ICE should be abolished

United States immigration policy and enforcement, and the people it reaches: visa and asylum rules, deportation, border operations and the status of those already living in the country. Legislated rarely and governed largely by executive action and litigation rather than statute.

Policing, prosecution and the agencies that carry them out, from patrol and arrest through detention and the courts. Covers oversight, accountability and the conduct of officers as much as crime itself, and the legal limits placed on the use of state force.

Departments, agencies and independent bodies of the United States federal government, covering their leadership, rulemaking, enforcement, budgets and the way they carry federal policy into practice. Where statute becomes regulation, and where most of what government actually does gets done.

Policing of United States borders, covering patrols, inspections, detention, deportation coordination and the use of barriers and surveillance technology. Carried out mainly by Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose tactics are a recurring subject of litigation.

Maine's 2026 U.S. Senate election pits Republican Susan Collins against Democratic former state Senate president Troy Jackson on November 3, 2026, for a sixth term. Senate control could hinge on the outcome, while abortion-rights groups have targeted Collins's 2018 vote confirming Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Federal immigration policy is facing dual controversies over a $20 million plan to equip officers with electric-shock gloves, alongside mounting public backlash after ICE detained the father of a U.S. Navy sailor while his son was deployed overseas.