Consider the reign of terror in Minnesota in the last few weeks:

Since early January, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement expanded its operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., federal officers have: killed Renee Good, a white middle-class mother; menaced a pregnant immigration lawyer in her firm’s parking lot; detained numerous U.S. citizens, including one who was dragged out of his house in his underwear; smashed in the windows of cars and detained their occupants, including a U.S. citizen who was on her way to a medical appointment at a traumatic brain injury center; set off crowd-control grenades and a tear gas container next to a car that contained six children, including a 6-month-old; swept an airport, demanding to see people’s papers and arresting more than a dozen people who were working there; detained a 5-year-old. And now they have killed another U.S. citizen, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an I.C.U. nurse with no criminal record. It seems he was white. The agents had him down on the ground, subdued, before they apparently fired at least 10 shots at point-blank range.

The good news is the usually somnolent Senate minority leader, Senator Schumer from New York, has vowed not to support the government funding package, unless the funding for the Department of Homeland “Security” [sic] and ICE is removed. As a criminal defense lawyer in New Yorkputs it:

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was never one of the elite federal groups. It was the TSA of federal agencies, unlike the FBI, Secret Service or Postal Inspectors, who were highly regarded whether they deserved it or not. But ICE? It was not where the best and brightest wanted to work. Accordingly, it was staffed by the dregs of federal law enforcement, the people no other agency would take. 

It is time to abolish ICE. I hope the Democrats hold the line on funding. The bigger this goon force gets, the greater the danger to everyone.