"I think that people believe you should come to the country legally, and if you don't, you know, there should some penalty for that. They do believe that. But I don't think they want to abolish ICE. Well, you know the problem that we've seen before when people said abolish the police or defund the police. I don't think most people who said it believed that there should be no policing function in cities, but the implication was that there could be."
"So I don't think Democrats want to get into that. Again, I do think they want fundamental root and branch reform. And if it means getting rid of the name ICE, which has become a very bad brand, that's one thing. If it means that we're just gonna abandon immigration enforcement. I don't think Democrats or Republicans would support that in large numbers."
David Axelrod warned that advocating to abolish ICE could be politically unwise following the deaths of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti during altercations with federal agents in Minneapolis. A Fox poll indicates support for abolishing ICE has doubled since 2018 to 36 percent overall, with 59 percent of Democrats and 16 percent of Republicans in favor. Axelrod argued that most Americans support some form of immigration enforcement and compared abolishing ICE to 2020 'defund the police' rhetoric, asserting Democrats prefer fundamental reform and possible renaming rather than abandoning enforcement entirely.
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