warren's approach to ice is the perfect example of why she's a textbook "progressive", and not at all a socialist, and why i cannot and will not support her candidacy in good faith.

what she's calling for is a reorganization of the service, which is rooted in the ideological positioning that the problem is not the system itself but the people within it. it's the old "bad apples" argument. so, she wants to reform the system, presumably so that it is better able to carry out it's initial purpose. this is the old "we've lost our way" canard.

ice has not lost it's way, and it's not being tarnished by a couple of bad apples. ice operates as a human resources arm of industry, and is doing exactly what the people that created it intended for it to always do. there is consequently no future in reforming it, unless you're just trying to reduce operating costs.

but, abolishing ice is not even enough, as it will be recreated again if the conditions which have allowed for it's existence - namely the lax enforcement of labour laws - are not addressed. abolition is a first step. but, an actual policy - a plan that is actually worth pursuing - would be centered around ensuring that all workers, everywhere, are entitled to living wages and proper protections, which means converting the immigration police into a labour enforcement unit. if america spent half of what it spends on policing immigration on policing employers, it wouldn't have an immigration problem. that would be actually taking control of the state for the benefit of the people; that would be an actual plan.

you won't get that from a "progressive" that fundamentally wishes to keep the status quo in place; you will need to support the socialist.