As a TES thread poster, I can say that the disagreement with ICE comes down to their current methods. ICE can and should throw the illegals out of the country. Yet rolling up on a suburban street and grabbing an illegal off the sidewalk is not productive.
It has turned public perception of ICE into brutal thugs, turning simple arrests into national spectacles. And it seems like the administration is fine with that media attention. But is it the best use of time and resources? What is it, like 10% of DHS agents are in Minneapolis now? How many illegals are we detaining in Minneapolis per DHS agent? We should be mobilizing agents in the Southern border states, where millions of illegals live.
What have we gotten over the last few weeks in Minnesota? We may have gotten criminal scum out, but the American public only sees two Americans killed by government agents and children being detained and used as bait. We have a potential federal shutdown over ICE funding.
There is growing backlash to ICE and their current policies seem to further that backlash. I can foresee the ‘No borders’ leftists capitalizing on this and flooding the country even further. I want illegals out, but all I can see is the current ICE policies creating such a pendulum swing that will bring more illegals in.
