Biden Speaks Out Against Abolition of ICE

Biden Speaks Out Against Abolition of ICE
Former Vice President Joe Biden responds to a question on Sept. 12, 2019, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. David J. Phillip/AP Photo
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Former Vice President and 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden recently spoke in opposition to calls from his party to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), saying the department should instead be reformed under new leadership.

“We shouldn’t abolish ICE. We should reform the system. ICE is not the problem,” Biden told reporters Friday afternoon in Concord, New Hampshire. “The policies behind ICE are the problem, and that’s easy enough to fix if the president knows what he or she is doing.”

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