Abolish ICE? Absolutely -- and DHS too

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4. The horror show started with the formation of DHS in 2002 and the vast expansion of private immigration prisons.

Pulling the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) into the 2002 mega-security agency that was to be known as DHS served as a declaration that immigrants posed a risk to national security. The dissolved INS was divided into three agencies within DHS: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). And with the separation, there was a corresponding diminution of benefits and services (USCIS) and robust expansion of enforcement (ICE and CBP).

That was the first step down an immoral and deeply Un-American path.

And labeling the new agency the "Homeland" Security Agency was a declaration that America was, not a Nation founded on shared ideas, but rather an ethnic homeland -- specifically, a WHITE ethnic homeland.

What could possibly go wrong?

Tom Barry, who founded the IRC (International Relations Center) in 1979 and then joined the Center for International Policy as the TransBorder Project Director in 2007, wrote an excellent 2009 article on our destructive immigration policies and the exponential growth of immigration prisons: A Death in Texas: Where profits, poverty, and immigration converge.

Things were already intolerable then. I still have trouble fathoming the magnitude of the hell we are descending into.