Democratic Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley responded to the announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids by calling for the abolition of ICE and defunding it and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The prominent democrats heavily criticized conditions on the southern border, with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) specifically comparing them to “concentration camps.”

Congress is about to review and vote on the emergency border supplemental bill, which would provide $1.2 billion to CBP and $128 million to ICE.

Democrats argued,that neither ICE nor CBP deserve funding due to how they treated families and children.

None of these politicians has ever visited the southern border, despite being invited by National Border Patrol Council to go and see for themselves the situation there.

A joint statement from Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., said:

“These radicalized, criminal agencies are destroying families and killing innocent children,”

ICE & CBP – radicalized, criminal agencies – are destroying families & killing innocent children. It is absolutely unconscionable to even consider giving one more dollar to support agencies that openly commit human rights abuses. #NotOneDollar #DefundHate pic.twitter.com/VixcmzF3NZ — Rep Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) June 22, 2019

We should not be giving one more dollar to support this President’s deportation force that openly commits human rights abuses and refuses to be held accountable to the American people. Kids and families can’t continue to die & be terrorized. We have an obligation to speak up! https://t.co/y42W4bFLWn — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 22, 2019

Meanwhile, President announced Saturday that a planned mass roundup of illegal immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is being delayed for two weeks.