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By Jamelle Bouie

Opinion Columnist

Eight years ago, I wrote an article for Slate arguing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was an out-of-control agency that had become a “sinister” and “draconian” force “harassing and detaining people who pose no threat to the United States or its citizens.” The American people, I contended, needed “an honest discussion about whether ICE can be effectively reformed or if it must be abolished and replaced by an agency that can carry out its mission in a more effective and humane way.”

Now, however, we are past the point of conversation. In the hands of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, ICE is a virtual secret........

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