OPINION:
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, took to ABC’s “This Week” to tell the watching television audience that no, Immigration and Customs Enforcement should not be abolished and those who are calling for such ought to step to the back of the room and be quiet.
Finally. A Democrat with a little bit of sense.
A Democrat who’s not afraid of telling the progressive-socialists who’ve taken over the party to stop the stuff and nonsense and take a look at some facts.
“We are always going to need immigration enforcement,” Klobuchar said, Fox News reported. “I think we know that. We are a major country with major borders, so to me, the issue is what are those policies.”
And those policies, she went on, shouldn’t include the disbanding of ICE as an agency.
Her comments came amid a growing — and alarming — call from the likes of Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, as well as from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, to either outright abolish ICE or replace it with someone completely different.
Why? The left, by and large, wants open borders, plain and simple.
“The Liberal Left, also known as the Democrats, want to get rid of ICE, who do a fantastic job, and want Open Borders. Crime would be rampant and uncontrollable! Make America Great Again,” as President Donald Trump tweeted.
Of course, it’s not as if Klobuchar had turned Democratic tail and jumped aboard the Trump bandwagon.
“I think what has to change are the policies, and the people that are making these policies are making horrendous decisions like separating kids from their parents,” she said.
But at least she’s speaking of the ridiculousness of abolishing ICE. At least there’s a Democratic voice out there countering all the progressive blather and Democratic Socialists of America outrages.
It’s a small voice among many, true. But at least it’s a voice. And on an optimistic note: Out of one can spring many.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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