Michigan Democrat Sen candidate Abdul El-Sayed calls for abolishing ICE, says the ‘upper class’ is the ‘enemy’
El-Sayed campaigned alongside Representative Summer Lee and anti-American streamer Hasan Piker.
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El-Sayed campaigned alongside Representative Summer Lee and anti-American streamer Hasan Piker.
At a campaign event on Tuesday at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed promoted a range of far-left beliefs from Representative Summer Lee and anti-American streamer Hasan Piker.
During the rally, Congresswoman Lee told the crowd that the “upper class” is the real “enemy,” urging attendees to recognize divisions stoked by fear.
“I see other people who are fighting like hell to make you feel like your enemy is sitting next to you,” Lee angrily told the crowd. “That your enemy is somebody who worships differently than you are, or looks differently than you are, comes from a different socio-economic status than you, unless they are upper class, then that is your enemy.”
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As the crowd laughed, she ironically added that such tactics were “politics of fear and division.”
El-Sayed had his fair share of promoting far-left ideals, focusing on immigration enforcement and falsely claiming that ICE used a “child as bait.” He then called on the immigration agency to be abolished altogether.
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“ICE cannot be reformed. ICE cannot be retrained. ICE needs to be abolished,” he said to the standing ovation of the crowd.
The rally was also notable for El-Sayed’s collaboration with Piker, who has a history of extreme anti-capitalist and anti-American statements, including past remarks saying that “America deserved 9/11.” Piker himself has expressed anti-upper-class and anti-capitalist sentiment, having once said on a stream in regard to capitalists, “Yeah kill them! Kill those motherf*ckers and murder those motherf*ckers in the streets. Let the streets soak in their f*cking red capitalist blood.”
Piker endorsed El-Sayed for Senate, saying he is "what the moment needs, and that's why I said yes to coming on board."
When pressed about Piker’s controversial views outside another rally at Michigan State, El-Sayed declined to disavow them.
"I’m not here to disavow people's views," he said, according to the Washington Free Beacon. "This whole gotcha game, platform policing, cancel culture, I thought we were over it."
El-Sayed is competing in a three-way Democratic primary against Representative Haley Stevens and State Senator Mallory McMorrow.
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