On Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) doubled down on the radical left’s open-borders fever dream, admitting that abolish ICE doesn’t go far enough. We’ve got to start somewhere, and starting with ICE is a good place, he said, acknowledging the slogan’s flaw in zeroing in on Immigration and Customs Enforcement while glossing over the broader dismantling of America’s sovereignty. This isn’t just idle chatter from a freshman congressman—Thanedar, a former car parts entrepreneur turned blue-state ideologue, is echoing the Squad’s playbook, where starting somewhere means chipping away at federal enforcement until the whole border crumbles.
For the 2A community, Thanedar’s casual blueprint for bureaucratic Armageddon is a flashing red warning light. ICE isn’t just about deportations; it’s a key federal agency intertwined with ATF operations, sharing intel on cartel gun trafficking and smuggling networks that flood our streets with untraceable firearms. Abolish ICE, and you’re kneecapping the very tools that track how Chinese ghost guns and Mexican cartel ARs end up in Chicago gang wars—problems the gun-grabbers love to blame on law-abiding Americans. This is the slippery slope in action: defund and dismantle one agency, and the next target is the ATF’s bloated empire, paving the way for unchecked illegal arms flows while domestic 2A rights get squeezed harder. Progressives like Thanedar frame it as humanity, but it’s a Trojan horse for lawlessness that endangers every concealed carrier from Detroit to the Rio Grande.
The implications ripple outward like a mag dump from a suppressed 10/22. With midterms looming and border chaos at record highs—over 10 million encounters since Biden’s inauguration—Thanedar’s rhetoric fuels the narrative that weakens interior enforcement, indirectly boosting black-market gun pipelines that anti-2A zealots exploit to push red-flag laws and universal checks. 2A patriots, take note: supporting ICE isn’t optional; it’s frontline defense against the import of cartel firepower that makes every urban hotspot a potential ambush. Time to amplify this clip far and wide—before starting with ICE morphs into starting with the Second Amendment.
