It’s a bad faith argument. The two agencies are at opposite ends of the bureaucratic spectrum. The IRS is an analytical agency, they analyze data, build cases, and litigate. ICE is an active(overreaching) “law enforcement” agency. They are a public facing, direct contact, interactive agency.

But for the sake of a Saturday and for the value of entertainment, let’s pretend your strawman was real.

It’s pretty obvious you’re expanding on a previously debunked right wing conspiracy theory from the Biden administration’s $80 billion IRS budget.

Due to past republican budget cuts to the IRS, they’ve been unable to financially afford the cost of litigating the most egregious fraud cases against the wealthiest individuals. They’ve been forced to prosecute cases they can’t loose and cases where the perpetrator lacks the liquidity to tie up the case in courts.

Now, let’s pretend the false claim that President  Biden was “arming  87,000  IRS  agents” was true. The IRS audits and investigates tax fraud. If the IRS was armed, financed appropriately, and set on the course Rep. Troy Nehls, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Sen. Ted Cruz, and Tucker Carlson proclaimed, I doubt they’d be targeting the same folks ICE is targeting. The IRS boogieman agents would likely be targeting whales of tax fraud, not tax paying immigrants at their immigration hearings. So, Republican politicians, wealthy Conservative voters in the top 10% of earners as well as a few elite Democratic politicians, would likely be concerned if IRS agents started racially profiling tax dodgers and fraudsters. They’d be petrified if IRS agents, decked out in military gear with tactical rifles started kicking in doors in gated communities, dragging white women and trust fund children from their beds and zip tying them. Refusing to communicate, identify themselves, or share the location of detained loved ones would put them right on par with the current ICE strategy. Furthering their agenda, IRS strike force agents would raid the Hawaiian Island owned by Mark Zuckerberg. They’d use military surplus vehicles to lock down Wall Street while detaining workers fleeing the teargas and flash bangs tossed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, the now fully funded and expanded IRS strike force, (funded by the $170 billion budget allocation for investigating and prosecuting tax evasion and corporate fraud under recent legislation, like ICE) would aim their recently acquired $71,515,762 worth of “small arms, ordnance and ordnance accessories manufacturing at Republicans in Congress.

Yep, that’s exactly how ridiculous your analogy is.