4 Key Facts About ICE, and What Could Happen If It’s Abolished

The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas examines what would happen if Democrats were to get their wish and abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One of the most overlooked consequences: “Minority communities would be disproportionately harmed,” according to a senior ICE official.

“These minority communities are the primary victims now, because these individuals are involved in gang activity and other criminal activity and generally they commit those crimes against those in the same communities in which they reside,” Matthew T. Albence, ICE’s Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal, told the Senate Judiciary Committee last month.

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“As I meet with small business owners all over the country as head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, I constantly hear about the real investments they’ve been making in their companies and their employees since the tax cuts took effect – raising wages, providing bonuses and benefits, and creating more jobs,” SBA Administrator Linda McMahon writes in The Inquirer.

“After nearly two decades of strategically aimless military action in the Middle East, the Trump administration has apparently decided upon a new and smarter way to fight,” Michael Walsh writes in the New York Post. The President’s strategy entails “employing resurgent American economic power in the forms of tariffs, sanctions and trade deals.”

In The Hill, Job Creators Network President Alfredo Ortiz writes that thanks to President Trump’s tax cuts, American consumers feel better than ever about the economy. “The tax cuts mean that more money stays in communities and on Main Street, with less dollars shipped off to Washington. The latest indicators are just more proof of their resulting economic success.”

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