Important point. "Abolish ICE" doesn't mean 'eliminate immigration controls'; it means 'ICE is institutionally rotten, its incentives are perverse — and so we have to tear it down and build an agency that's less like a Chekhov's gun in a play about a would-be tyrant.'
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we need to think of 'abolishing ICE' as like 'abolishing the Wehrmacht.' Germany still needed an army. Americans will still want some kind of immigration and border authorities. But abolishing the culture, structures, and power-holders of a utterly corrupted and brutal system is important.
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And enforcement has never complied with due process. (eg "immigration judges" are just DoJ lawyers.)
You definitely can't convince the public that your slogan moderate than it sounds when its creators can reasonably take out an NYT op-ed saying "Yes, We Mean Abolish Immigration Enforcement"