Cynthia Nixon To ‘The View’: “We Need To Abolish ICE”

Former Sex and the City actress and current New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon unleashed some strong opinions regarding the ongoing border crisis during her recent appearance on ABC’s The View. Nixon made it clear that the revolting practice of separating children from their parents wasn’t just taking place at the border, but that it was happening throughout the United States.

“Children aren’t just being separated at the border,” Nixon said. “They are being separated throughout this country by ICE. I think we need to abolish ICE. That seems really clear.”

The View’s Joy Behar asked the politician what she’d replace the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency with. Nixon believes if ICE is abolished, it doesn’t need to be replaced.

“ICE is relatively new,” Nixon said. “It came in after September 11th. We’ve been handling immigration and customs for a long time here; we don’t need ICE. They have strayed so far from the interests of the American people and the interests of humanity — we need to abolish it.”

Nixon went on to say that there were things that we could do throughout the country to protect undocumented people.

“In NY State, we need to be offering access to driver’s licenses to undocumented people,” Nixon continued. “When an undocumented person who cannot get a driver’s license gets stopped in a routine traffic violation, this is the number one way that ICE is finding people and picking them up. So if we really want to protect people on the ground, this is a concrete thing we can do to fight the Trump agenda. Not just rhetorically but with policy, if we’re really interested in protecting people.”

You can watch Nixon’s appearance on The View over on ABC News.

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