‘The end game is tearing it up piece by piece’: Dems’ overhaul of ICE has begun

House Democrats are moving to gut Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the federal agency responsible for arresting and deporting illegal immigrants — amid a raging southern border crisis that has grown exponentially since President Biden took office. 

The House Appropriations Committee last week approved a plan to substantively makeover the portion of ICE that deals with illegal immigration, known as Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), along with changes to how federal law enforcement officers would handle migrants.  But progressive Democrats, some of whom called in 2018 for the outright abolishment of ICE, did not stop there.