An immigrant U.S. congressman who speaks English far less than fluently has introduced a bill that would abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Responding to ICE agents’ enforcing the law in Minneapolis, where they shot and killed one woman and shot an illegal alien — both times in self-defense — far-left Democrat Shri Thanedar of Michigan has introduced the Abolish ICE Act.
Thanedar is one of seven Indians in Congress, all of whom are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and all of whom are Democrats.
Like immigrant congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Thanedar thinks ICE agents are terrorists. He also thinks they’re murderers.
Not Reporting the Facts
Thanedar’s pro-illegal immigration bill cites several reasons for scrapping ICE, all of them related to enforcing immigration laws.
The bill accuses ICE of ignoring “due process” and says Trump
unleashed ICE to carry out mass arrests and deportations of noncriminal immigrants in the United States, with approximately 70 percent of arrests made by immigration agents in 2025 being detainees who had no criminal record.
In fact, illegal aliens are criminals, per 8 U.S. Code 1325. But anyway, the bill cites the immigration raid on two pot farms in California, where ICE bagged 360 illegals, and the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez “after [agents] attempted to detain him during a traffic stop. Prior to being killed, Gonzalez had just dropped his children off at school.”
In fact, as ICE reported at the time, Gonzalez was a criminal “arrested in Chicago several years ago for reckless driving, assault, speeding, [and] driving without a license or insurance who pleaded guilty to four traffic violations.” When he tried to speed away, he dragged one of the agents a “significant distance.” Thus the shooting. The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good last week in Minneapolis was also dragged by an illegal alien who attempted to flee in his car.
The bill complains about a lawful immigration raid, and complains about an ICE agent’s shooting of a man in California. Keith Porter Jr. The bill avers that Porter
attempted to celebrate the New Year by discharging his firearm into the air when the off-duty ICE officer approached Porter, shooting and killing him.
In fact, as Department of Homeland Security spokesman Tricia McLaughlin told the Los Angeles Times, the agent lived in the same apartment building as Porter and thought he was an “active shooter.” The two exchanged gunfire.
Reprising the fatal shooting of Good last week, the bill claims Good attempted to flee from ICE because she was “fearing for her safety.” In fact, the agent’s cellphone video shows another agent’s lawfully ordering Good out of her car four times. She refused those orders, then plowed into the agent.
Inflicting Terror?
“ICE has been weaponized to inflict terror and hysteria amongst American immigrant and non-immigrant communities,” the bill falsely claims. It “is not an organization bound by the rule of law, is past the point of reform, and must be abolished.”
The bill rescinds funding for ICE and abolishes the agency 30 days after enactment.
Indian Immigrant
Speaking about his bill at a news conference, the immigrant from Belgaum, Karnataka, India, still sounded like he just got off the boat, despite living in the U.S. since 1979.
“We must reform ICE, but it looks at this stage, folks, ICE is beyond reform,” he said in near-broken English:
ICE is totally out of control.…
We need to make ICE go away. 2003, before 2003, without ICE, various federal agencies were able to take care of business and we can do this without ICE. But we do not need the murderers, we do not need this paramilitary organization’s members on our street terrorizing U.S. citizens, terrorizing moms, terrorizing our children.
Not surprisingly, flanking Thanedar were Democratic representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, the far-left immigration fraudster; insurrection sympathizer and cop-killer apologist Bennie Thompson of Mississippi; and censured, cane-waving Al Green of Texas.
Thanedar isn’t the only Indian immigrant to call ICE agents “terrorists.”
So also did Pramila Jayapal of Washington.
“ICE is acting like a terrorist force,” she wrote on X in June:
People across the country of all legal statuses — including U.S. citizens — are being kidnapped and disappeared off the street by masked men.
No oversight, no accountability. Completely lawless.
Indians, of course, aren’t the only subversives calling ICE agents terrorists and murderers, or worse, Nazis or Gestapo agents. Americans who should know better are as well.
Indians in Congress (all Democrats) born in the United States to immigrant parents are:
The Indian immigrants are Jayapal, Thanedar, and Ami Bera (D-Calif.).
