{"id":9035,"date":"2018-07-04T12:10:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=9035"},"modified":"2018-07-04T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T19:10:52","slug":"amid-growing-calls-to-abolish-ice-sanders-calls-for-abolishing-americas-entire-cruel-dysfunctional-immigration-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/04\/amid-growing-calls-to-abolish-ice-sanders-calls-for-abolishing-americas-entire-cruel-dysfunctional-immigration-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Growing Calls to Abolish ICE, Sanders Calls for Abolishing America&#8217;s Entire &#8216;Cruel, Dysfunctional Immigration System&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"field-wrapper-attribution\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-date field--type-datestamp field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><span class=\"pb-timestamp\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">\u00a0July 03, 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<h4>&#8220;We must not be about forcing over 10 million undocumented people, many of whom have been here for decades, to continue living in fear and anxiety. Congress must do what the American people want. Let us create a humane and rational immigration system.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-authors\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\">by\u00a0<span class=\"pb-byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jake-johnson-staff-writer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Johnson, staff writer<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"shr_canvas2\" class=\"shareaholic-canvas shareaholic-ui shareaholic-resolved-canvas ng-scope\" data-app-id=\"6840204\" data-app-id-name=\"headline_above_content\" data-app=\"share_buttons\" data-title=\"Amid Growing Calls to Abolish ICE, Sanders Calls for Abolishing America's Entire 'Cruel, Dysfunctional Immigration System'\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/07\/03\/amid-growing-calls-abolish-ice-sanders-calls-abolishing-americas-entire-cruel\" data-summary=\"\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope shareaholic-share_buttons\" translate=\"no\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-container shareaholic-ui shr-no-print shareaholic-flat shareaholic- shareaholic-block shareaholic-horizontal shareaholic-mini\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-wrapper shareaholic-ui\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-animation-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-heading shareaholic-custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"ng-binding ng-scope\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-img field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"caption-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_large\/public\/headlines\/gettyimages-9685835701.jpg?itok=9RCkrmUi\" alt=\"\" width=\"955\" height=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-main-caption field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><em>\u00a0Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a Federal Spending Oversight And Emergency Management Subcommittee hearing June 6, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<p>Highlighting the fact that America&#8217;s inhumane treatment of immigrants reaches far beyond the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/06\/06\/terrorizing-immigrant-community-continues-ice-arrest-pizza-delivery-man-sends-shock\">despicable behavior<\/a>\u00a0of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)\u2014an agency that a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/07\/02\/abolish-ice-movement-grows-police-louisville-tear-down-latest-protest-encampment\">growing number of citizens and lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0have said they want to abolish\u2014Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) argued in a series of tweets on Tuesday that Congress must go further and &#8220;abolish the cruel, dysfunctional immigration system we have today and pass comprehensive immigration reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"pullquote\">&#8220;Bernie calls for abolishing our entire immigration system, which is honestly way further to the left than solely abolishing ICE.&#8221; \u2014Max Rivlin-Nadler,\u00a0<em>The Appeal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That will mean restructuring the agencies that enforce our immigration laws, including ICE,&#8221; Sanders wrote, noting that he opposed the establishment of ICE in 2002. &#8220;We must not be about tearing small children away from their families. We must not be about deporting DREAMers, young people who have lived in this country virtually their entire lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advocacy groups and activists celebrated Sanders&#8217; Twitter statement on Tuesday as a testament to the strength of the grassroots movement pushing for far-reaching reform that would both end the Trump administration&#8217;s barbaric practices and confront the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/779932\/democrats-oblivious-about-immigration-during-obama-years-now-theyre-enraged--hopefully-sorry\">systemic cruelty of the American immigration system<\/a>\u00a0that existed long before Trump arrived on the political scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bernie calls for abolishing our entire immigration system, which is honestly way further to the left than solely abolishing ICE,&#8221; Max Rivlin-Nadler, immigration and criminal justice reporter for\u00a0<em>The Appeal<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxRivlinNadler\/status\/1014206085350035457\">argued<\/a>\u00a0in response to Sanders&#8217; statement. &#8220;Which, I know, is not what people who say &#8216;abolish ICE&#8217; only want\u2014they too want to change our entire immigration system. Just saying that this possibly encompasses an even broader and more transformative change, albeit under a less catchy chant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-copyright-cond\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-copyright field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><em>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0July 03, 2018\u00a0by Common Dreams &#8220;We must not be about forcing over 10 million undocumented people, many of whom have been here for decades, to continue living in fear and anxiety. Congress must do what the American people want. 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