February 5, 2026 | Rapid Response | Sonali Patel

DHS Secured The Border, Now Dems Want To Dismantle It

Rapid Response

Under the leadership of President Trump, migrant encounters at the southern border have fallen to the lowest level in over 50 years — now Democrats are trying to reverse this progress and abolish immigration enforcement altogether because four years of letting millions of criminal illegals pour into the country wasn't enough for them.

 

Voters overwhelmingly support President Trump's efforts to deport criminal illegals, and the results have been day-and-night compared to Biden:

  • Two million illegal aliens have self-deported and more than 650,000 have been forcibly removed.
  • Border wall construction has resumed.
  • The United States murder rate is the lowest in 125 years now that the worst of the worst are off the streets.
  • The U.S. saw negative net migration for the first time in 50 years.

Yet Democrats are vowing to reverse these successes by calling to abolish ICE and DHS: 

  • California Rep. Robert Garcia: "ICE needs to be abolished. It cannot be reformed."
  • California Rep. Ro Khanna says ICE should not exist.
  • Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson doubles down on abolishing ICE. 
  • Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says yes to abolishing ICE.
  • Illinois Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton: “I want to abolish ICE… it doesn’t matter whose ICE it is.”
  • Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez: "We need to abolish ICE...they should not be in any of these cities."
  • Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi: "I want to abolish the funding and Trump's ICE... this is completely unacceptable."
  • Illinois Rep. Robin Kelly: "Dismantle ICE, but also Border Patrol...the agency that looks over citizenships...all of it needs to be dismantled." 
  • Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley: “We need to abolish ICE, Kristi Noem needs to resign or be impeached.” 
  • Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton: "I've been very vocal about this...[ICE] needs to be abolished."
  • Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar: “There is no way to reform it… we must abolish ICE.”
  • Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar: "ICE cannot be reformed, it cannot be rehabilitated, we must abolish ICE for good."
  • Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan calls to abolish ICE.
  • Minneapolis Council Member Jamison Whiting says yes to abolishing ICE.
  • Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen: "They are just thugs... we're gonna shut down Homeland Security..."
  • New Hampshire U.S. Senate Candidate Karishma Manzur calls to abolish ICE.
  • New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson: "We need to dismantle the DHS."
  • New Jersey Reps. Rob Menendez & LaMonica McIver calls for ICE to be abolished
  • New York Rep. Dan Goldman: "We have to tear it down, abolish it, eliminate..."
  • Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee: “We can’t unmask fascism and cruelty and oppression… the call now is to abolish this agency.”
  • Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal: "As soon as we get the gavels back, we have to dismantle DHS and ICE and CBP." 

President Trump is proving that uncontrolled, mass-illegal immigration was always a choice and Democrats are still choosing an open border.