AOC fundraises on trying to abolish ICE amid Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration

Republicans are ripping progressive New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for renewing her telephone to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) successful a caller fundraising email. 

"I judge that ICE, an bureau that was conscionable formed successful 2003 during the Patriot Act era, is simply a rogue bureau that should not exist," Ocasio-Cortez said successful a fundraising email obtained by Fox News Digital. 

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), House Republicans' run arm, criticized the imaginable 2028 statesmanlike campaigner in an X post for fundraising connected wanting to abolish ICE, a progressive rallying outcry that rejects President Donald Trump's crackdown connected amerciable immigration. 

"House Democrat Minority Leader AOC is doubling down connected their party’s astir extreme, unhinged agenda, portion the remainder of her enactment is bending their genu to the extremist wing. At this rate, the Democrat level successful 2026 volition beryllium a fever imagination of defunding the police, wide unfastened borders, and far-left hellscapes," NRCC Spokesman Mike Marinella told Fox News Digital successful a statement. 

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has agelong called to abolish ICE.  (Getty/AP)

"Why are you considered to beryllium extreme?" Ocasio-Cortez asked successful the fundraising email. It's a strategy often deployed by the progressive New Yorker, according to a Fox News Digital reappraisal of Ocasio-Cortez's run emails. 

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Ocasio-Cortez says she is considered "extreme" due to the fact that she supports Medicare for All, champions the Green New Deal, challenges Democratic Party leadership, believes successful "democratic socialism," is funded by small-dollar donations and believes ICE should "not exist."

The imaginable 2028 campaigner was astatine the forefront of the "abolish ICE" movement, a rejection of Trump's migration policies successful his archetypal administration, during her 2018 legislature run erstwhile she unseated longtime Democrat incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley. 

While older, mean Democrats haven't been arsenic vocal astir abolishing ICE, different young progressive, who has faced vigor wrong his party for a program to superior situation older Democratic incumbents successful harmless bluish districts who are "asleep astatine the wheel," DNC vice seat David Hogg, has besides called to "abolish ICE."

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., greet the assemblage unneurotic during a "Fighting Oligarchy" circuit lawsuit astatine Arizona State University connected Mar. 20, 2025, successful Tempe, Ariz.  (Ross D. Franklin/AP)

"We indispensable admit the terrifying infinitesimal that we are successful close now, and that what we are proceeding and seeing with our ain eyes is, successful fact, happening. We are watching arsenic our neighbors, students and friends are being fired, targeted and disappeared. It is real. People we emotion are being targeted and harassed for being LGBTQ. Our co-workers, U.S. citizens and immigrants alike are being disappeared disconnected the thoroughfare by men successful vans with nary uniform," Ocasio-Cortez told a assemblage successful Montana connected Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" Tour. 

Ocasio-Cortez has an ongoing feud with Trump's borderline czar, Tom Homan, arsenic the New York congresswoman instructs her constituents how to impede ICE arrests. Ocasio-Cortez is facing a potential Department of Justice probe for a webinar she hosted successful February connected however to grip ICE agents. 

Ocasio-Cortez and Homan person traded jabs implicit Trump's crackdown connected amerciable immigration.  (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images, left, Jim WATSON / AFP, right. )

The Trump medication has led a robust crackdown connected amerciable migration since returning to the White House this year. During the archetypal 100 days of Trump's 2nd term, ICE arrested 66,463 amerciable immigrants and removed 65,682, according to ICE.

The bureau said 3 successful 4 of those arrests of illegal immigrants progressive idiosyncratic accused of committing a crime. 

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The Fox News Voter Analysis successful 2024 recovered that 52% of voters said Trump was the amended campaigner to grip immigration, portion conscionable 36% said Harris. Additionally, it was a apical contented for voters, with 20% saying it was the astir important contented facing the country. 

Ocasio-Cortez, Homan, DHS and the DCCC did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment. 

Fox News Digital's Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.