The name ICE, short for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is synonymous with the #AbolishICE movement that even reached Congress, with members calling to dismantle the agency. The “Abolish ICE” movement has been out of the daily media news cycle since the November elections with the focus now being on the wall, or lack thereof. Is the time now right to rethink ICE as a whole?

ICE is broken into two distinct organizations in one; the Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, and the Enforcement and Removal Operations, ERO. When in ICE, I spent time with all sides of the enforcement spectrum, at the border and in the interior.