Swalwell said the ongoing discussions he’s having with other Democrats would go further than that, making ICE funding contingent on first prohibiting masks.
Swalwell said the ongoing discussions he’s having with other Democrats would go further than that, making ICE funding contingent on first prohibiting masks.
“Funding” ICE? Like, you’re saying that it shouldn’t have funding?
I mean, ICE is the US’s border control. Like, they enforce regulation of movement of people and goods. The US hasn’t had uncontrolled borders in terms of people just rolling in and living and working there since ~1870 and I don’t know if it’s ever had fully unrestricted movement of goods; historically, high-tariffs/low-tariffs was a major part of American politics.
I’m pretty confident that there’s no chance of an open-border US happening in the foreseeable future (and ditto for probably all developed countries, though you might get stuff like the European Union…but that’s more analogous to states in the US, where the EU just pushed border control to the outer perimeter of a collection of states that internally agreed to common rules on borders).
ICE has no purpose. They’ve only been an agency since 2003. America was doing fine before 2003. In fact many of us think it was better back then!
That was just when the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Customs Service merged. The people and infrastructure and all that were already there. I mean, okay, sure, you could probably return to that state of affairs, split them up again on an organization chart, but I’m assuming that that’s not what anyone saying that they don’t want to fund ICE is concerned about.
So disband ICE and rebuild the INS and Customs Service. ICE is irrevocably tainted.
ICE has a purpose but the existing organization now has rot to the core and needs to be fully razed to the ground and rebuilt or replaced with a different organization. Any continuation of any existing project or individual’s employment there is the equivalent of trying to find the good people in the brownshirts. They’ll just lie until they get the chance to abuse and torture people to their heart’s content again.
And, frankly, the pitch of, “Join this group if you only want to have to enforce the law against immigrants” was always basically sanctioning a legal KKK.
Regular law enforcement can and should handle the border.
There is a middle ground between “open borders” and all this shit ICE is doing now. Customs and immigration laws must be enforced, we dint have to do it the way ICE does it.