Despite Record Abuses, Massa Media Insists that ICE Serves an Important Function: the Atlantic, Bloomberg, USA Today, WSJ, etc, PropAgendize that ‘Things Will be Worse w/o the Uncontrollable Agency’

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

Propagenda – propaganda developed and directed to a particular audience as a means of predictive programming for accepting someone’s agenda as their very own. (See: $pinfidels, Predictive Programming & Coin-Operated)

From [FAIR] In a few short years, “Abolish ICE” has gone from a position considered far too radical (PBS, 8/27/26) to receiving serious consideration from the Democratic National Committee (Politico, 8/22/26).

Recent articles in the Atlantic, Bloomberg and USA Today argue that abolishing ICE will result in worse outcomes for immigrants, and even debating the idea would make Democrats more vulnerable to attacks from Republicans and alienate centrist voters. They insist that–despite its record of abuses (ACLU, 7/16/26)–ICE still serves an important function.

Worse outcomes for immigrants

In the past eight months, three immigrants died while detained at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. The deaths of Jean Wilson Brutus, Jose Chajon-Raxon and Edwin Lopez-Cornejo have invigorated calls to shut down the detention center by activists and government officials alike.

In his article “The Problem With Shutting Down ICE in Blue States” (Atlantic, 7/26/26), Nick Miroff argued that the demand to shut down Delaney Hall is misguided. He quoted three people in the article, all of whom have professionally collaborated with ICE at some point in their careers. One of them was former senior ICE attorney John Gihon:

ICE is going to find the bed space…. A lot of time, it’s going to be farther away from a blue state, and farther away from friendly federal courts, in a place with terrible conditions.

The problem with this argument is that ICE already uses relocation to create worse judicial outcomes for immigrants. In June (Molino Informativo, 6/15/26), I reported on the case of Aurelio Cornejo Serrano, a young Brooklyn resident with legal residency who was illegally detained by ICE. He was held at Delaney for a week before being transferred to Texas and then Mississippi, where he was detained for several months despite his legal status.

Silky Shah, executive director of the Detention Watch Network, confirmed this trend in a recent interview with FAIR: “ICE has been transferring people from detention center to detention center without any rhyme or reason since its inception.” Shah also disputed the claim that the closure of Delaney Hall would result in a worse situation for immigrants in the region: “There is a correlation between detention center capacity and [local] arrests.” [MORE]