Nirav Shah says ICE reform would be worth a shutdown<\/p>\n
FREEPORT \u2014 Nirav Shah said Monday he would not support any additional funding for federal immigration enforcement efforts until the agency is reformed and held accountable for its aggressive tactics under President Donald Trump, even if opposing the funding would lead to a government shutdown.<\/p>\n
Shah, the state\u2019s former director of Center for Disease Control and prevention, criticized Republican Sen. Susan Collins for appropriating $70 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement through the end of Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would vote \u2018no\u2019 on any appropriations for ICE,\u201d Shah said at a news conference. \u201cThey have proven themselves unable and incapable of discharging their mission in a manner that does not result in the murder of Americans and other citizens. By definition, they have lost their way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shah was addressing reports that a man was shot and killed by authorities in Biddeford on Monday and that ICE was involved.<\/p>\n
Shah, a Democrat, is one of a half dozen or so Democrats running in a pop-up primary for U.S. Senate, after Democratic nominee, Graham Platner, withdrew from the race after a Maine woman accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2021. He denied the accusation.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters after a policy rollout, Shah said an estimated 8-10 people have been killed by federal law enforcement in Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n
Shah said shutdowns, whether total or partial, are \u201ctroubling,\u201d but may be necessary to reform the agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you take the position that we should not shut down the federal government, then what you are saying is that: those numbers of eight to 10 people, that\u2019s just not enough people, and that is absolutely morally unacceptable,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so I refuse to say, well, that\u2019s not enough death or destruction. That is a cowardly position, and I will not embrace it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nirav Shah says ICE reform would be worth a shutdown FREEPORT \u2014 Nirav Shah said Monday he would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-760967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}