- Butch Ware 4 Governor 2026
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- This is how the system was designed to work.
This is how the system was designed to work.
Friends,
I’m saying this proudly and with my whole chest: we must Abolish ICE.
Just look at what they’re doing right now:
Last month, they took a mother and her three children—one just a third grader—from a New York dairy farm and shipped them nearly 2,000 miles to Texas.
They did everything by the book—court appearances, asylum paperwork, legal process. No charges. No crime. And still, ICE disappeared them.
As if that weren’t enough: ICE deported a father from Maryland who was a legal U.S. resident to El Salvador before he ever had a hearing.
A judge paused the deportation and the Trump administration let the plane take off anyway. Now Chief Justice John Roberts, serving as a concierge to Donald Trump, just blocked another judge’s order to return him to the U.S.
These aren’t mistakes. They’re not bugs in the system.
They are the system.
ICE was not built to keep people safe. It was built to disappear them.
I’m old enough to remember when ICE didn’t exist.
Before 9/11, before the corporate war on terror, before the twin engines of Islamophobia and state surveillance became bipartisan gospel.
ICE was created by both parties—with overwhelming Democratic support—not as a tool of justice, but as an instrument of fear.
To detain, dehumanize, and divide.
If you’re ready to break from the politics of fear and build something rooted in humanity, chip in today. This campaign isn’t backed by war profiteers or corporate lobbyists—it’s powered by people who believe we can do better than cages and cruelty.
Since its inception, ICE has targeted the poor, the undocumented, the refugee, the working mother, the child.
It’s been run by Republicans, maintained by Democrats, and protected by a political class that sees immigrants not as people, but as pawns in their next campaign ad.
And while liberals wring their hands over Trump’s cruelty, they forget:
Obama deported more people than any president in U.S. history. Biden campaigned on “humanity,” then kept the machine humming.
There is no high ground in this duopoly—just shared responsibility for a legacy of pain.
ICE is not failing. It is functioning exactly as intended. And we cannot fix what was built to harm.
We have to abolish it—and build something new.
That’s why I’m running with the Green Party. Because we can’t abolish cruelty inside a system that profits from it.
Because the corporate parties will never dismantle the very structures they depend on.
Because we need a movement built not on donors and deals—but on dignity, solidarity, and truth.
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