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because they will lock them upin cages.

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it help some kids stay in the us

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i really wasnt paying attention on the last one.

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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals DACA is a United States immigration policy that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States.

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Estan quitando personas que estan ayudando al mundo.

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they are taking away people that are helping the world be better

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kids get lock up and and the tereted them bad

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they locked them up in a side cage and treated them like they werent human beings

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yeah it was cus they helped built stuff

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because they are taking away

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because they will locked them in side cage

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it help children to stay in USA

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They are so horrible they lock kids in cages and they treat Mexicans like there not human beings.

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because they will locke them in cage

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They let people have there rights and get whet they need to live

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They let you stay in the US to help You or you're family.

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In 2002, the George W. Bush administration consolidated all immigration enforcement agencies under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the largest restructuring of the U.S. government since the creation of the Department of Defense, under the narrative of his "war on terror." Twenty-two federal agencies, including all immigration agencies, were placed under DHS jurisdiction.

The primary function of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under its Enforcement and Removal Operations has been to identify, detain, arrest and deport all unauthorized migrants, immigrants and refugees that cannot prove lawful status within the U.S. The central issue for many in the migrant rights movement has been the question of lawful status in the context of a shifting national security police state that criminalizes migrant workers; a far departure from the administrative violations previously considered under U.S. immigration policy for those without "status."

Related: ICE provides vital service for Americans

Early in its creation, ICE used questionable tactics, functioning as a secretive police force; entering a community in unmarked vehicles brandishing a federal agent badge or jacket and taking people away in unmarked vehicles with no license plates. This practice continues to this date. The scenes have been effectively viewed as kidnappings as families targeted were not informed of what agency was carrying out the detention. Today, while we do know the name of the agency, locating a person in ICE detention and ensuring meaningful legal consul, prior to a removal proceeding, remains a serious challenge.

Communities have grown far too accustomed to seeing early morning or late evening dragnets carried out when most people are either getting ready for work or getting ready for bed, instilling a sense of persecution and generalized fear within large segments of migrant communities. The persecution of workers is highlighted when agents carry out large-scale workplaces raids, and underscores the function of ICE as an anti-worker police force that function against the interest of working people.

The use of unmarked vehicles added a Gestapo-like tactic of secrecy with many families unaware of the whereabouts of their loved ones. The proceeding process of holding someone for ransom, also known as bond, economically cripples many working families and adds a disastrous impact on people's ability to defend their case in immigration proceedings, especially considering the cost of immigration lawyers. The destruction of the family unit as a matter of state policy is a reflection of the violence this institution is willing to carry out in the name of "law and order."

The psychological trauma - the shame it is meant to inflict on working people, to endure an arrest in front of children, to be taken from their homes, and to shift the burden of raising a family onto the shoulders of eldest children often left to fend for themselves - is a crime all onto itself.

The grotesque correlation between immigration enforcement and the use of for-profit prisons or detention centers adds insult to injury. There is a direct correlation between the laws that criminalize migration and the growth of private prison expansion and use. The same people who were once legislators at the state and federal level, who used the legislative process to manufacture a for-profit prison industry, are some of the same corporate investors who today operate or work for private prison corporations. The exorbitant cost of detention, and the lack of transparency in instances of abuse, has led to numerous people dying in ICE custody.

The most recent atrocity of forced family separation that is taking place throughout the borderlands as part of the zero tolerance policies of the current administration accentuates the cruel and illegal treatment of children at the hands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection. The use of ICE as an instrument of fear in order to deter future migrant flows or as a deterrent against asylum seekers amounts to international crimes against the right of children.

The level of carelessness revealed in recent court proceedings - where we learned that there are children who have been separated from their parents who the government either deported without their children or who are unable to locate their parents in detention - is evidence that this agency has reached its limits as a useful or meaningful agency in the interest of the public good.

When an agency or government entity is destructive to the pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it is up to the people to reform or abolish it. It is the view of the American Friends Service Committee that it is time to abolish this cruel and inhumane agency to stop it from destroying the nucleus of our society, and it is time to ensure all families are able to live without the constant fear of family separation.
Prado is program coordinator, U.S.-Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee.

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Commentary: Why ICE agency should be abolished

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In 2002, the George W. Bush administration consolidated all immigration enforcement agencies under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the largest restructuring of the U.S. government since the creation of the Department of Defense, under the narrative of his "war on terror." Twenty-two federal agencies, including all immigration agencies, were placed under DHS jurisdiction.

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Policy to allow young unauthorized immigrants who are low enforcement priorities to remain in the country with temporary lawful status.

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they help people in need and give them a new life

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Me hizo sentir enojada por que ellos hicieron demasiado.

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allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States after being brought to the country as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit in

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it was not fair

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i think that they should all help them

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Its super sad and it hurts me because what if one of my teachers did that.

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it make me sad  because they juge kid for no rasone

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No it was not fair at all and it included stereotypes because there where saying they where criminals but they just came for whatever reason and to get a new life

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no the 187 was not fair because they did so much

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yeah

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it make me mad and sad because they did a lot

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this makes me sad because they deserve way better and things like that still happen.

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it makes me mad because they did a lot they built things like skyscrapers and it hard for them and they try to make a lot of money for there family back in Mexico

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Creo que deberian ayudar a las peronas a ser tratadas con respeto.

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yes because they should help people.

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It makes me fell bad because it is sad

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i think they america should help to do right

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yes, because they did a lot of bad things and i think that they should be cared more

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I do think they should help people so they wont get hurt and they can be treated respectfully.

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I think that America needs to help them and do more of what's right because they did a lot of bad things and there the reason they all moved here in the first place

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i tink they should because this was there stuff 1 st

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i feel bad cause it still happens to this day.

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This makes me feel bas but also mad cause people shouldnt get treated horrible and it still happen till this day

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They made me feel horrible and they make me mad and its crazy that it still happens to this day.

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People should not be treated bad.

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they make me mad because for what we did and the things we built  

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they make me mad because for what we did and the things we built  

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it make me feel sad mad because how the was geting treated

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make me feel bad because they should not be treated like that

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I feel bad for them because a little kid got taked from her mom and they loss all tnere rights

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These pictures make me feel bad because America mad a lot of trouble and did a lot of bad things for no reason