Recent calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are simply preposterous! Media reports that ICE agents want to dismantle the agency are equally ridiculous.
Conservative and liberals must abandon the language of divisive politics
Roughly 9 months after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, President George W. Bush proposed creation of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE was established as one of the agencies with border security responsibility. Personnel from the U. S. Customs Service at the Department of Treasury and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the Department of Justice eventually became the heart of the new national security agency. Continue reading
