Now You Know: Olivia Munn Explains I.C.E.

If you've been paying attention to the news

you might have noticed a lot of people

are talking about ICE.

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Okay, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

So, here's what you need to know.

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ICE was created in 2003 as a response to 9/11.

Now part of the new Department of Homeland Security,

ICE's job was to find people living in the United States

without legal immigration status and deport them.

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With ICE, the government started deporting

a lot more people than they used to.

Deportations reached a record high under Barack Obama,

but Donald Trump introduced a new zero-tolerance policy

so people who have been working and living in America

for decades are being rounded up and deported

even if they haven't committed a crime.

ICE is even detaining people who came here

looking for asylum,

and you've probably heard about the thousands of children

ICE separated from their families

and held in detention centers this year.

Trump signed an executive order directing ICE

to stop separating families in June.

However, hundreds of kids have yet to be reunited

with their parents.

Actually, investigators found that some

were even put up for adoption here in the U.S.

Politicians have different views on ICE.

Republicans like Steve Scalise

think we should leave ICE alone.

They say that getting rid of it

would lead to open borders.

Some, like Democrat Pramila Jayapal

have called it a rogue agency

and say that we should abolish ICE.

Others like Democrat Kamala Harris

think ICE should be overhauled

and the agency should just start from scratch.

So, when you vote in your midterm elections this November

and you will vote,

your candidate will have an opinion on ICE.

Maybe they wanna abolish it, maybe they won't,

but you'll need to understand it first.

You need to know what ICE is.

So, now you know.

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