House Dem Caucus Chair: ICE Has ‘Too Much Money’, Those Calling for Abolition ‘Reflecting What They Are Hearing’, I Don’t Want to Abolish ICE

On Friday’s “CNN News Central,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) said that he doesn’t support abolishing ICE, but the agency does have “too much money from our perspective” and House Democrats calling for the abolition of ICE “are reflecting what they are hearing back home in their communities.”

Co-host John Berman asked, “What do you think of these calls to abolish ICE?”

Aguilar said, “Well, what I think is that our members are reflecting what they are hearing back home in their communities. And people are scared, people are frightened, people are concerned that U.S. citizens are getting scooped up or that U.S. citizens could lose their lives protesting in disagreement with ICE. The Department of Homeland Security funds ICE. They receive