Democrats' calls to abolish ICE will abandon trafficked migrant children
Source: "Democrats call to abolish ICE as 146,000 missing migrant children found | Fox News." June 13, 2026. www.foxnews.com
The Gist
The author argues that Democrats who want to get rid of ICE are basically abandoning thousands of missing migrant children who have been trafficked. He says ICE is crucial for finding these kids, and Democrats only oppose it because admitting the problem would make their immigration policies look bad.
Conclusion
Democrats' calls to abolish ICE are morally wrong and dangerous because they would eliminate the primary agency responsible for finding and rescuing trafficked migrant children
Premises
- 146,000 migrant children who went missing during the Biden administration have been found since Trump took office, with at least 150,000 still missing
- ICE has played a vital role in locating missing migrant children, many of whom have been trafficked and abused
- Health and Human Services has a backlog of more than 65,000 reports of migrant child trafficking that have not been investigated
- Democratic politicians like Abdul El-Sayed trivialize immigration enforcement by comparing it to 'getting a parking ticket'
- Democrats want to avoid admitting the scale of missing children because it would expose the failures of Biden's immigration policies
- The majority of elected Democrats believe that nobody should be looking for these missing and abused children
Assumptions
- ICE is the primary or most effective agency for finding trafficked migrant children
- Democrats' opposition to ICE is primarily motivated by political considerations rather than genuine policy concerns
- The missing children statistics are accurate and directly attributable to immigration policy failures
- Abolishing ICE would necessarily mean ending efforts to find trafficked children