Three weeks after unveiling the proposal at a news conference in Chicago, Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez formally filed the Reimagining Safety Act in Congress on October 13 — legislation that would dismantle the Department of Homeland Security entirely, abolish both ICE and CBP, and end all immigration detention in the United States. It is the most sweeping federal restructuring proposal to emerge from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in years.
The bill arrives as a documented surge in ICE-involved shootings and detention deaths has sharpened the immigration debate with just weeks remaining before November's midterm elections.
