Can ICE Be Abolished Now?
Is there a way that that slogan could be fulfilled and yet the functions of the system that are still required, or the pieces of what ICE now does that are still necessary, could be preserved.
Key points
- In the first episode of Autocracy in America ’s fourth season, Scott Shuchart, a former homeland-security lawyer, talks about what the new Democratic Congress can do in the next two years to reform DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whether ICE should continue to exist at all, and what a humane—and legal—U.S.
- Let’s remember that over the past 18 months, massive numbers of federal agents representing ICE invaded American cities against the wishes of local government and local police.
- Scott Shuchart is a former DHS official who resigned in 2018 and has been following the evolution of ICE and its goals.
If you were to imagine a better running system—is there a world in which we can abolish ICE?
I asked him to talk about what Congress can do now.
Additional details
- When everybody talks about ICE, what they’re talking about is the group called Enforcement and Removal Operations, ERO.
- In the space of just a few weeks in January, ICE officers shot and killed two citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, becomes much more important and much more difficult.
- But ICE continued, and so did accidental deaths, injuries, and disruptions to working people’s lives.
- Applebaum: Scott, the slogan “Abolish ICE” has become very popular among Democrats, and no wonder.
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