ICE on ice? Move to abolish ICE, at center of storm in immigration battle, has a long way to go Hemanth Gundavaram, co-director of our Immigrant Justice Clinic at Northeastern University in Boston, disagrees. He says the cost of ICE far outweighs the threat from immigrants. ICE, he says, has become a tool for President Donald Trump to “implement his racist and xenophobic” immigration policies.