A key first step in restoring the executive branch of the U.S. government to what was supposed to be a branch of government for executing the will of Congress would be to abolish an agency that, unlike various agencies recently abolished or cut back, does only evil.

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) kidnaps people off the street with no warrants, and no identification, and ships them to a foreign prison. In recent days, ICE smashed a couple's car window and dragged them out of the car, snatched people from a courthouse, burst into a house in the middle of the night and forced the inhabitants outside while confiscating their possessions, snatched a man from a gas station and left his children behind in his truck, and held a young girl's face to the ground as she screamed.

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The Case Against ICE

•          ICE was created in 2003 as part of a shameful and disastrous "war on terror," at which time warrantless spying, arrests, and "renditions" were widely deemed outrageous and shocking.

•          Less-outrageous behavior by ICE was sufficient to create outcries for its abolition several years ago, and in 2018 legislation in Congress to abolish it. Nothing has improved since, quite the reverse.

•          ICE primarily addresses nothing related to terrorism beyond kidnapping students who have advocated for peace, which has been redefined as "supporting terrorism."

•          Once people are grabbed by ICE, many of them have died in ICE prisons.

We do not need a federal agency to do lawless kidnappings. The United States is saturated with police departments to handle actual crimes. ICE serves primarily to generate fear.

The antidote is not yet more Democratic and Congressional inaction. The antidote is courage.