El-Sayed said that under his leadership, Michigan would stop using state resources to enforce federal immigration policy. He would push for legislation to prevent local governments from participating with ICE, support making driver’s licenses available to undocumented immigrants, and spend taxpayer money on job training, professional relicensing, and English classes for immigrant communities—including refugees.
El-Sayed:
Under my leadership, our state will not expend a dime of state taxpayer resources enforcing federal immigration policy that at best is incoherent, at worst is heartless. We will not participate with them through our state police. We will not participate with them through the state Department of Corrections because I do not believe that they are doing what’s in the best interest of our state because every time we watch one of these deportations, you’re talking about a family that’s been torn apart and you’re talking about a portion of our economy that’s been shipped out. And I’m not willing to be a part of that.
Beyond that, I look forward to pushing forward legislation that would preempt localities from participating with ICE and using their local resources to do the same. Beyond that, we’ve also got to make sure that in this state, we are not discriminating by documentation status.
Right now, if you’re undocumented, you don’t get access to a driver’s license, so you’re stuck, you don’t get access to a lot of the basic things the state offers everybody else. And I think that’s ridiculous. And so we’ve got to stop discriminating that way.
And I also believe that we’ve got to make sure that if we’re honest and serious about empowering our immigrant communities, that we’ve got to put some money behind making sure that folks have the access to be able to train in their profession of choice, to be able to get relicensed to do what they do here in the United States and invest in basic things like English language training.
Interviewer:
Would refugees be a part of this plan?
El-Sayed:
Absolutely. We as a country, I believe, owe it to the world to open our doors, and we’re better because of it, right?
I’ve never met an immigrant in my life who didn’t want what’s best for their family and what’s best for our country.
When asked whether refugees would be included in his plan, El-Sayed said, “Absolutely,” adding that the country “owe[s] it to the world to open our doors.” He then said he has never met an immigrant who didn’t want what was best for their family and this country.
El-Sayed talks about families being “torn apart” by deportation. What about American families permanently torn apart when someone in this country illegally murders a loved one? Those families don’t get a reunion. They get a funeral.
Perhaps he should spend less time congratulating himself on whom he welcomes and more time listening to the families who will never welcome their loved ones home again.
Look at these stories of illegal alien crime and tell me how El-Sayed’s proposals to block cooperation with ICE would make Americans safer. → https://exposethemedia.com/illegal-alien-headlines-the-media-wont-report/
These cases show what happens when the people he refuses to see get protection from ICE.
Is this what you voted for, Michigan?
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