House Democrats are launching a renewed campaign to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) Washington, DC, home was raided this week by federal agents as part of a probe into whether or not the Somali-born congresswoman committed immigration fraud.

Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) officially introduced the Reimagining Safety Act, just one day after the raid on Omar’s residence by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents:

Ramirez said in a statement:

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According to Ramirez, the legislation would “dismantle DHS,” including ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and replace it with a “Department of Community Safety.”

In abolishing ICE, Ramirez’s bill, co-sponsored by Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), and Jim McGovern (D-MA), would halt border control, interior immigration enforcement, and migrant detention.

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“Today we are saying we want to abolish ICE,” Ramirez said. “We’re saying we want to end the detention that is creating profits for corporations at the expense of our very own family, friends, and neighbors.”

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“We have the job of protecting the homeland, and it should never be controversial … what it really comes down to is they’re anti-law enforcement,” Mullin said.

(*) Full article: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/10/15/federal-raid-ilhan-omars-home-spurs-renewed-effort-democrats-abolish-ice-must-be-dismantled/