The thing to remember is that while ICE has always been like this, ICE has not always been around. It is not even 25 years old. We don't need it. We never did. - ThreadSky

ragnell.bsky.social • 9 hours ago

The thing to remember is that while ICE has always been like this, ICE has not always been around. It is not even 25 years old. We don't need it. We never did.

Reposted from Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow

My fear is that people will start to get numb to these stories and tune out, or say, “Well, ICE has always been like this, it must be fine.”

It’s not fine. It’s abominable. And it’s terrifying.

#AbolishICE

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phostetlerart.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I remember an NPR interview with an ICE agent, after he rescued some border crossers in the desert, took them inside, and gave them sandwiches. Then he said, “This is not the job I signed up for.”

What job did you sign up for? Jumping sideways while firing twin pistols at drug kingpins?

iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•5 hours ago

cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The thing to know about ICE is that it wasn't brought into being because "we" needed it. It was brought into being because the people who rule over us needed it. And they're not interested in asking us what we need, much less giving us what we need.

bsattva.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The FBI and the CIA were so bad at talking to eachother that congress created a whole new cabinet level department costing BILLIONS and yet somehow they still ate t in the same department and still don’t talk. LOL

kiyara.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I am trying to cope with the debilitating exhaustion that comes from the fact that I have been warning people about this shit the whole time and everyone dismissed me as an oversensitive teen.

Now everyone is acting shocked that (white) people are getting disappeared, as if it hadn't been the point

hairlessingaza.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Evergreen: https://medium.com/deportation-nation/hello-its-your-friendly-neighborhood-immigration-attorney-here-to-help-you-spread-the-word-on-why-d0ce2e23d046

notintheface.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Arctic Monkeys and The 1975 have been around longer than ICE.

porchcryptid.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I remember when Obama was pres and Congress cut ICE's administrative budget because big government. So we can't send a guy a letter in the mail telling him his Visa's expired, please show up on this date with these forms to recertify, but we can hire guys to go arrest him.

liminalatlaw.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Instead of ICE, what we needed was a POTUS who read his daily briefings, asked questions, then took action.

prrsignal.bsky.social•28 minutes ago

In the 90's it was called INS and you could literally ring them up and get people deported.

Migrant workers knew they were only here until caught so it was all part of the game.

richservo.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Correct. We only hear about them when a republican is in office.

therealkeninmn.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The Immigration and Naturalization Service, which was created in 1933, was split into three agencies and rebranded as part of the creation of Department of Homeland Security in 2003. So, for all intents and purposes, it's function has been around for 92 years...

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