Swalwell said the ongoing discussions he’s having with other Democrats would go further than that, making ICE funding contingent on first prohibiting masks.

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    ICE has a purpose but the existing organization now has rot to the core and needs to be fully razed to the ground and rebuilt or replaced with a different organization. Any continuation of any existing project or individual’s employment there is the equivalent of trying to find the good people in the brownshirts. They’ll just lie until they get the chance to abuse and torture people to their heart’s content again.

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      And, frankly, the pitch of, “Join this group if you only want to have to enforce the law against immigrants” was always basically sanctioning a legal KKK.

      Regular law enforcement can and should handle the border.