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MORE is predicting that Democrats throwing their support behind calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will face blowback at the polls. “Well I hope they keep thinking about it, because they’re going to get beaten so badly,” Trump told Fox News's Maria Bartiromo in an interview excerpt released Saturday. “You know ICE, these are the guys that go in and take MS-13, and they take them out.

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  Tens of thousands of people flooded downtown Washington, D.C., on Saturday in protest of the Trump administration's immigration policies as took a defiant tone in a tweet amid the protests on Saturday afternoon, writing, "When people come into our Country illegally, we must IMMEDIATELY escort them back out without going through years of legal maneuvering." "Our laws are the dumbest anywhere in the world. Republicans want Strong Borders and no Crime.

Abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is fast becoming a litmus test for Democrats after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s shock victory in a Democratic primary. Sen. on Thursday became the first senator to call for the scrapping of ICE, arguing that it has become “a deportation force.” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) followed suit on Friday, saying, “We should abolish ICE.” And on Saturday, Sen.

Technology companies are facing a new crisis as their employees press executives to rethink their work with the Trump administration and in many cases drop lucrative federal contracts. The controversy comes amid heated national debates on immigration, law enforcement and surveillance — issues on which Silicon Valley's workforce wants the industry to take a stand. In the past month, workers at Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have organized and written letters calling on CEOs to cancel or review contracts with government agencies whose work the employees say raises ethical questions. Th

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The TAKE with Rick Klein A wave, it would seem, is already crashing. And it’s not respecting seniority or party lines. The upset of the year belongs to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a first-time candidate who, at 28, just beat the No. 4 Democrat in the House. Consider: Rep. Joe Crowley, 56, is a generation younger than Nancy Pelosi and her top two lieutenants.

The TAKE with Rick Klein Now it’s really on – and then some, and then some again. The battle for Justice Anthony Kennedy’s swing seat on the Supreme Court will play out with different rules governing a familiar game.

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