ocasio-cortez supports ending the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement (ice) agency. she compared the agency to the patriot act and to a paramilitary-like agency. in june 2018, she said she would support ending the agency and she would rather "create a pathway to citizenship for more immigrants through decriminalization." she later said that this does not mean ending all deportations. two days before the primary election, she went to a protest at an ice child-detention center in tornillo, texas. she was the only democrat to vote against h.r. 648, a bill to fund and reopen the government, because it would give more federal money to ice.