How to Fix DHS: The answer to the agency’s abuses is not reform; it is wholesale disassembly ~~and restructuring~~.
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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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DHS is a quarter century old, so a baby by government standards. It was created as part of the response to 9/11 in a time of panic, it's not surprising it was poorly designed with the short term in mind.
Isn't TSA the same? Terrorists really won, didn't they?
TSA is an agency under DHS, so yes.
Lmao what a way to kill a perfectly good title
"And restructuring"?
Get fucked. 0 people I want in office think it should have existed in the first place. 0 people I want in office don't know that it needs to be completely gone yesterday.
We shouldn't be talking about dismantling DHS, that should literally be a given for every single American.
We should be talking about dismantling the Patriot Act which gave it birth.
Man, witnessing the whole country losing their minds at the time is so wild looking back on. Some weird cloud of security paranoia just kinda crept in and never left. No more kids running around wherever, no more shrugging about locking everything, cameras popping up everywhere, airports becoming completely unrecognizable, more invasive security, and conservatives suddenly becoming so much more trusting in the government increasing it's surveillance power. Some real jackasses took advantage of us coming together as a country and grotesquely perverted our unification in shock. I mean, why waste a perfectly good opportunity to create a massive amount of passive wealth in government defense contracts in the long term, amirite?
"Never waste a crisis" -- neoliberalism 101
Some parts of the DHS are useful things on their own. Having customs agents makes sense. Trying to help people after disasters too large for individual states to respond makes sense too. Those things antedate the Patriot Act, and should to be restructured, rather than eliminated.
Switch DHS with USA and agency with country and you have a perfect headline.