Monday, January 26, 2026

This Year’s First Big Stupid Idea: “Retrain ICE”

One of the consequences of covering American politics is that it forces you to have frequent close encounters with some of the dumbest people alive and their terrible ideas. Cutting taxes on wealthy people will eventually enrich the middle class. Invading and occupying Iraq will spread democracy throughout the Middle East. Michael Bloomberg should be president. The list goes on. Anyway, here's the latest, greatest hit from the terminally stupid: We can fix ICE by retraining them.

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The salient fact is this: What most of us see in ICE are people who are not fit to serve in any governmental capacity, many of whom should probably be in jail for serial violations of citizens' constitutional rights and lawless corporal violence on the residents of major American cities. If you want sane and effective immigration enforcement that doesn't shame the nation on a daily basis"well, ICE is standing in the way of that. They are a force for misrule. I'm not going to entertain the stupid notion that any of ICE's current workforce can be meaningfully reeducated, and neither should you. It's like suggesting a rabid dog can be retrained.

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"ICE misrule isn't happening because someone skipped a meeting during their onboarding process," Linkins points out.

This is a deeply ingrained and incurable corruption"not that anyone at ICE wants to be "cured." ICE agents already receive comprehensive training, which they comprehensively ignore. In the latest instance, we've learned from a whistleblower that agents have claimed the right to break into homes without a judicial warrant, directly countermanding their vaunted legal training. No one can or should trust a retrained version of this agency. A root-and-branch teardown is in order. Mass firings are in order (I guess the leakers and whistleblowers can stay in some capacity). The clawback of billions of dollars is in order. Damnation, in every sense of the word, is in order.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-01-26 06:21 AM

ABOLISH ICE

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-26 08:15 AM

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