The Department of Homeland security has been a failure from before it stood up, and it has not gotten better. I think this nearly two-decade experiment needs to come to an end. Disband this failed department before its disastrous organizational culture gets any worse.
- That creepy name doomed the department from the start
- The separation of the immigration functions that HELP people from those that pursue people created a militarized anti-immigrant culture in ICE and CBP
- The 22 agencies never coalesced into a function unit
- Workplace morale at DHS has been abysmal across 3 presidencies (these thugs don't even LIKE their jobs)
- Having come up during 2 never-ending wars, the organization is intensely militaristic
- It has a byzantine bureaucracy with unneeded layers that simply cannot function
- It's a vehicle for authoritarianism without accountability
- The quality of its work is uneven across parts of the organization and inconsistent (ahem, Katrina, no records of kids they kidnapped, drunk Secret Service agents slamming cars into barricades + fighting with hookers)
AND it's too big to function efficiently.

WRAP IT UP, SHUT IT DOWN, DISBAND DHS
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