Mussolini Had His Blackshirts, Hitler Has the SS, and Trump Has ICE
Mussolini Had His Blackshirts, Hitler Has the SS, and Trump Has ICE
Mussolini Had His Blackshirts, Hitler Has the SS, and Trump Has ICE | Common Dreams
The existence of this profoundly unaccountable, overtly fascist military apparatus poses a structural danger to our democracy. This is why "Abolish ICE" is an extremely moderate position.
There are lots of reasons to dismantle ICE. There’s a functional argument: We do not need ICE to enforce immigration laws; the U.S. handled this just fine for 227 years prior to the creation of this specific agency. There’s a fiscal argument: ICE is now larger than every other federal law enforcement agency combined. It’s larger than the militaries of all but 15 countries in the world! It’s annual budget, $37.5 billion, could pay for the health insurance of every needy child in the country!
But the core reason for abolishing ICE is that it poses a structural threat to American democracy.