They weren’t created out of the blue. They’re the connection of two other federal agencies - naturalisation and customs service.
As you noticed, they were created at the time of Patriot Act, meaning they’ve been around for 25 years now. There weren’t any issues with them during Bush or Obama, were there? Or rather: there weren’t any more issues with them than there were with Border Patrol or ex-Customs Services, etc.
Basically, issues pop up whenever Trump’s in power. Because he has stupid policies. Like when Border Patrol was supposed to hire 60,000 agents within a couple of months to “strengthen border protection and stop smuggling from Mexico”. Lo and behold, they ended up hiring active cartel members and smuggling stats went through the roof. Which anybody with a semblance of a functioning brain expected to happen.
Now it’s the same exact situation - ICE received the order to kick out 1,000,000 “illegal immigrants” in 2025. For context on how ridiculous this number is: deportations increased steadily during Biden admin, reaching 72,000 in FY 2022 and 143,000 in FY 2023. FY 2024 saw the highest single-year total with 271,484 deportations.
And now Trump wanted 1 million. Which meant, just as before with Border Patrol, that they had to basically hire anyone who wasn’t running away from their recruiters fast enough. And exactly the same thing as before happened, only this time it’s US not Mexican criminals being hired. All the Proud Boys and what not.
The existence of the formation is fine, every country on the planet has an equivalent agency, it’s Trump’s policy that’s fucking everything up - as is tradition.
ICE has always been fascist, they were created by the Patriot Act, which is “lawful”, and also a perfect tool for fascism.
Their creation made what is happening now inevitable.
They weren’t created out of the blue. They’re the connection of two other federal agencies - naturalisation and customs service.
As you noticed, they were created at the time of Patriot Act, meaning they’ve been around for 25 years now. There weren’t any issues with them during Bush or Obama, were there? Or rather: there weren’t any more issues with them than there were with Border Patrol or ex-Customs Services, etc.
Basically, issues pop up whenever Trump’s in power. Because he has stupid policies. Like when Border Patrol was supposed to hire 60,000 agents within a couple of months to “strengthen border protection and stop smuggling from Mexico”. Lo and behold, they ended up hiring active cartel members and smuggling stats went through the roof. Which anybody with a semblance of a functioning brain expected to happen.
Now it’s the same exact situation - ICE received the order to kick out 1,000,000 “illegal immigrants” in 2025. For context on how ridiculous this number is: deportations increased steadily during Biden admin, reaching 72,000 in FY 2022 and 143,000 in FY 2023. FY 2024 saw the highest single-year total with 271,484 deportations.
And now Trump wanted 1 million. Which meant, just as before with Border Patrol, that they had to basically hire anyone who wasn’t running away from their recruiters fast enough. And exactly the same thing as before happened, only this time it’s US not Mexican criminals being hired. All the Proud Boys and what not.
The existence of the formation is fine, every country on the planet has an equivalent agency, it’s Trump’s policy that’s fucking everything up - as is tradition.