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I put down only facts. I gave no personal evaluation at all.
However since you asked:
I am strongly in favor of serious immigration reform. I view our policies as self conflicting, self destructive, and unrealistic.
In that context imho it's unclear whether ICE is doing a good job or bad job because their job is basically impossible. They're dealing with really bad records because they're dealing with people who are forced to hide from the system. By definition that means they're "marginalized".
We're in prohibition territory. I have no clue whether a "better run and better resourced" (whatever that means) ICE would be better or even worse because we have too many people who are unwilling to follow the law.
I'm not sure whether a "reformed" ICE would be a good thing or a bad thing even in view of that record I just posted.
From 2012 to early 2018, ICE wrongfully arrested and detained 1,480 U.S. citizens, including many who spent months or years in immigration detention.[86] A 2018 Los Angeles Times investigation found that ICE's reliance on incomplete and error-prone databases and lax investigations led to the erroneous detentions.[86] From 2008 to 2018, ICE was sued for wrongful arrest by more than two dozen U.S. citizens, who had been detained for periods ranging from one day to over three years. Some of the wrongfully detained U.S. citizens had been arrested by ICE more than once.[86] The inaccurate government data that ICE used had shown that both immigrants and U.S. citizens were both targets of being detained.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Wrongful_detention_allegations
So they screw up about 200 times a year.
They deport about 750 people a day. Last year 271,484
So they mess up less than one time out of a thousand.
You can if you want... although this kind of stuff is the big reason I didn't vote for him.
At some point this will come to a head, but I expect he'll have to lose some popularity before that. Probably also need to lose Congress.
What the next administration will also be very interesting. A lot of lines are going to be crossed, we're going to have a lot of criminal activity done during this administration.