ICE is rotten to the core. Basically everyone who works for it is a corrupt, racist, bad cop, with no regard for the rule of law who lacks moral character.
Democrats in Congress should sponsor the Fire ICE Act. This would:
1. Immediately terminate the employment of every single employee and contractor working for ICE.
2. Permanently bar every former ICE employee from working for any federal government agency or any federal government contractor in any capacity, even as an unpaid volunteer or as prison labor.
3. Permanently bar every former ICE employee from receiving security clearances.
4. Permanently bar every former ICE employee from receiving federal financial aid for higher education.
5. Permanently bar every former ICE employee from eligibility for SBA loans.
6. Permanently bar every former ICE employee from serving as a sponsor for any immigrant.
7. Retroactively downgrade every former ICE employee who is a military veteran to dishonorably discharged status.
8. Permanently bar every former ICE employee from receiving federal farm aid.
9. Permanently bar every former ICE employee from receiving federal housing or disaster assistance, including FHA and VA loans.
10. Revoke all non-vested employee benefits of the ICE employee from any federal government employment.
11. Extend the statute of limitations for civil liability and criminal liability committed in connection with service as an ICE agent to 50 years.
12. Create a private cause of action, including minimum statutory damages of $50,000 and attorneys' fees, for any violation of federal law committed by an ICE agent while employed by ICE or a contractor for ICE. This would include any wrongful deportation and any detention made without probable cause. And, allow any vested retirement funds or homestead property to be used to satisfy any such judgment even if it would otherwise have been exempt from creditors. Make any such debts non-dischargeable in bankruptcy.
13. Bar all companies that provided deportation transportation services to ICE from all future government contracts.
14. Make all former ICE employees ineligible to serve on the board of any 501(c)(3) organization, or as an officer or paid employee of any such organization.
15. Revoke the visas of any ICE employee who is not a U.S. citizen.
16. Prohibit former ICE agents from owning or possessing firearms.
17. Bar former ICE officers from making new applications for federal disability benefits.
18. Prohibit federal civilian employees and federal government contractors hired in any law enforcement role from wearing masks, or enforcing the law in unmarked cars, subject to very narrow exceptions that are heavily reported upon, required all sorts of red tape, and are limited to circumstances that never include immigration enforcement.
19. Create a list of places like hospitals, court houses, churches, and immigration offices, where immigration enforcement is not allowed.
20. Allow any state or city to prohibit federal immigration enforcement from taking place in their jurisdiction, subject to very narrow exceptions for people convicted of serious felonies within the last five years.
21. End all grounds for denaturalization and punish people who secured U.S. citizenship by fraud with criminal penalties that do not revoke their U.S. citizenship.
22. Place former ICE agents at the bottom of the priority list to receive organ transplants, at at the end of the line for any Medicaid, Medicare, or VA medical benefit for which there is a waiting list.
23. Prohibit former ICE agents from receiving any honor or recognition from the federal government and revoke any honor or recognition that the former ICE agent was previously awarded by any federal government entity, military or civilian.
24. Deny former ICE agents any benefit of U.S. international child custody treaties.
25. Prohibit former ICE agents from notarizing any document used in the federal courts or submitted to a federal government agency.
26. Make former ICE agents ineligible for all federal licenses, including but not limited to, patent examiners, SEC licenses, BLM grazing permits, FCC licenses, interpreter qualifications, pilot's licenses, federal firearms dealer's licenses, and federal fishing or hunting licenses.
27. Prohibit former ICE agents from being buried in military cemeteries.
28. Prohibit former ICE agents from being granted patent or trademark applications.
29. Prohibit former ICE agents from serving as officers of any federally recognized employee unions.
30. Prohibit former ICE agents from attending any federal educational institutions.
31. Prohibit former ICE agents from making mining claims.
32. Impose a 50% excise tax on any vested, deferred compensation payable to former ICE agents on top of any other applicable taxes.
33. Enact a rebuttable presumption in any federal discrimination case that a former ICE agent intended to engage in illegal discrimination.
34. Prohibit former ICE agents from serving a registered lobbyists.
35. Require former ICE agents to disclose their employment with ICE to all future employers, in any commercial contract, in any campaign for public office, and prior to being issued a marriage license.
36. Make status as a former ICE agent an aggravating factor under the federal sentencing guidelines.
37. Prohibit former ICE agents from entering federal parks and federal landmarks.
38. Prohibit former ICE agents from serving as officers or directors of any publicly held company.
39. Prohibit former ICE agents from purchasing cyptocurrencies or selling crypocurrencies that were not owned prior to the enactment of the law.
40. Prohibit former ICE agents from obtaining any federal loan or bailout of any kind.
41. Disclose all internal ICE records and a list of all former ICE agents to the public on a publicly available database that disclosed all internal affairs information, all service information, and all contract information of former agents.
42. Immediately release everyone in ICE detention who isn't an undocumented immigrant convicted of a crime within the last five years that is a felony or worse. Transfer the rest to the federal Department of Corrections.
43. Ban all future private prison contracts of any kind.
44. Deny all de minimis tariff exemptions for former ICE agents.
45. Formally authorize private sector employers and state and local government employers to discriminate against former ICE agents.
46. Give cases in which former ICE agents are plaintiffs, the lowest scheduling priority in federal court.
47. Require disclosure of former ICE agent status in every lawsuit filed by a former ICE agent, and as part of the witness testimony of every former ICE agent in any federal court or federal administrative agency proceeding.
48. Prohibit former ICE agents from participating in clinical trials for new drugs and medical devices.
49. Prohibit former ICE agents from receiving any new federal tax credits.
50. Prohibit former ICE agents from serving as employees or unpaid volunteers in federal funded schools at any level.
If this bill is introduced as a bill in Congress, and secured enough co-sponsors in the House and Senate to have some credible chance of being seriously considered, it doesn't even matter if it passes.
It will still powerfully discourage people considering employment with ICE from doing so. Every if some provisions are subsequently invalidated by the courts and are severed from the larger bill, the uncertainty would seriously chill anyway from applying to work for it.
4 comments:
i love it
So if I was American and reading that, I would skim it and see nothing about border control and enforcing immigration law, and I would say to myself, does this guy just want open borders?
One could. But, in reality, I'm actually focused on the methods and institutional culture of ICE and on the need to regularized long term or otherwise worthy of protection undocumented people. A very large share of all undocumented or otherwise deportable immigrants in the U.S. have been here for 15 years or more, or are married to U.S. citizens. This administration is also deporting a lot of legal immigrants who shouldn't be deportable, sometimes by just ignoring the law, and sometimes by prematurely revoking visas for no legitimate reason. A recent emergency order from SCOTUS just makes it worse.
OK, but if I was in your position, I would want the title of my act to be something like Restoration of Sane and Humane Immigration Enforcement. (I'm sure that with effort the title can be made a little snappier, if you miss the simplicity of "Fire ICE".) The Wikipedia article on the Abolish ICE movement claims that Customs and Border Protection is separate from ICE and can perform those necessary functions. If so, in my opinion, it still needs to be spelt out somewhere in the Act.
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