Abolish ICE.

You promised that you would stand firm in demanding meaningful reforms to ICE’s murderous, brutalizing, unlawful police practices. This is the moment of truth. Please finally show your courage and principle. Demonstrate leadership that places the safety and liberty of your constituents above all else, rather than calibrating every action with the cowardly political algorithm, “Will this help or hurt my chances of re-election?” Our nation is in a moment of crisis. We have no need of politicians. We need patriots and heroes, men and women of their word who will defend the Constitution, as they promised. In this moment, “bi-partisanship” is a code-word for “capitulation.” There is nothing bipartisan about allowing ICE to continue public executions. There is nothing bipartisan about allowing roving gangs of masked men with automatic rifles and grenade launchers to terrorize peaceful residents of cities and states whose only crime was to vote against Donald Trump in 2024. There is nothing bipartisan about jailing children. The current proposals for “reforms” floated by Democrats amount to nothing more than asking ICE to observe minimum standards of conduct that apply to every law enforcement agency in America. That is not reform. That is begging ICE to behave—“Pretty please, with a cherry on top.” The truth is that ICE is so broken, so corrupt, that it must be disbanded and a new agency must be created to replace it. It must be defunded, its ranks cleared of officers caught on tape beating, shooting, tear-gassing, punching, and mocking Americans who are going about their daily lives or exercising their First Amendment rights. The half-measures and window-dressing currently proposed by Chuck Schumer are an insult to the memories of those killed and brutalized by ICE. They are the rock-bottom, bare minimum first steps toward meaningful reform. Members of ICE will continue their brutal terror even with body cameras and without masks. They don’t care if they are filmed committing illegal acts—because they have been told Trump will protect them, and they have been recruited precisely because they don’t care. A long-term shutdown of DHS will be hard. It will result in travel delays, delay in paying the US military, and delay in FEMA payouts. So, you and the rest of the congressional Democrats need to steel yourselves. We will either live in a society with a roving paramilitary that is executing citizens on the streets or not. It is up to *you.* Please, do the right thing—something that will be hard, possibly unpopular, and may affect your fundraising. You all gave away most of your leverage by allowing the five appropriations bills to pass without a fight. You told us you would extract concessions when the DHS bill is put to a vote. This is your moment of truth. Don’t tell us who you are or what you believe. Show us.