The Case for Open Borders

by John Washington

Abolition of ICE’s immigration-enforcement duties, and the assignment of all ICE agents to their other tasks—such as stopping child pornography—would be a much better use of agents’ time and public resources. The proposal to sever ICE’s immigration-enforcement duties from the rest of the work has been repeatedly made by ICE agents themselves, as the agents working in the investigative units don’t like the politicization or stigma its immigration work brings them: they say their jobs are harder because people don’t trust them. As it turns out, you run a reputation when you’re known for stalking parents as they drop their kids off at school, shackling women during childbirth, or staging mass arrests of people doing the honest work of building your homes, laying your roads, cooking your eggs, or butchering your meat.