The United States Department of Human Trafficking

ICE isn’t enforcing the law. It’s disappearing people. And the government is running it like a cartel.

There comes a point in every collapsing empire when the mask slips, the euphemisms dissolve, and the institutions meant to uphold the law start operating like the enforcers of a rogue state. That point arrived long ago for ICE, but this week it kicked into something even darker: the Department of Homeland Security has effectively rebranded itself, not i…