{"id":48320,"date":"2026-08-16T08:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=48320"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:17:35","slug":"dnc-passes-dueling-ice-resolutions-as-establishment-insurgents-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=48320","title":{"rendered":"DNC passes dueling ICE resolutions as establishment, insurgents clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/08\/15\/Democratic_National_Committee_Summer_Meeting_16964_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/democratic-national-committee\/\">Democratic National Committee<\/a> on Saturday voted to approve dueling resolutions affecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\/\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One resolution would call to abolish ICE, and one would call to reform it. Both were passed out of committee on Thursday, and the resolutions, which were part of a larger package of resolutions, were sent to the full membership and passed unanimously by voice vote.<\/p>\n<p>For Democrats, the battle over whether \u201cabolish\u201d ICE or \u201creform\u201d ICE language highlights the intraparty friction between establishment Democrats and far-left insurgents who have energized many party activists in the base that have become a powerful force in the midterm campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina DNC member John Verdejo said socialist candidates were beating establishment candidates because some longtime incumbents lost touch with the base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo a better job. Because if you were doing the job that we would like you to do, there\u2019d be no insurgents coming after you,\u201d he told The Washington Times. \u201cAll due respect, some of them got fat, while the rest of us were starving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution to abolish ICE passed out of committee 25-12 and included a heated debate among the members.<\/p>\n<p>DNC member Marge Hoffa, vice chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, argued unsuccessfully, \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t contradict ourselves by also introducing a resolution that would now call to abolish something that we have a well-established track record of calling to be drastically reformed.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Despite the additional passage of the \u201creform\u201d ICE resolution, the Republican National Committee went after the DNC for also adopting the \u201cabolish\u201d ICE resolution, calling it a resolution to \u201cabolish law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats made it official: they care more about protecting violent illegal aliens than American families,\u201d said Chairman Joe Gruters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile 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. This resolution is political suicide, and Democrats will pay for choosing open borders over public safety, border security, and backing the blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison pushed back hard when asked about whether the DNC has lurched leftward on policy \u2014 insisting the party organization is merely an \u201cinfrastructure\u201d body focused on winning elections, not setting policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DNC is not a policy organization. It is a party infrastructure. It focuses on making sure that you have the infrastructure to win elections,\u201d Mr. Harrison told The Washington Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t set policy. We are not a legislative committee. We are not the House. We are not the Senate. We\u2019re not governors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Harrison himself acknowledged that the DNC does produce a platform, which candidates run under a party banner, and voters are watching closely on flashpoint issues, including immigration enforcement, transgender policy and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe platform is a platform that the DNC comes up with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presidential candidate \u2014 that platform is what came up because it was a Joe Biden platform in which those are the core beliefs of what a Biden administration would have looked like because it was the Biden delegates who helped to craft that platform before the big switch.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"author-contact-section\">\n<\/section><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Democratic National Committee on Saturday voted to approve dueling resolutions affecting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One resolution would call to abolish ICE, and one would call to reform it. 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