Abdul El-Sayed, MI Dem U.S. Senate Hopeful: ICE Is ‘a Paramilitary Force of Thugs,’ Should Be Abolished

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is unconstitutional and a private army for President Donald Trump, Abdul El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American Muslim running strongly for the open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, says.

Trump “recognized that ICE and the pretext of immigration was the best way for him to create a paramilitary force of thugs who he could put on your street corner to be accountable only to him, and that is what he’s doing,” El-Sayed said, adding:

I went to Minneapolis to check it out for myself. And guess what? I know maps. I went to public school. Public schools in America, right? Minneapolis is not on the southern border. Wrong border. So [ICE] is not about immigration. This is about whether or not we want to live under a constitution and we believe in the rule of law. So I would like to abolish the agency that has existed,