Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib says she will vote against an emergency supplemental bill that would provide an additional $1.2 billion in funding to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which includes $128 million for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
In a statement issued on Sunday with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), the progressive congresswomen went a step further and called on ICE to be abolished.
In the statement, they noted the agency's "blatant human rights abuses" and said they "can't in good conscience" approve more money for a "fundamentally cruel and broken immigration system."
The emergency border supplemental bill will come before the House in the coming weeks.
It arrives as ICE continues running what some are labeling concentration camps for migrants. The agency is responsible for the deaths of multiple children at the detention camps, and children and adults are being denied toothbrushes, medical assistance, and are generally being kept in squalid conditions.
The Trump administration also recently announced massive immigration raids that were supposed to take place this weekend but were delayed until after Vice President Mike Pence holds his "Latinos for Trump" event in Florida.
The statement from the congresswomen reads:
“The Trump Administration would rather criminalize immigrants, separate families, and detain refugees than practice empathy and compassion.…