• Aljernon@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    The convenient thing is that “Abolish ICE” is valid whether you want closed borders, open borders, or no borders.

    The main predecessor to ICE was Immigration and Naturalization Service. Notice the difference in tone between Service and Enforcement? But even if you don’t don’t support immigration, ICE has morphed into a paramilitary secret police to do Trump’s bidding and has been attacking and deporting natural born citizens. If you only oppose “illegal” immigration, ICE has been targeting and deporting deporting people with all their paperwork in order.

    Literally the only two reasons to support keeping ICE is that you support fascism and/or White Supremacy

    • Gathorall@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Morphed? It was established to be a redundant paramilitary organization with less oversight and more jingoist blind loyalty than its predecessors or law enforcement in general. That it could be turned directly against Americans was an original design specification.