• osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
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    This is… Patently untrue unless we’re also going legislate a 100% open-doors immigration policy and global free trade agreements. Which, Ok, i could see a argument there, but is saying something very different than ‘The organization ICE is corrupt beyond recovery and is going to need its own Nuremberg after all of this is over, but they had a day job before they went full brownshirt and someone will need to be doing that job afterwards’ like this article is suggesting.

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      America didn’t have open-doors immigration before 2003 when ICE was established. Their day jobs were performed by other agencies that, notably, were not private militias of the president.

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      Whut?

      You do know ICE wasn’t created till 2003, right?

      What do you think happened before 2003?

      Do you think for the 200+ years that America existed without ICE that:

      we’re also going legislate a 100% open-doors immigration policy and global free trade agreements