Gallego says ICE must be ‘torn down’ as threat of troop deployment hangs over Minneapolis

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said Sunday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not delivering on what the public wants, saying it’s serving as a “goon squad” for the Trump administration.

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Gallego said President Donald Trump views the military as his “toy” and wants “nothing more” than to intimidate “blue cities.” He also argued that ICE needs to be “totally torn down” from its current duties. 

“From my experience running in Arizona, in a very hard, hard state when it comes to immigration and immigration issues, people want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals, right? And focuses on criminals. And immigration enforcement is actually focused on security and not the goon squad that has come