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ICE was created after September 11, 2001. It doesn't even operate "at the border", but inland. The border is protected by the United States Border Guard, Custom

ICE was created after September 11, 2001. It doesn't even operate "at the border", but inland. The border is protected by the United States Border Guard, Customs, and local police. The criticism of ICE isn't that they implement the law. It's how they use their power to (to use a recent example) implement forced sterilization of female prisoners: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/unwanted-hysterectomy-allegations-ice-georgia-immigration https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/unwanted-hys...

Rebelgecko 6y ago
>ICE was created after September 11, 2001. It doesn't even operate "at the border", but inland. The border is protected by the United States Border Guard, Customs, and local police. I'm not sure that that has much relevance to the above poster's beliefs. Even though ICE was created after 9/11, it's not like no one was doing immigration enforcement before them. ICE was just a re-org of existing agencies like the INS. In some circles, people don't even refer to ICE by its new name: Meet the new "la migra", same as the old one. If you're someone like the GP poster who believes that people shouldn't be in the US illegally, it's logical to support immigration enforcement of people past the border. ~40% of people who are in the US illegally didn't enter illegally. They came legally and overstayed their visas. There's really nothing that the CBP can do about that, unless they take on the INS's responsibilities.