And just who is responsible for ICE?

 

"Is Donald Trump responsible for ICE? No more than Obama or GW Bush was. How about Biden? He is responsible for the massive workload that ICE has right now. But Donald Trump will fix this mess. Even with the constant headwinds he receives, he, along with ICE, will fix this mess."

Quiz for the day. What is a four-letter word which is spelled out in three letters? ICE. My oh my, has that word (acronym) become like an invective. Here is the irony. Right now, ICE is now equated with Donald Trump. Donald Trump is responsible for ICE. No, not really. G.W. Bush and his Congress at the time is responsible for ICE. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was brough into existence in 2002 as part of the Homeland Security Act. After 9/11, the nation knew it needed this organization to help keep the nation secure.

Now, I am a simple man, and I understand simple things. If you live in this country in a legal status, ICE will never ever bother you. However, if you are a border jumper, or have overstayed your visa, or have fraudulent documents, it is within the charter of ICE to have you detained and removed. If you are an asylum seeker, there are correct ways to do that also. All ICE ever does, is act within its charter. If Congress does not like that charter anymore, they can pass a law to have ICE eliminated. But they won't.

Since ICE has been around for almost a quarter of a century now, why is ICE such a trip wire today? What's up? Not to get too political, but Joe Biden made the need for a strong ICE group very evident when he opened our borders wide to come one, come all. Suddenly, we had no clue as to who was in our country and for what purpose they came. Almost overnight, we were becoming like Europe, and that was not good. Not good at all.

Then came the election of 2024. Donald Trump promised to clean things up. Put Kristi Noem in as Homeland Security Secretary. Tom Homan as her chief enforcer. But now ICE, which was created to be a band of good guys, is vilified by the left. They are the bad guys for following their charter. Huh? But wait - if Joe Biden had kept our borders secure for four years, would ICE need to be so ubiquitous as it is today? Maybe, or maybe not.

Like I said earlier, I am a simple man. Fact one - ICE members carry law enforcement badges. They are cops (of sorts). Fact two - If you punch, kick, spit on, or interfere with a LEO, you will be in trouble. Go to jail trouble. Fact three - if you punch, kick, spit on, or interfere with and ICE agent, you will go to jail. It really is as simple as that.

Is Donald Trump responsible for ICE? No more than Obama or GW Bush was. How about Biden? He is responsible for the massive workload that ICE has right now. But Donald Trump will fix this mess. Even with the constant headwinds he receives, he, along with ICE, will fix this mess.