ICE didn't exist before 2003. It was born out of the War on Terror — the same political project that expanded U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Now the same infrastructure surveils immigrants in Minneapolis and bombs journalists in Gaza. Author Harsha Walia on why you can't separate the two. https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/we-cannot-separate-imperialism-from-domestic-militarization-understanding-the-links-between-ice-gaza-and-u-s-foreign-policy/