Jeffries clashes with left-wing podcast host over demand to lead push to 'abolish ICE'
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries clashed with podcast host Wajahat Ali over ICE policy during Joy Reid's show, rejecting calls to lead push to abolish the immigration enforcement agency.
Hanna Panreck is an associate editor at Fox News.
Ali demanded Jeffries lead the push to abolish the agency all together.
"I'm going to be a bit blunt here. Leaders lead, and what we've seen is people are impressionable. If you lead on something, people will follow. It seems the wind is behind your back for the first time ever. ICE has a history, CPP has a history of terrorizing Black and Brown communities," he said. "People are asking themselves, why are we, our taxpayer dollars, paying for masked, lawless men to terrorize our communities, kidnap people, take children, and kill Americans?"
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries clashed with podcast host Wajahat Ali over ICE policy during Joy Reid's show, rejecting calls to lead push to abolish the immigration enforcement agency.
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