Democrats 'Press' DHS on ICE Oversight After Enabling Its Reign
The Hill reports Democrats are finally 'pressing' the Department of Homeland Security to reinstate oversight for ICE detention centers. This sudden concern for human rights within immigration facilities comes after years of budget approvals and policy endorsements that built the very carceral state they now, belatedly, find troubling. Remember the Obama-Biden years? DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson
vastly expanded family detention facilities, laying the groundwork for the conditions critics now highlight. This isn't oversight; it's a post-facto PR move. It’s almost touching, this eleventh-hour urgency. One might consider whether this 'pressing' is genuine reform or just theater to placate an increasingly agitated base, particularly after their quiet complicity allowed these very centers to
flourish with minimal scrutiny for so long. The systemic issues weren't born overnight; they were funded line item by line item, often with bipartisan shrugs, until 'now' became politically expedient.