The Democratic National Committee just proved once again that November’s midterm elections come down to the sane versus the insane.
On August 15, 2026, the DNC staked out two positions on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during its summer meeting in Austin, Texas: a resolution seeking to abolish ICE entirely, and another looking to gut it. Both passed unanimously by voice vote.
So much for “the establishment.”
The DNC Resolutions Committee advanced the abolishment motion 25-12, urging “Democratic members of Congress to craft legislation abolishing ICE and enacting immigration reform that provides pathways to citizenship, protects workers, and ensures dignity for all impacted people.”
In a lame attempt to soften the proposal, the committee backed a separate resolution calling for “concrete reforms” to ICE.
Neither resolution is binding. The final DNC platform will be set at the 2028 Democratic National Convention.
“Democrats made it official: they care more about protecting violent illegal aliens than American families.”
Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters didn’t mince words in his response Saturday.
“While President Trump and Republicans are securing our border and standing with law enforcement, Democrats want to let dangerous illegal criminals run wild in our communities,” Gruters said. “This resolution is political suicide, and Democrats will pay for choosing open borders over public safety, border security, and backing the blue.”
The timing couldn’t be worse for Democrats.
After a staggering 11 million illegal aliens flooded into the United States during Joe Biden’s disastrous tenure, the Trump administration has secured the Southwest border.
On Thursday, DHS reported a 15th straight month of zero releases at the border.
“Again this month, the results are clear: President Trump’s border security agenda is restoring order and putting the safety of the American people first,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the press release.
Drug seizures are 54 percent higher over the current fiscal year than under Biden during the same period. Agents seized 1,054 pounds of fentanyl and nearly 80 pounds of heroin at the border as of July, DHS reported.
Corporate media outlets refuse to give Trump credit for the corresponding crime drops.
The Associated Press blamed “social isolation and difficulties accessing addiction treatment” for pandemic-era drug spikes when reporting a 14 percent decline in overdose deaths in 2025. AP couldn’t bring itself to note the obvious: Biden’s open border allowed a wave of cartel-funded drug pushers to pump poison into American communities at record rates.
NPR audaciously reported earlier this year that “Biden made big gains battling street fentanyl but lost the messaging war to Trump.”
The truth? Trump designated illicit fentanyl and its precursors as Weapons of Mass Destruction, treating the poison with the full force of national security tools. He designated cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. And he imposed tariffs targeting China and Mexico, forcing Beijing to tighten controls on 13 key precursor chemicals.
The administration has rounded up and deported some of the worst international drug pushers on earth.
On Friday, the FBI released official crime data for the first half of 2026, showing the U.S. homicide rate fell to its lowest level in the history of recorded data.
ICE arrested 51,000 violent criminals in July alone — the highest monthly number recorded by the Trump administration.
“Instead of trying to abolish ICE, Democrats should be thanking ICE law enforcement officers for putting their lives on the line to arrest and remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and gang members from American communities.”
The White House fired back hard at the DNC resolution.
“Many of these criminals were released from jails by Democrat radical politicians,” the White House said in a statement. “President Trump’s efforts to remove criminal illegal aliens from American communities is already delivering results including the lowest homicide rate in 125 years.”
Now a Democratic Party commandeered by the radical left wants to abolish the very agency protecting Americans from violent criminals. They can’t pretend otherwise any longer.
They just passed a resolution spelling out their intentions.
