What Abdul El-Sayed has said about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

2 quotes · 1 episode · Jul 17, 2026

Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, has been quoted on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 2 times in 1 episode of Pod Save America, most recently on July 17, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

El-Sayed argues ICE cannot be reformed because a culture of impunity, once established, is nearly impossible to remove.
“anybody who's ever run a government agency will tell you that once you have a culture of impunity set in, it's almost impossible to take that out”
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El-Sayed contends ICE has become a tool for normalizing paramilitary force rather than enforcing immigration law.
“ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force in contraposition to the constitutional order itself”
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Trump's Explosive Diarrhea of the Mouth
Pod Save America · Jul 17, 2026 · 1 h 26 min
Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer dissect Trump's election-conspiracy prime-time address and administration scandals, then Alex Wagner interviews Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.