We have allowed these facilities since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 under George W Bush. Reporters and politicians were not allowed into ICE facilities apart from the rare instance of a planned visit which allowed ICE to sanitize the limited areas reporters were allowed to see. If you There have been thousands upon thousands of complaints of the most horrendous of human rights abuses including forced sterilization of women, yet when we moved to abolish ICE in 2018 you and the Democratic Party said that was too extreme and they just needed to be "reformed." So once again political expediency and the apologists for an moral and rudderless party put us all in a compromising position. We were saying this 10 years ago but establishment figures like you would not listen. And many Democrats lionized ICE and voted to honor them for their service. barryjkaufmando.substac…