ICE shouldn’t exist as currently structured. The agency was created in 2003 by merging two distinct functions with different legal standards and oversight mechanisms: immigration law enforcement (formerly Justice Department) and customs enforcement (formerly Treasury Department). That merger created the structural problems that enable today’s violence and extraction without accountability.
Political donation requests are constant. They arrive by email, text, social media, and direct mail. Almost all of them come with urgency: a critical moment, a final push, everything on the line.
Many of the people being asked to give are already stretched thin. Donating isn’t casual for these households. It means tradeoffs, on top of rising costs and tight budgets.
Frustration, hopelessness, anger, and disgust are common.
This response is sometimes called donor fatigue or messaging excess. It is fatiguing and excessive — not because people don’t care, but because it is driven by wealth extraction.
