>>493624ICE is actually part of the same programme, they're using it to sow chaos and fear domestically and to crack down on dissent both to the genocide in Palestine and to a coming largescale war.
Probably the real reason the DHS was created under Bush to begin with - the neocons/American state have been planning war with Iran since even earlier than that. The same instruments incorporated into DHS/NSA/whathaveyou power will be used against the American public, and so will the "cop cities" they spent the last several years of the 2020s building without public consent.
The insane crackdowns in the UK and EU are of the same nature and serve the same purpose.
The political ramifications of any of this are basically non-existent, because mainstream politics, media, and most of social media have been consolidated under the control of the "security states" in these countries and their oligarchs. The actions taken are unpopular, but they are more worried about actions taken in response than about awareness of their crimes at this point; enough people know what's up, so they are preparing to crack down against material domestic resistance, which is the only actual way to stop them.