How a left-wing rallying cry burst into the mainstream as Trump implements his most extreme immigration policy yet

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• Calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement have picked up momentum on the left in recent weeks.
• The intensity coincides with the Trump administration's implementation of its "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
• Prominent Democratic members of Congress now support eliminating the 15-year-old agency tasked with enforcing immigration law and deporting undocumented immigrants.
• What began as a hashtag might very well force the Democratic party to the left on the central issue of immigration during the upcoming midterms.

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Just a month after President Donald Trump's inauguration, a 26-year-old undocumented woman with a brain tumor was taken against her will from a Texas hospital and placed in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. 

Sara Beltran Hernandez, an asylum seeker who said she fled domestic abuse and gang violence in El Salvador, was viewed as the latest victim of the Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented immigrants. 

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