ICE

 ICE is an agency I have long had a problem with. I do not see why we demonize immigrants and feel some strange need to expel them from our country. However, under the current administration the organization has gone from being distasteful to being downright pure, unadulterated evil.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/us/chicago-apartment-ice-raid

ICE raided an apartment building in Chicago yesterday. They detained every single resident of the building. This includes US citizens. They say they're going after the most violent. They say they're going after the criminals and the undocumented immigrants. That is a lie, pure and simple. They are not targeting criminals. They are not targeting undocumented immigrants. They're not even targeting immigrants. They're arresting and detaining citizens. They're indiscriminately arresting people, detaining them in facilities that they're not even admitting are detainment centers--to deny access to members of Congress, who do have the right to visit ICE detainment centers to inspect the conditions there.

I want my opinion to be crystal clear on the matter. ICE is evil. To think that there are so many people who are willing to perform such evil acts of inhumanity truly wounds me to my core. That we have so many agents going around zip-tying children's hands together, separating children from their parents, and keeping them in inhumane conditions. 

The playbook of the authoritarian is quite simple. They want violence because that's how they gain and maintain power. They want chaos. They stir the pot, create contention, instigate violence, and then step in as the solution to the very problem they created. ICE is the agency to cause this chaos. They're creating widespread panic and fear in many communities, and this fear is very well justified. Families are torn apart, people are disappeared from their workplaces and from the streets and from their homes. In many cases, sufficient records are not kept and it's impossible to track who's been arrested and where they are now, or where they were from originally. With all of the outrageous things that ICE is doing, when members of the community are brave enough to protest, the protest is labeled as a riot and the national guard is brought in. This is rule by military might. It is not democracy. It is not the way a republic should function. It is chaotic, it is violent, and it is evil.