Ice is a tool of illegality. It must be abolished | Zephyr Teachout

It’s no accident that Trump uses Ice and Customs and Border Protection as tools of unconstitutional behavior. It is unaccountable by design

The United States is in a legal and moral emergency, and lawyers have a special responsibility to speak up. Lawyers, as the protectors of the rule of law, must demand the end of indefinite family detention centers, must insist that all children get guaranteed legal representation, and should join the growing movement to abolish US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice).

It is not an accident that Donald Trump can use Ice and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as tools of unconstitutional illegal behavior: it is part of the structural flaw of the agencies themselves. Ice undermines what we aspire to be as Americans, and is an unaccountable and inhumane political tool, treating all immigrants as national security threats.

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