This DHS funding battle is part of a bigger question Democrats must answer as they fight to regain power.

Large sections of the Democratic base are now echoing calls to “abolish ICE.”

Some Democratic leaders, like New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader,
are pushing back against this with much more tepid, unwieldy, and frankly pretty weak ideas to “restrain, reform, and restrict” the agency.

ICE is just over 20 years old, formed as part of the security theater fever after 9/11,

The United States had immigration enforcement before ICE was created.

Dismantling an agency that at least eight people have died interacting with this year doesn’t seem that outrageous.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205987/democrats-immigration-ice-funding