Democratic Party Official Position is to Abolish ICE

[DrDeth]

@JDYanYan

I think there is a strong consensus in the party that the people who have been running ICE and CBP need to be torn out of gov’t.

Sure, when a new Dem president comes in, all the appointed ICE positions will be fired. No problem with that. I am 100% behind that. Criminal investigations also.

The first step, in early 2027, after the Dems take Congress is to cut back it’s budget to Biden levels. Easy, peasy. New agents that ICE can no longer afford can go to Federal Corrections- same pay, and Corrections has a huge turnover- not a nice job.(Ahhh, too bad) Or perhaps some to Federal Protections- mostly security work- but still lateral. No doing a trump and trying to subvert the Civil Service. BUT- any bad agents are no longer out there in the field. Maybe, some can come back later, even. ICE budget under Biden IIRC was about $10B, now it is something like ten times that?

And then, rename and reorganize- why not?

@bump

Just as important, they need to make sure that it’s made very clear that they’re not actually proposing to do away with immigration or customs enforcement, just abolishment of the present-day organization that does it, named ICE.

Otherwise, we’ll end up with more of the “Defund the Police” nonsense where they (meaning everyone who repeated that dumb-ass slogan) just handed rhetorical ammunition to the Right.

Right, that is important.