY-6, Queens)
• Nydia Velázquez (NY-7, Brooklyn)
• Yvette Clarke (NY-9, Brooklyn)
• Dan Goldman (NY-10, Manhattan)
• Jerry Nadler (NY-12, Manhattan) (retiring at end of 119th Congress)
• Adriano Espaillat (NY-13, Manhattan)
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14, Bronx)
• Paul Tonko (NY-20, Albany)
• Valerie Foushee (NC-4, Hillsborough)
• Alma Adams (NC-12, Charlotte)
• Shontel Brown (Ohio-11, Warrensville Heights)
• Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1, Beaverton)
• Maxine Dexter (OR-03, Portland)
• Val Hoyle (OR-4, Springfield)
• Andrea Salinas (OR-6, Tigard)
• Brendan Boyle (PA-2, Philadelphia)
• Dwight Evans (PA-3, Philadelphia)
• Madeleine Dean (PA-4, Abington Township)
• Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5, Swarthmore)
• Summer Lee (PA-12, Swissvale)
• Chris Deluzio (PA-17, Fox Chapel)
• Veronica Escobar (TX-16, El Paso)
• Joaquin Castro (TX-20, San Antonio)
• Jasmine Crockett (TX-30, Dallas)
• Greg Casar (TX-35, Austin)
• Lloyd Doggett (TX-37, Austin)
• Becca Balint (VT at-Large)
• Jennifer McClellan (VA-4, Richmond)
• Don Beyer (VA-8, Alexandria)
• Emily Randall (WA-6, Tacoma)
• Pramila Jayapal (WA-7, Seattle)
• Adam Smith (WA-9, Bellevue)
• Mark Pocan (WI-2, Madison)
• Gwen Moore (WI-4, Milwaukee)
• Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)

Name and shame.

They are by definition no longer a Democrat. The people don’t want ICE in their neighborhood. They are free to go to the states that voted for this.