Setareh Ghandehari, who serves as an advocacy director of the anti-immigration detention group Detention Watch Network and promotes the hashtag “AbolishBorders” took to social media to brag about her high level meeting with a Biden administration official.
Ghandehari said she met with Michael D. Lumpkin, the chief of staff for the Biden Administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday. The open border supporter said the meeting held the purpose of sharing the organization’s demands.
“Yesterday I met with ICE’s new Chief of Staff to make clear our demands for a world without ICE detention & a future where all people are able to live freely w/ the support of their community and loved ones, not behind bars as they navigate their immigration cases,” Ghandehari said.
“The Biden administration can still take steps towards making that world a reality by shutting down detention centers, like Torrance, Winn & Adelanto, that have exemplified an entirely unrepairable & unnecessary detention system that must be abolished completely,” Ghandehari said, referring to ICE detention centers, in another message she sent out on X on Wednesday.
It is disturbing that the administration would even acknowledge such a group, let alone indulge them with a meeting. The Daily Caller News Foundation reports on the horrendous border statistics:
The Biden Administration has limited immigration enforcement to those deemed to be threats to public safety and national security. Additionally, the Biden Administration has let thousands of detention beds go empty while taxpayers still foot the bill for them.
ICE held an event in December 2022, where it hosted a panel featuring Peter Markowitz, a law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and director of the school’s Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic who once created his own “blueprint” to “allow us to abolish ICE.”
