Searchlight Institute is Driving Lib Congresscritters to "Reform ICE"

Recently, Democratic Senators in the US have been looking at shutting down the government again due to events like the more recent extrajudicial killing in Minneapolis.

This brought me down a rabbit hole, because the Dems seem to be doing so at the behest of the "Searchlight Institute". The Searchlight Institute is a think-tank devoted to making the democrats take worse policy positions in the name of "what is popular". One time they came up with the idea to "play down causes like climate change and L.G.B.T.Q. rights to appeal to more voters" despite these things obviously being very popular. This makes me think they are behind a lot of Democratic policy decisions. But what is tying them to the ICE policies recently?

Searchlight Institute recently (PDF) did a poll (PDF) that, according to them, said they should "reform ICE" and not use words like "abolish" since Americans are too baby to know what that means, apparently.

58% of voters want ICE to be reined in. These voters prefer reforming ICE (30%, the top testing option) to eliminating the agency entirely (19%)

Even by their own polling, the American public has a big appetite for curtailing ICE abuses when specifically laid out:

bipartisan majorities oppose detaining American citizens (73% say this should not be allowed), entering private homes without warrants (79%), or wearing plain clothes or uniforms that don’t identify the agency (63% and 70%, respectively). The issue of agents wearing masks was more polarizing, with 55% of voters overall saying they opposed the practice.

Their memo also has this as their header:

Re: Play Hardball: Use Your Leverage to Reform ICE

Which brings me to the conclusion that the egghead behind this think-tank, former Harry Reid aide Adam Jentleson, is trying to get ahead of any potential Abolish ICE trend that could catch on in the Democratic party ranks. Maybe they think it will be another Abolish the police BLM movement or something, what president got elected after the BLM protest movement, by the way? I forgor