General Discussion

From Trump on down to everyone he appointed. This administration can't be trusted to do the right thing.

Enforcing immigration and customs laws is a legitimate function of government, whatever it may be called or under which agency it falls. The sprawling Dept of Homeland Security was an overreaction to 9/11 that was more conducive to implementing a surveillance police state threatening the rights of citizens, than protecting us.

There has to be a better way for collaboration between necessary investigative and enforcement agencies. There really are foreign adversaries and criminal organizations which pose a real threat. It would be a mistake to eliminate all government functions that deal with such threats.

But, right now, with ICE doing the bidding of a fascist regime that is a greater threat to our Constitutional democracy than any foreign adversary, the American people would be safer if ICE was abolished altogether than expect it to be properly reformed while it in the hands of this fascist regime.

So much damage done by this maladministration will have to be rebuilt, but it appears DHS needs to be deconstructed and thoroughly reevaluated with its functions less prone to politicization and abuse by authority.