Democrats are going to try and reform ICE in the coming weeks, as they have a two week CR on DHS funding to try and hammer out some guardrails for the increasingly lawless agency.
Some of these suggestions are well and good, but I think one thing they HAVE to demand is that Border Patrol returns to the border.
The "Border" is arguably the one issue that Trump still has positive approval ratings, as crossings have indeed decreased. Still, Alex Pretti was shot by two BP agents, not "ICE" agents. We have largely conflated the two for ease, but Border Patrol is really where the worst, trigger happy assholes reside. Long time ICE agents don't want to ride with them, because they are the ones most likely to pull their service weapon. They are routinely arrested for various violent crimes like spousal abuse.
The quickest way to both de-escalate what's happening in places like Minneapolis and deprive the purges of needed manpower is to deny Border Patrol from operating more than 15 miles from the actual border.
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