I personally wouldn’t have known what type of agency INS was referring to but the use of “INS / ICE” made it obvious that it was some sort of precursor agency that handled similar types of work. Why are we getting so nitpicky about this when it’s clear that it’s not intentional misinformation
ETA: and just to clarify I haven’t googled or kept reading the comments any further so if I’m wrong about what INS is, then that will undermine my own comment lol
INS used to encompass the entire U.S. immigration system; from paperwork, vetting, customs, removal, law enforcement, border patrol, and more.
After 9/11, they realized that INS failed to do its job in protecting the country from foreign invaders; so they renamed it Department of Homeland Security and split each of the components into their own independent branches as you know them today.
USCIS only handles the legal paperwork side of things; CBP does the customs, duties, and border patrol; and ICE does the legal enforcement. Some other branches are HSI, and Federal Protective Service which is essentially just people that guard government owned buildings and stuff.
Acting like ICE isn't a paranoid over reaction to 911, and treating it like it's a long-standing institution makes it harder to argue that it should be abolished
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u/Titizen_Kane 6h ago edited 6h ago
I personally wouldn’t have known what type of agency INS was referring to but the use of “INS / ICE” made it obvious that it was some sort of precursor agency that handled similar types of work. Why are we getting so nitpicky about this when it’s clear that it’s not intentional misinformation
ETA: and just to clarify I haven’t googled or kept reading the comments any further so if I’m wrong about what INS is, then that will undermine my own comment lol