Abolish ICE

There is hope for some people.

From @rawstorymedia -

"I was taught to absolutely fear Muslims and to fear Democrats because I really thought that they were trying to get me killed, basically,” Reed said.

“I was 6 years old, very very scared.”

“I was back to a ‘MAGA is the way. MAGA is life.’ situation … my grandparents, my mother, they definitely really influenced how I got into it, and then that continued for a couple of years.” . . .

But, in spring 2025, an AI chatbot started to give him a new perspective when he wanted to learn more about the pushback against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s raids across the country.

“I started asking ChatGPT why there's been a bunch of uproar, and what are people saying about it?” Reed said.

What he discovered left him sick.

“I was absolutely disgusted with how the operation went down because, for the first time in my life, I actually saw how dehumanizing, how ICE was being used by the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration. I was appalled. I was horrified.” . . .

"At that point, I realized that I supported a really bad cause. I really meant well, and I did wrong. I really did.”

Reed said he had the choice to live with “cognitive dissonance” or speak out about his mistake in following Trump.

“The best thing I thought that I could do at that point was to further educate myself on why there has been an uproar against MAGA and to then use that newfound information for me to go ahead and actually do something about it,” Reed said.

While researching, Reed found Leaving MAGA, a growing online community of former Trump supporters whose allegiance to him is blamed for issues including losing friends, family relationships and marriages, committing crimes in Trump’s name, embracing Christian nationalism, and believing conspiracies."