Anonymous Sep 13, 2018 at 11:00 am

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No one pays attention to anything other than the headline when it comes to this issue.

The whole abolish ICE thing isn't, at least among the people who read beyond headlines, about no longer enforcing borders or illegal residents. ICE is a relatively new organization that is doing a middling job of what they spun off to focus on, no better than when enforcement resided with the respective federal and state agencies that formally oversaw those responsibilities.It is, at its core, a movement targeted at reducing waste propped up by a name that lends to a hashtag that instigates dumb internet debates.

But I wrote longer than a headline so it probably didn't get read.

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ICE was created after 9/11 (in March 2003 to be exact).

Of course there was an organization responsible for managing immigration in the United States, it was called INS or the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The INS was originally a part of the Department of Labor and later a part of the Department of Justice. Now there are, I believe, 4 agencies that handle immigration in the United States and ICE is only one of them.

After 9/11, ICE and all of the agencies and legislation created in response, engaged in extreme "government overreach" and violation of civil rights of both citizens and non-citizens alike (which interestingly enough does not seem to bother any of the conservatives deeply concerned about so-called "government overreach" in so many other ways).

People believe ICE needs to be abolished because ICE engages in human rights violations and abuses its power. These problems have increased exponentially under Donald Trump and hisa agenda to close the borders and build a wall. It is a militarized faction of immigration "enforcement" encourage and allowed to use terrorism against immigrants (legal and without legal status) and anyone seeking asylum in the United States (which is not a crime and all of these people are protected by our own Constitution and International law).

ICE should be abolished for the crimes they have committed of stealing and trafficking children and using terrorism to make their parents leave the country.
ICE should be abolished for refusing to protect people who are being harmed in their country of origin (for whatever reason).
ICE should be abolished because it is using schools and their staff to report children and their families if they believe their parents are not here legally (that is not their job and it also a violation of United States law with regard to the education rights' of all children in this country regardless of status).
ICE should be abolished because they are abusing, raping, and killing people - things they are not allowed to do but they are getting away with doing under Trump and his administration.
ICE should be abolished because they are not keeping records (which is one reason so many children have not been reunited with their parents as we near 2 months after the federal government was ordered to have them reunited) and records they do have they are destroying, which as a government agency is a violation of protocol and a federal crime.

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Hey, Buttholes. This is I Anonymous and not where you go to fill your personal identity holes by patting yourselves on the backs for being such politically aware and progressive thinking people.


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