There's nothing unethical about wanting to keep illegal aliens out of your country.
For example: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/15/ice-deport-witness-s...
The criticism of ICE isn't that they implement the law. It's how they use their power to (to use a recent example) implement forced sterilization of female prisoners: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/unwanted-hys...
I'm not sure that that has much relevance to the above poster's beliefs.
Even though ICE was created after 9/11, it's not like no one was doing immigration enforcement before them. ICE was just a re-org of existing agencies like the INS. In some circles, people don't even refer to ICE by its new name: Meet the new "la migra", same as the old one.
If you're someone like the GP poster who believes that people shouldn't be in the US illegally, it's logical to support immigration enforcement of people past the border. ~40% of people who are in the US illegally didn't enter illegally. They came legally and overstayed their visas. There's really nothing that the CBP can do about that, unless they take on the INS's responsibilities.
(If you don't like factcheck.org, fine, but the facts have been widely reported elsewhere as well.)
I don't think that this gives cover to either Obama or Bush for any abuses of the system under their administration, but suddenly changing to a zero tolerance policy and massively widening the scope of family separation counts as a difference, no?
Now, what does that have to do with the point you were replying to?
I mean, if you think this is a bad practice, shouldn't we end it now? And if you don't think it is a bad practice, why feign anger at the previous administration?
* Just show up and not be obviously sick.
Or am I supposed to tell my children they have to "go back" to countries that no longer exist, on a continent that never wanted them in the first place, six, seven, eight generations after their ancestors left? A continent which is also under pressure to accept whatever immigrants wish to move there, no matter the repercussions of conflicts of culture.
This kind of dismissive attitude towards European-descended Americans is the same racist attitude that underpins the hatred towards anyone who identifies ethnically as "American," which I do, because my family's heritage is long-severed from the Old World, and thank God my kids won't even be able to be accused of being White, that evil race, due to my own miscegenation, so they do not need to listen to this kind of racist drivel about Americans with light skin on sites like this one day after day after day
There is a difference between immigration and illegal immigration.
You can be in favor of immigration, and against illegal immigration.
And why is it the children's fault for something their great great grandparents did? Should all the ancestors of everyone who ever went from one country to another be forced to return to that country? I don't think many countries could handle that many people.