Swalwell said the ongoing discussions he’s having with other Democrats would go further than that, making ICE funding contingent on first prohibiting masks.
"Funding" ICE? Like, you're saying that it shouldn't have funding?
I mean, ICE is the US's border control. Like, they enforce regulation of movement of people and goods. The US hasn't had uncontrolled borders in terms of people just rolling in and living and working there since ~1870 and I don't know if it's ever had fully unrestricted movement of goods; historically, high-tariffs/low-tariffs was a major part of American politics.
I'm pretty confident that there's no chance of an open-border US happening in the foreseeable future (and ditto for probably all developed countries, though you might get stuff like the European Union...but that's more analogous to states in the US, where the EU just pushed border control to the outer perimeter of a collection of states that internally agreed to common rules on borders).