“Abolish ICE” makes for red-meat copy on the side of a Chicago street sweeper. But neither Mayor Brandon Johnson nor Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton really wants to abolish immigration and customs enforcement in the United States. Having a say over who comes and goes into a country is an intrinsic part of what defines a country. Any country. Every country. No nation in the world — at least beyond a few microstates within a broader customs union — has no customs enforcement whatsoever. If paying attention to what arrives in suitcases or on container ships were to be abolished, we’d be awash in illegal drugs and weapons, and most every business in America would be howling about illegal imports. You can’t enforce domestic laws or keep a country’s citizens safe without customs. Even if some future far-left politicians sold America on the absurdity of open borders when it comes to immigration (also not what other countries do), they’d still have to hold on to customs. Or so one can hope. Which brings us to the arrival of new Homeland Security Secretary Ma
