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26 October
8:01 pm

ICE was created as the law enforcement arm of Immigration and Naturalization Service

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Mark Baisley, at Colorado U.S. Senate General Election Debate (Colorado Sun)

8:01 pm
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Why we checked itICE's actual institutional origin and relationship to INS is a specific verifiable historical fact — ICE was created under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, not as an arm of INS, which was abolished at the same time
What we foundICE was created from a merger of both the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Customs Service, not solely as the law enforcement arm of the INS.
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