• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    progressives who want it entirely dismantled with no replacement

    ICE was a post-9/11 invention of the Bush Administration. To believe we absolutely need a paramilitary dedicated to funneling millions of people into concentration camps on spurious allegations and threadbare charges, you need to have already ingested a ton of hysterical fascist slop.

    If you want to defend ICE’s existence, put up an argument for it’s continued function. Why do we need tens of thousands of armed thugs storming into cities and dragging people out of green card hearings by their hair?

    If we could fix those issues

    You’d still have a Gestapo full of armed reactionaries on the government payroll.

    What you’re talking about is akin to reforming the Army of the Confederacy or the Khmer Rouge.

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      3 days ago

      You’d still have a Gestapo full of armed reactionaries on the government payroll.

      Like a military or a federal law enforcement branch? I’m starting to think your problem isn’t with this administration but any in general.

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        3 days ago

        The US has had something of a history of rounding people up for indefinite imprisonment and murder through neglect.

        Might want to consider doing something about that, rather than punting the tools of genocide to the next administration.