No matter what it cost them. Look now. Imagination runs wild with ideas about what could be done to really discourage ICE. Wouldn't be too difficult but nobody
has the gumption. Dont tell me any of my hundreds of ideas arent being done because they are unstrategic (though that may be). Its not a matter of strategy because there is no unity within the working class on that. It is a matter of disorganization, low aspirations, little pre existing infrastructure.
And the international work of the same type, exponentially more expensive and complex. Nobody would even dream of military/guerrilla aid being directed to the people of the united States by an external nation, in the spirit of liberation. We have learned from Palestine that Yemen stands apart from all other nations in its willingness to engage against the empire. And the reputation of Americans being diametrically opposite than the Palestinian people, nobody would feel enough sympathy.
Every nazibrained bureaucrat who ever fought to keep stupid sounding funding streams open to lib community groups, universities, arts, media and "political" clubs in exchange for setting limits on association, speech and actions, is now smiling to see their work pay off.