Mainstream Media 'Discovers' ICE is 'Beyond Reform,' 20 Years Late
The mainstream media is treating Rep. Shri Thanedar's call to dismantle ICE as a bold new idea. What they conveniently gloss over is that human rights organizations, legal experts, and countless affected families have been screaming this for years. ICE, born from the post-9/11 fear machine, has consistently operated with unchecked power, leading to widespread allegations of abuse, civil rights
violations, and a fundamentally broken immigration system that prioritizes detention over humanity. (One might wonder what took so long for this 'discovery.') Perhaps Thanedar is genuinely moved, or perhaps the political winds have shifted enough that acknowledging ICE's systemic failures is no longer career suicide. The fact remains, the 'revelation' that an agency responsible for separating
children from parents, operating deplorable detention centers, and deporting individuals without due process, is 'beyond reform' isn't news; it's a tragic, long-overdue admission. They frame it as a 'bold step,' we see a reluctant jog in the direction of basic decency, after ignoring the sirens for decades.