Rep. Delia Ramirez is expected to introduce a bill to abolish the Department of Homeland Security and eliminate all immigrant detention in the United States on Tuesday, the Illinois Democrat shared exclusively with The Intercept.
The Reimagining Safety Act would repeal “duplicative and overreaching terrorism laws,” according to the bill summary and text, and curtail the widespread surveillance state that emerged in the wake of 9/11 terror attacks.
It comes the day after agents from Homeland Security Investigations searched the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in what the Department of Justice has described as an opaque “federal criminal investigation.” HSI is a component of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the agency at the center of mounting concerns about the violent weaponization of DHS against immigrants and the Trump administration’s perceived political enemies.
The sweeping legislation faces long odds in Congress, but Ramirez argues that strictly limiting the government’s immigration enforcement apparatus is critical for public safety in the wake of yet another shooting by federal immigration agents.
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Abolish conservatism.
Abolishing it should be the minimum.
DHS has always been a dystopian reminder of the ruination of America that began with the response to 9/11. I never agreed to give up any freedom for their security theater. They just did all that shit to us.
You might not have. But Americans reelected Bush after all these awful post 9/11 policies. There was no appetite for an antiwar and anti surveillance state post 9/11. Americans aren’t all victims. They are just mostly sheep.
No party is more progressive than Democrats when they know their bills have absolutely no hope in hell of passing.
It’s not the party, though. There are progressive members of the party, and when they introduce bills like this, the rest of the Democrats cough uncomfortably, and sidle away quietly, leaving the brave progressive to bear the full brunt of the right-wing outrage machine. (See, for example, the Green New Deal.)
Would it not make more sense to bring it early next year though? Then it goes from a 0% chance of being enacted to a .05% chance
Get the buzz going now to force the issue when they can, because you can’t move the overton window without speaking out about it.
End the Patriot Act.
I think a live streamed execution of George W. Bush would be a good way to build back the patriotism after we destroy the Patriot Act. A legal execution of course after he is found guilty for his countless war crimes. Then we can do Clinton, Obama, Biden, and Trump.
Abolish the police state, don’t stop at DHS.
Gotta slowly reverse boil the frog - these are definitely great first steps and will hopefully warm the public up to demilitarizing, then defanging, then defunding/abolishing the police state.
Nope, unless they promise to immediately fix every problem they’re not worthy of supporting
/s
You forgot the part where you’re literally a fascist for even thinking that it would be better than no progress at all /s
Sadly, a lot of people on the left think this way
OMG someone on lemmy who understands that things don’t happen over night. I had heard such people existed but I seriously doubted it. The majority I run into think it could all be gone by next election cycle if we all voted for some fringe candidate with no hope of election.
Yeah I really don’t want to just jump into a sudden backlash that undoes every gain
It’s crazy how many people think we’ve always had DHS…
There are a lot of adults alive today who’ve had it their entire lives
Famously, anything that happened before I was born, is not relevant to my life.
Abolish the presidency
Abolish America.
I’m with her on this but it’s not going to happen
Won’t pass
