On July 2 local Congressperson John Faso's campaign manager Tom Szymanski demanded Faso's opponent state his position on whether the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency should be closed. "Antonio Delgado's silence on this issue is disturbing. Mr. Delgado must immediately inform the voters of the 19th Congressional District if he stands with Mayor de Blasio, Kirsten Gillibrand, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cynthia Nixon and other fellow-Progressives on the loony left by wishing to abolish ICE. Voters deserve to know whether Mr. Delgado will work to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." But WGXC could not find any statements about not disbanding ICE on Faso's campaign website or on his Congressional website, so voters may be unsure about Faso's position on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Delgado, a Democrat, is now on the record, as he replied on Twitter July 3, saying he does not support abolishing ICE. "Congressman Faso should feel free to contact me directly with his inquiries about my positions -- I would be happy to exchange cell phone numbers so that he does not need his staffer to send out statements written by Paul Ryan," Delgado's Twitter account said. New York Senator Gillibrand has said she would like to "reimagine" the agency with a "very different mission.... I don't think ICE today is working as intended. ... I believe that it has become a deportation force, and I think you should separate the criminal justice from the immigration issues." New York's other senator, Chuck Schumer, has a slightly different opinion. “ICE does some functions that are very much needed,” Schumer said. “Reform ICE — yes. That’s what I think we should do.” A Harvard-Harris poll from June 24-25 found that about half of self-identified liberals said ICE should be disbanded; 41 percent of Democrats agreed, and 22 percent of Republicans also said the agency should be eliminated.