Abdul El-Sayed, MI Dem U.S. Senate Hopeful: ICE Is ‘a Paramilitary Force of Thugs,’ Should Be Abolished
by Neil Munro 2 May 2026
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is unconstitutional and a private army for President Donald Trump, Abdul El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American Muslim running strongly for the open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, says.
Trump “recognized that ICE and the pretext of immigration was the best way for him to create a paramilitary force of thugs who he could put on your street corner to be
accountable only to him, and that is what he’s doing,” El-Sayed said, adding:
I went to Minneapolis to check it out for myself. And guess what? I know maps. I went to public school. Public schools in America, right? Minneapolis is not on the southern border. Wrong border. So [ICE] is not about immigration. This is about whether or not we want to live under a constitution and we believe in the rule of law. So I would like to abolish the agency that has existed, in large part, to end, or at least push back against the rule of law and the Constitution.
Like that should be an obvious thing everybody should say.
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