Over the moon with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Morning Joe this morning. She was superb.

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68. Concerning "abolishing ICE"

ICE was formed from different agencies, and serves other functions than enforcement of illegal immigrants.

"The agencies that were either moved entirely or merged in part into ICE included the investigative and intelligence resources of the United States Customs Service, the criminal investigative, detention and deportation resources of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Federal Protective Service. The Federal Protective Service was later transferred from ICE to the National Protection and Programs Directorate effective October 28, 2009. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement

ICE also handles customs, investigation of human trafficking, counterterrorism, processing green card applications and student visas.

One would have to rehouse those other agencies, and keep border security in some form. Contrary to what the GOP says, "open borders" is not the only alternative to reforming the immigration situation.

I'm sure that there wasn't room on the flyer for her to go into how she would manage all this, or what her plan was past the election, but I hope that she has done far more research and consultation with non-partisan experts who work in the area of immigration, customs and visa than was done for Medicare for All plan in its current form.