Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Why Is ICE So Aggressive Now?

ICE used to arrest the "worst first." Under the new Trump administration, the agency is following a different playbook, says a former ICE chief.

Posted by lamplighter at 08:31 PM | 24 COMMENTS | permalink

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Los Angeles County officials will vote Tuesday on whether to declare a state of emergency that would give them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids. https://to.pbs.org/4nRuvaj

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-- PBS News (@pbsnews.org) Oct 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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... In the past few weeks, ICE's efforts have intensified even more, with growing public outcry.

In suburban Chicago last month, a masked ICE agent shot a pepper ball into the head of a Presbyterian pastor as he prayed outside an ICE facility. Another ICE agent fatally shot a Mexican immigrant in Illinois.

Also last month, in New York City, an ICE officer was removed from duty after he was captured on video forcibly shoving a woman to the ground outside an immigration court.

Meanwhile, earlier this month, ICE agents conducted a military-style raid on a South Side Chicago apartment building, detaining hundreds of residents, many of whom are U.S.-born children.

On Thursday, after Chicago journalists and protestors sued the federal government alleging "extreme brutality" from agents on the ground, a federal judge in Illinois blocked federal agents from using force or threatening to arrest journalists. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-14 11:54 AM

Fascists are aggressive.

And lawless.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-14 08:42 PM

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#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-14 08:45 PM

Why Is ICE So Aggressive Now?

Because they're trying to create civil unrest so Trump can declare martial law.

Everything Trump has done in the past 9 months has been to create so much strife in America that people would fight back and he can declare martial law.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-14 09:34 PM

^THIS

#5 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-10-14 10:25 PM


Because they're trying to create civil unrest so Trump can declare martial law.
~ ClownHut.

The AnitIcers act like clowns, then complain its a circus.
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American Lumpers are hilarious.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-14 10:44 PM

The AnitIcers

Antifa wasn't good enough anymore?

Anti_ICE would be people who are against spending billions on Trump's goon force.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-14 11:18 PM

AnitIcers act like clowns

Ha! I love those!

Thanks for sharing.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-14 11:21 PM

Why are they so aggressive?

They are actually enforcing the law. Something the last admin didn't do.

They are so aggressive because that's what the American people want and voted for.

Of course the people in your bubble don't want it. You want illegals voting to push your agenda because there arent enough people to vote for your agenda who are actual Americans because America doesn't want your agenda.

#9 | Posted by boaz at 2025-10-15 09:57 AM

They are so aggressive because that's what the American people want and voted for.

#9 | POSTED BY BOAZ

The "American people" don't want pigs.

MAGA wants pigs.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-15 10:03 AM

They (ICE) are actually enforcing the law.

POSTED BY BOAZ

They are a fascist paramilitary operating under the color of law.

They are dangerous in themselves and dangerous because of the outrage they provoke.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-15 10:05 AM

#11,

So you are saying they shouldnt enforce the law? Or only certain laws?

#12 | Posted by boaz at 2025-10-15 10:51 AM

" So you are saying they shouldnt enforce the law? Or only certain laws?"

Trump looks worse and worse with your defense.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-15 10:58 AM

So you are saying they shouldnt enforce the law?

#12 | POSTED BY BOAZ

I'm saying they aren't lawmen.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-15 10:59 AM

They are getting training for when they have to go into Gaza... and Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, Canada, and Greenland.

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-15 11:29 AM

I'm really just waiting for 1Nut to back up his posts and go join ICE.

I just wonder what shtho' country prison he'll wind up in.

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-15 11:36 AM

They are so aggressive because that's what the American people want and voted for.

Boaz is a fascist and no one is surprised.

The American people didn't vote for Trump to waste billions of taxpayer dollars for masked morons to kidnap people in America.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-15 12:39 PM

Because they are going after dangerous gangbangers, which is not done 'gently'.

#18 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-10-15 04:41 PM

they are going after dangerous gangbangers, which is not done 'gently'.

The next "dangerous gangbanger" they go after will be the first.

You're a fascist.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-15 05:15 PM

There will come a day when the faces behind the masks, and their names that forever will shame them, will be known. Whether something is actually done about it, is another matter entirely.

#20 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-10-15 08:41 PM

ICE is overly aggressive because they are targeting easy marks and know they will face no disciplinary actions.

ICE will not target "the worst" because "the worst" might be armed.

Didn't the Uvalde school shooting on site commander say they were not storming the shooter because one of them (the COPs) might get shot? They spent a lot of their time standing around waiting and listening to children being shot.

#21 | Posted by Hickory at 2025-10-15 09:05 PM

#18

You're a ------- clown. Go ---- yourself, you pathetic -------.

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-15 11:40 PM

One Nut thinks he made a point.

#23 | Posted by cbob at 2025-10-16 06:56 AM

Why the aggression? That's easy, they get off on it.

#24 | Posted by Sezu at 2025-10-16 07:43 AM

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