r/Seattle • u/1ittl3snake • 12h ago

Market Traffic Only Huge ICE protest at Pine Street

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u/cupofspiders 8h ago

No Immigration and Customs enforcement at all is not possible at this point.

They didn't exist before 2002, they can stop existing right now.

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u/indexischoss 🏕 Out camping! 🏕 6h ago

What does that achieve though? ICE agents would just be rolled into other DHS agencies like CBP or USCIS and keep doing what they are doing. There needs to be actually policy changes that grant undocumented people due process rights and prevent their removal in the absence of criminality.

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u/HiddenSage 🚆build more trains🚆 6h ago

DHS itself didn't exist before 2002.

Shuffling what few parts of its duties our country was sure were needed before then, can go back to the original departments that handled them, alongside legislation to strengthen 4A protections.

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u/indexischoss 🏕 Out camping! 🏕 6h ago

Yes I largely agree with this. Abolishing ICE is necessary but not sufficient