{"id":2635783,"date":"2026-07-26T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dsa-co-chair-reaffirms-calls-to-abolish-senate-ice-and-borders-in-interview\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:16:20","slug":"dsa-co-chair-reaffirms-calls-to-abolish-senate-ice-and-borders-in-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dsa-co-chair-reaffirms-calls-to-abolish-senate-ice-and-borders-in-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"DSA co-chair reaffirms calls to abolish Senate, ICE, and borders in interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdsa-co-chair-reaffirms-calls-to-abolish-senate-ice-and-borders-in-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2635783&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic Socialists of america (DSA) co-chair Megan Romer has emphasized the group&#8217;s push to abolish the Senate, Immigration adn Customs Enforcement (ICE), and national borders, advocating for significant reforms in U.S. governance and immigration policies. Romer supports replacing the current Senate with a unicameral legislature, viewing it as an outdated institution designed to limit popular influence. She also expressed intentions to defund the Pentagon, overhaul the Supreme Court and Presidency, and promote government or public ownership of large corporations. Romer articulated long-term goals including immigration and prison reform, suggesting that addressing economic inequalities and destabilizing foreign policies could reduce migration and prison populations. Her views, which align with the DSA&#8217;s progressive platform-such as abolishing ICE and prisons in the long term-have attracted criticism from prominent Republican figures and disapproval from some mainstream Democrats, highlighting ideological divides ahead of the midterm elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-socialists-of-america\/\">Democratic Socialists of America<\/a> co-chair Megan Romer reaffirmed the party\u2019s calls to abolish the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/senate\/\">Senate<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ice\/\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>, and national borders in an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6YmTzlfVThE\">interview on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DSA, whose members include Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\/\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY) and New York City Mayor <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/zohran-mamdani\/\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, has become the leading force on the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\">Democratic Party\u2019s<\/a> progressive wing after DSA-backed candidates defeated several establishment Democrats in primary elections this summer. Romer stuck by many of her movement\u2019s more controversial policy objectives while speaking with Shannon Bream on <em>Fox News Sunday<\/em>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4663817\/dsa-calls-to-abolish-senate-ice-borders-interview\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>DSA co-chair reaffirms calls to abolish the Senate, ICE, and borders in interview<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4663822\/nba-star-slams-mamdani-mayor-playing-president\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>NBA star Kyle Kuzma slams Mamdani as \u2018a mayor playing president\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4663573\/katy-perry-appalled-to-see-song-used-white-house-tiktok-account\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Katy Perry \u2018appalled\u2019 to see her song used on White House TikTok account<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romer answered affirmatively when asked if she wants to defund the Pentagon and replace the Supreme Court and Presidency \u201cas we know them,\u201d and also said she supports \u201cgovernment or public ownership of most large corporations.\u201d When asked specifically about abolishing the Senate, Romer said the upper chamber is \u201can anachronistic institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is made to protect power for \u2014 the Senate was part of the system that was made to make sure that the people didn\u2019t have too much of a say. So we want to expand Congress significantly but make it a unicameral legislature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Majority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/steve-scalise\/\">Steve Scalise<\/a> (R-LA) responded to the comments on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteveScalise\/status\/2081437161857966493\">social media<\/a>, saying the \u201cDSA isn\u2019t just gaining influence in New York or California\u2026 these ideas could be coming to your community sooner than you think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Centrist Democratic figures such as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/4656969\/van-jones-hits-progressives-gobbling-up-democratic-party\/\">Van Jones<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4654805\/bill-maher-vance-vote-2028-president\/\">Bill Maher<\/a> have recently disavowed their party\u2019s leftward shift ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections. Democratic strategist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/carville-disavows-mamdani-backed-candidate-tells-her-start-her-own-party\">Bill Carville said<\/a> in late June that New York socialist House candidate Avila Chevalier should \u201cform her own party\u201d after her primary victory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpeakerJohnson\/status\/2081445353883042279\">also highlighted<\/a> Romer\u2019s comments on social media, likening voters\u2019 choice in November to that between \u201ccommon sense\u201d and \u201ccommunism.\u201d DSA candidates run on an anti-Israel platform that calls for the abolishment of immigration enforcement, higher wealth taxes, and Medicare for All.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romer referred to \u201clong-term\u201d ambitions in the context of immigration and prison reform, and said establishment Democrats \u201cshould be worried about the voters, and about what the voters think\u201d ahead of November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is part of this longer-term plan,\u201d Romer said when asked about DSA\u2019s calls to abolish ICE. \u201cIf we can get to a place where the U.S. is not destabilizing countries in order to mine them for resources, there will be significantly less migration\u2026 we\u2019re not saying open the borders tomorrow, we\u2019re saying rebuild an economy and a society that works for everyone. And the open borders is part of a longer-term, international plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4662432\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-socialists-america-abolish-senate\/\"><strong>AOC AND PROGRESSIVES POUR COLD WATER ON DSA\u2019S CALL TO ABOLISH THE SENATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked if she wants to \u201cabolish prisons, at least in large part,\u201d Romer said, \u201cas part of a long-term program, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo the long-term plan, when we think about most people who are in prison, they are mostly in prison for crimes of poverty,\u201d Romer said. \u201cSo when we get rid of this need for crimes of poverty to exist, when we get rid of that destabilizing force that creates so many people who are living in desperate situations and doing desperate things, that brings those numbers down to very small numbers, and then we can collectively decide what we do with those people. I suspect it won\u2019t look like the prison system as we know it today.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DSA co-chair Megan Romer reaffirms push to abolish Senate, ICE, borders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3238,"featured_media":2635785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/democratic-socialism-shirt.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[83244,74849,41893,40146],"class_list":["post-2635783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-abolish-borders","tag-dsa","tag-immigration-reform","tag-political-activism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/democratic-socialism-shirt.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635786,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635783\/revisions\/2635786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2635785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}