Both Parties Fund ICE

The difference is not values. It is how openly the system operates.

The only question that matters

After Renée Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Democratic leaders condemned the shooting, but avoided the one lever that changes agency behavior: funding. Reporting on the leadership response makes the pattern clear: strong statements, no commitment to use appropriations to rein ICE in.

If Democrats say ICE is out of control, then the next step is obvious. Condition the money. Cut the money. Force the fight. If they refuse to do that, then the outrage is not a strategy. It is a performance.

Deportation did not start with Trump

A lot of Americans talk like mass deportation is a Trump invention. It is not. The deportation machine has been funded and used under both parties for years. DHS publishes annual enforcement statistics in its Yearbook, and ICE publishes annual reports with removal totals.

To keep compar…