Sen. Bernie Sanders also demanded “fundamental reforms” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, saying they are “terrorizing” US communities.
US Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday demanded the removal of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller—a key architect of Donald Trump’s violent mass deportation campaign—as well as concrete reforms in exchange for any new funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In remarks on the Senate floor, Sanders (I-Vt.) called ICE a “domestic military force” that is “terrorizing” communities across the country. The senator pointed specifically to the agency’s ongoing activities in Minnesota and Maine, where officers have committed horrific—and deadly—abuses.
Sanders said that “not another penny should be given” to ICE or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “unless there are fundamental reforms in how those agencies function—and until there is new leadership at the Department of Homeland Security and among those who run our immigration policy.” The senator has proposed repealing a $75 billion ICE funding boost that the GOP approved last summer, an end to warrantless arrests, the unmasking of ICE and CBP agents, and more.
Don’t pretend you know why they voted for Trump.
Every MAGAT I know would never vote for Bernie. Pretending otherwise is pure copium.
Trump won 2016 on a platform of anti-establishment populism, and widespread dislike of Hilary Clinton. He would have lost both of those advantages running against Bernie.
The only things he would have had left would be reactionary sensationalism, narcissistic sociopathy, jingo-nationalism, libertarian capitalist cronyism, racism, sexism, xenophonia, and homophobia.
And while those things might have had a strong hold on a concerningly large portion of the american populace, it would have been fairly niche and certainly not enough to have won an election that was already close as it was.
Trump won 2016 and 2024 because he has the Kremlin propaganda machine working for him. That’s why he has a cult following.
That too. Reactionary sensationalist populism is the modus operandi of kremlin-based foreign political interference
These dip shit cynics need to either stfu or leave the Democratic party. Your perspective is litterally why we can’t beat the fascists.
They’re called voters and they have communicated clearly through the election process that the majority of them are in the middle of the ideological spectrum and not interested in voting left of center. If leftists don’t wake up to that fact they will continue to lose elections.
Im talking about you, not voters.
You don’t speak for voters and you clearly don’t understand them.
The election results speak for the voters and I am just pointing out how the election results contradict your feelings of what voters want.
Democrats, as a franchise, lost the election because they failed to appeal to their base. They tried going for a non-existent, imaginary “center” voter, because, like you, their comprehension of what a voter is, what it takes to get a voter, and what default voter behavior will be, its fundamentally flawed.
Trump as the 2024 candidate was one of the least popular candidates of all time. He was one of the most defeat-able opponents in history. But, Democrats (and yourself), don’t understand the world they live in.
The majority of voters are in the middle of the spectrum not far left. The election results are proof of that.
Nation wide progressives/leftists lost more elections than democrats.
Trump won in 2024 because he had the help of election tampering, foreign propaganda and the billionaire class literally buying votes. Just to name of a few things.
Take your destructive world view, a world view that quite literally handed the government to fascists, and shove it up your ass.
You don’t know shit. Just like the DNC doesn’t know shit. And because you think you do, you handed this country to fascism.
Ok, have fun pretending your world view is real even though it is based on your experience in an echo chamber and not the real world.
The DNC will continue to win more elections than leftist/progressives.
Even as you do exactly that, lol. I looked at your post and moderation history; you have a thing for making sweeping proclamations based on nothing but the crust on your right buttcheek. Yeah, no. Blocked.
Stay in your safe place