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Originally Posted by bad.bunny
Don't usually agree with you on many things, but I agree with this one. The whole "Abolishing ICE" idea is too extreme and can potentially harm the Democratic party.
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Originally Posted by Charolastra
What about the INS? Wasn't that basically the same thing?
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Yes and no. INS was a larger agency that used to encompass what is now USCIS, ICE, and at least one other agency that I am blanking on right now. So yes, INS had many of the functions that ICE now has.
ICE was born in 2003, and "Congress granted ICE a unique combination of civil and criminal authorities to better protect national security and public safety in answer to the tragic events on 9/11. Leveraging those authorities, ICE's primary mission is to promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration." (ice.gov)
Essentially undocumented immigrants were lumped together with terrorists, and an organization was creted to deal with us accordingly.
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