Sen. Bernie Sanders also demanded “fundamental reforms” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, saying they are “terrorizing” US communities.

US Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday demanded the removal of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller—a key architect of Donald Trump’s violent mass deportation campaign—as well as concrete reforms in exchange for any new funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In remarks on the Senate floor, Sanders (I-Vt.) called ICE a “domestic military force” that is “terrorizing” communities across the country. The senator pointed specifically to the agency’s ongoing activities in Minnesota and Maine, where officers have committed horrific—and deadly—abuses.

Sanders said that “not another penny should be given” to ICE or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “unless there are fundamental reforms in how those agencies function—and until there is new leadership at the Department of Homeland Security and among those who run our immigration policy.” The senator has proposed repealing a $75 billion ICE funding boost that the GOP approved last summer, an end to warrantless arrests, the unmasking of ICE and CBP agents, and more.

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    2 hours ago

    How about dining every member of literally every penny they can access, and also not another dollar for them, ever?

    We need a complete list of everyone who’s ever worked for them and blacklist them from every business. Shot down ICE, starve them of every penny they have, blacklist them from every business, every job opportunity, and every charity or welfare. Y’all can literally just rot in the street, we’ll clean you up later. Byyyye

    Of and take away legal recourse too.

    Don’t necessarily incentive just brutalizing them, because the goal is their suffering, not just execution. Don’t shorten the fun.

    Make content out of their attempts to secure food and housing.

    Sympathizers can suffer a sliding scale version of the punishment.