Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (D-Illinois) has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
The wide-ranging legislation, dubbed the Reimagining Safety Act, would repeal the Homeland Security Act. Signed by President George W. Bush as part of his administration’s post-9/11 “war on terror,” the transformational bill created DHS and led to the establishment of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The bill would abolish DHS, CBP, and ICE — going further than the progressive call to abolish ICE. Other offices currently housed within the department, like Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Coast Guard, Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the customs functions of CBP would be broken off into different authorities.
“We know that DHS was intentionally established with an overbroad mission and unchecked power. The last two years have made it visible what so many communities have actually been saying for decades: That DHS, frankly, is the single greatest threat to our public safety today,” Ramirez said in a press conference previewing the legislation last month. “We must strip away every single tool they are using to terrorize us.”
In DHS’s place, Ramirez’s bill would create a cabinet-level “Department of Community Safety,” which would address community concerns ranging from gun violence to disaster relief, using a public health-based approach. All immigration detention centers would be shuttered.
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That’s actually cool. It definitely won’t pass but it’s cool performance
Will it pass? No. However, I think moves like this can help reframe abolishing ICE as a “compromise” position.
For me I will hold this over libs heads when they inevitably do take power back. “So you tried this when you had no hope of passing it, why don’t you pass it now that you could?” It’s just one more thing to show libs that their system isn’t working
Wow, actually kind of impressed. Not many dems care enough to entertain the theater anymore.
Representative introduces bill that would bring back the unicorn, esquilax, and carbuncle
unicorn, esquilax, and carbuncle
These are the US’s credit reporting agencies, right?
carbuncle
I did not need to learn this word. I can’t believe you’ve done this
As an English major, it is my job to know and use as many $10,000 words as possible
Just pure sesquipedalian loquaciousness
Carbuncle is your dad’s brother eating a whole loaf of bread
Esquilax is a fancy medicine to make you shit out your doodoo ass
Unicorn js when you have just one corn
It’s not a glowing rabbit???
That’s the one I was referencing, but yeah, it’s a medical thingy
mom’s brother loves bong rips
Uncles rock
I thought it was a Final Fantasy thing
Owie
What about Sylph and Bahamut?!
They don’t need any help from me
I think the moderate position on this is “If you work for ice you should kill yourself”. I’m glad she did this bill; abolition should be the compromise, abolition and prosecution is the ideal.
