The Abolish ICE mantra has been embraced by people as diverse as Bill Kristol. I think Josh Marshall is right though that we need to think more generally about basically eliminating Homeland Security. DHS was a weird reaction to 9/11, as Democrats were looking for a way to "get tough" on terrorism without countenancing pogroms against Muslims in America. It was very much of the Liberal Organizational Flowchart school of technocracy.
The idea was to take a host of disparate agencies and house them in one place. There was always a slight fascist aesthetic to a lot of DHS, right down to the words "homeland security." The Boys gave the name Homelander to their fascist Superman. There has to be some form of border patrol, for instance. Democrats would be insane to embrace the Open Borders lunacy that some spouted in 2020. Housing Border Patrol in a different department would be the first step towards accountability and oversight. As we have seen with Trump, Miller and Noem, DHS was just ripe for the sort of abuses that they are visiting on American cities and citizens.
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