Poll: Voters oppose abolishing ICE

[raging moderate]

2. They think ICE is the border patrol, and the border patrol is ICE.

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Many Americans think that people who want to abolish ICE are trying to make the US borders be totally open. They think that abolishing ICE would mean abolishing national borders. There is a fundamental misunderstanding here, being fanned by right-wing propaganda sources. There are people who would support a more moderate border patrol acting with better discretion, self-control, and adherence to the US Constitution, if we can overwhelm the propaganda sources, to convince them that we do support some sort of control over our borders. I certainly do. I don't want the psychopaths who are chasing refugees to be able to pursue them across the border to murder them somewhere in the US. Actually, I can imagine that there could be a legitimate role for something like ICE, IF they were reined in considerably, restructured and retrained, and possibly with some changes in management and personnel. Maybe they could keep the name, if that would satisfy some of the loonies.