What do you think about ICE?
I am going to answer this with a little story of that’s okay.
Back when I was a very young teenager I read an article in the New Yorker about the concentration camp like facilities the children of deported and in process immigrants and citizens were kept, about their lack of food and running water and soap, how they slept under constant surveillance and bright lights so they, how there were tons of these all over the country in undisclosed locations, how children were hurt and starving and alone. I talked about this incessantly. I think I would call this one of my first serious causes I read and talked about.
ICE has been raiding and kidnapping and killing people since 2003, for over two decades. People have been suffering. Children have been suffering. Families have been destroyed and people have been dying, afraid to go to school, work, medical appointments, for every person you hear about there are so many more that are hidden and hiding and terrified for their lives. People who have protested were seen as being extreme and it was a wild position to impose upon people committing human rights violations, I mean, the government said they could so everything they’re doing so it must be legal.
And then 2 white people were killed publicly.
Outrage, protests, every internet feed filled with rightful anger and solidarity, people talking about what we have been saying for years and years and years. Now it’s unthinkable. Now it’s unprecedented. Now we have to act. I get nothing short of enraged whenever I see people denouncing ICE. Now. In 2026. After these deaths. Not because they shouldn’t be talking about it, not because they shouldn’t be protesting, and standing up, and boycotting, doing everything in their power to help, but because they haven’t been. It didn’t matter what immigrants said, it didn’t matter what Black and indigenous people said, it didn’t matter what anyone said. It didn’t matter that they were being killed in broad daylight and disappearing, that children were being held in camps, the only thing that got anyone’s attention was when white people were killed.
I mean I already knew this, right? I don’t know why I’m surprised, but, I am so, so angry, to be proven right. There is really no conversation I can have with anyone about this. It wasn’t a secret. It was on the news, in your communities, all around you, and you, the collective you, not anon in specific, said nothing, and you did nothing, for years. I am upset and violently angry, and I haven’t lost a friend or family member. I don’t know anyone personally who lost anyone. I cannot imagine how spat in the face it feels for America to genuinely say your life only matters when white people’s are in danger too. That’s what it took. So what I think of ICE I think should be a given. I have never once thought there was one good thing about them, so it’s everyone else I’m disappointed in.
Unsurprisingly people have been miscarrying in ICE custody and incarceration, as well as targeting them ain raids and protests. Rehumanize International has a post about it here and here. Abolishing ICE is the only pro-life position, this is regardless of your thoughts about immigration or whatever else, no human being gets treated this way.
