Subject: Re: Trump's domestic army
IMHO, the Felon is poisoning ICE.

Yes. Further, I suspect ICE officers are also poisoning ICE. I haven't heard of mass resignations from ICE as their role has been expanded and detention quotas have been imposed. If there has been significant turnover, it hasn't made any news I can find. The little news I did find talked a bit about the difficulties in hiring new agents.

And that leads to:

The next POTUS should weed out the really bad agents

Is the culture at ICE one that rewards the bad agents (your "you have no rights" officers), basically turning the whole agency sour? I fear it may be. If so, ICE may need more than new leadership. It may need to be disbanded, just like the gestapo.

CBP may be suffering from the same issues. Just the initialisms - ICE and CBP - may be so damaged by the time the next POTUS takes office that the names can't be saved. All of DHS may need a broader reorganization. There are so many different agencies inside the department with police powers that it's easy to lose control of each little fiefdom in the Department.

I'm even slightly taken aback by the Department's name: Homeland security. It reminds me very much of things like the Fatherland and Motherland: names that put the country ahead of the individual. The most important part of this slightly crazy American Experiment is that the rights of the individual are raised and put ahead of the rights of the nation and state, with a few enumerated exceptions. So we don't protect the Mother/Father/Home land from the individual. We protect the individual from the government.

Right now, we're not doing a great job of that.

--Peter