From NYTimes: Agents Seek to Dissolve ICE in Immigration Policy Backlash

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[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/us/politics/ice-immigration-eliminate-agency.html|

June 28, 2018

WASHINGTON — At least 19 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators are seeking to dissolve the agency, concerned that the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal migrants has limited their ability to pursue national security threats, child pornography and transnational crime.

Question: Who benefits from ICE not being able to focus on national security threats, child pornography, and transnational crime? We all know the answer to that.

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1. Yup. This is the truth, but isn't that how the Repubs have

Always removed a policy or dept of value to humanity?

They underfund or disrupt its practice and then claim it must be ended & 'privatized' in order to clean up the dept in 'dissaray'.

ICE has its serious rouge issues, BUT pay attention when the Repubs call for its dissolution. Who benefits & who does not.

I'm all for reorganizing ICE back to its original purpose.
My concern is also in noting what replaces the protections of those used in human & drug trafficking, and who benefits by removing the protections.

There's a deeper story to this than we're being shown.

Trump's horrific immigration policy blew up ICE.
Why?

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2. 19 of 26 Homeland Security Investigations offices support elimination of ICE

Trump’s tactic about the abolish ICE movement is to keep
invoking MS-13.

This should be a slam dunk for Democrats politically
because ICE’s anti-gang subagency — Homeland Security
Investigations — overwhelmingly supports abolishing ICE
as we know it. (link: https://www.courthousenews.com/
push-to-abolish-ice-takes-national-spotlight/) courthousenews
.com/push-to-abolis…

Link to tweet

Push to Abolish ICE Takes National Spotlight

June 29, 2018 ADAM KLASFELD

MANHATTAN (CN) – Special agents in charge of most field offices run by Homeland Security Investigations now support eliminating Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

HSI is one of two subagencies within the department known as ICE, created 15 years ago under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security.

Reacting to the recent executive order on immigration by President Donald Trump, federal agents representing 19 of the country’s 26 HSI field offices have written a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristen Nielsen that recommends dissolving ICE altogether and spinning off HSI and another subagency, Enforcement Removal Operations.

Though the letter is undated, it was first published Thursday by the Texas Tribune as a movement dubbed #AbolishICE becomes increasingly embraced by the mainstream.

More:
https://www.courthousenews.com/push-to-abolish-ice-takes-national-spotlight/

Link to letter:
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ICE-abolition.pdf

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3. While we're at it, I want to drop the word "Homeland" from any agency.

GW called it Homeland.

It had a Stasi recoil reaction to it then and it still does.
I despise that word as used in our US govt.

#AbolishHomelandToo

[Leghorn21]

4. Absolutely could not agree more, W. It's been making us cringe and choke for years on end now -

has been a repellent appellation since day one - AWFUL

Probably no name-changes in sight, but it never should have been used in the first damn place -

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5. Department of Homemade Security n/t