Realistically what does the dhs even do? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to abolish them and give their authority and funding to the states?

The people who will fight this the hardest will be the long toothed democrats unfortunately

The whole position and power of the DHS needs to be reviewed and reworked. In most other countries, this is handled by the equivalent Department of the Interior. The department doesn't need to have it's own unchecked military force to get the job done.

DHS formed in the wake of 9/11 because federal agencies could not get their shit together and collaborate. Whether by design or rapid evolution, it became less of a coordinating agency between disparate federal intelligence agencies and more of a mysterious extra-judicial entity with a military arm. Oh and TSA. Let's not forget about humble ole' TSA.

This is your reminder that KGB meant (in Russian) basically the same thing as Department of Homeland Security.

Hands off the deep state lady

At this point, it's going to be neigh on impossible to do away with the DHS. Few have any idea of just how much stuff has been crammed into that department. Everything from law enforcement down to FEMA and even the fire trucks and boots your local fire department use.

That monster is huge.

Many of us remember the creation of DHS and we said then, and many experts also said then, that the department was going to be bad for Americans. In fact, it has been just as bad as we expected.

Does anyone actually feel safe because of TSA compared with previous airport security? I sure don't. We certainly got safety by having locked reinforced cockpit cabins. But the agents who are doing the scanners, they miss weapons all the time. And of course they don't get paid well so if they wanted to smuggle weapons in I'm sure they could do so easily enough.

And that's before we started talking about ICE.

Of course the federal criminal investigation is opaque. They all are; if they were transparent, everyone involved would flee justice and destroy evidence. Ramirez is a rep and should know better.

Anyway, I'm all for the deconstruction of our layers of police state, this is something that progressive dems and classic conservatives can agree on (and everybody in between).

I like police, I'm just not into multiple different agencies doing the same work. It's redundant and it costs billions, we don't need US Border Patrol, ICE, and Department of Homeland Security. Just local and FBI is sufficient.

However, Omar is a thief, and she should be investigated thoroughly, she stinks of corruption and rot. She had no money in 2018 when she was elected, now 8 years later she's a multi-millionaire. She's knee deep in welfare fraud, with her friends already serving decades behind bars for stealing tens of millions of dollars from the welfare system.

She's stealing from the most vulnerable of people, the very people that she should be helping.

... and when Democrats take the majority in a couple weeks, they should also root out and arrest every corrupt Republican that they can (instead of sitting on their ass like they did when Biden was in office). I'm fine with bOtH pArTiEs investigating the other. More of this.

The duplicative nature of DHS isn’t incompetence, it’s deliberate deception. DHS was created to put down dissidents in America, not terrorists.

I see your dhs and raise you the police.

Yep, start rolling back all those patriot act police state bullshit.

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It was created in my lifetime and it totally fucking sucks. If we have to cut things because of budgetary concerns, it's a great candidate.

End the Patriot Act.

DHS has always been a dystopian reminder of the ruination of America that began with the response to 9/11. I never agreed to give up any freedom for their security theater. They just did all that shit to us.

Abolish the police state, don't stop at DHS.

No party is more progressive than Democrats when they know their bills have absolutely no hope in hell of passing.

It's crazy how many people think we've always had DHS...

Go further abort Capitalism

Abolish the Republican party. Abolish corporate entities. Abolish private ownership of powerful technology. Abolish secret science in the form of private research. Everyone needs to know what you're doing with the worlds resources and whether it's a threat to the community. Eliminating the privacy of the powerful is the only surveillance system that is actually needed, for the safety of the community.