Kurtster: we have to close the border to illegal immigration because it is burdening our legal system and leading to chaos.
Trump: I'll close the border and piss all over our legal institutions and create chaos.
Kurtster: That's my man!
To be fair... let's sit on our collective asses and wait to see how this plays out.
Right, and as long as Trump closed the borders kurt and his ilk could give a f*ck about anything else. Constitution and rights be damned!
Kurtster: we have to close the border to illegal immigration because it is burdening our legal system and leading to chaos.
Trump: I'll close the border and piss all over our legal institutions and create chaos.
Kurtster: That's my man!
They wear masks. They show no badges. They storm homes without warrants. They drag people away without cause. Sometimes they take neighbors. Sometimes parents. Sometimes U.S. citizens.
Who are they?
They call themselves ICE agents. But in Donald Trumpâs second term, they no longer enforce immigration law. They enforce fear.
In March 2025, masked men raided homes in El Paso. No names. No warrants. No explanation. âThey kicked the door in and told me to shut up,â said Karina Velasquez, a 32-year-old mother whose husband was taken. âMy kids watched him get dragged away. No one has told us where he is.â
Two weeks later in Chicago, a high school teacherâLaura Peñaâwas detained for filming ICE agents near a train station. Sheâs a U.S. citizen. They took her phone. They held her for hours. No charges. In Portland, Oregon, ICE teams began conducting raids out of rented U-Haul trucks. They detained people with valid visasâand in one case, a U.S. passport. This isnât enforcement. Itâs state terror.
ICE has outsourced its war on immigrants to private security firms. Triple Canopy. CoreCivic. MVM Inc. The same companies once paid to detain migrants now operate in the fieldâraiding homes, interrogating families, and disappearing people. They wear no insignia. They answer to no agency. They operate in the shadowsâwith the blessing of the White House.
In Phoenix, a contractor involved in a 2025 ICE raid had previously been fired for abuse at a detention facility. That didnât stop Trumpâs ICE from rehiring him. A leaked memo from a DHS regional supervisor, dated March 3, warned that âoperational opacityââmasks, secret teams, no court reviewâwould trigger lawsuits and public backlash. Trumpâs team ignored it. Because secrecy isnât the problem. Itâs the strategy.
The Fourth Amendment bars unlawful searches. The Fifth guarantees due process. The Fourteenth protects equality under the law. Trumpâs ICE disregards all three. Agents now use administrative warrantsâdocuments signed internally, not by judgesâas a pretext for entering homes and detaining residents. These hold no legal weight in court, but ICE presents them as law.
In 2020, the Supreme Court ruling in DHS v. Thuraissigiam stripped due process rights from asylum seekers. That crack in the dam has become a floodâused now to justify raids and detentions across the interior, not just at the border. In March 2025, a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered ICE to release two Brazilian nationals with green cards. ICE deported them anyway.
âThis isnât law enforcementâitâs terror,â said former federal judge Marilyn Torres. âICE is operating outside the Constitution. And that should terrify every American.â
ICE has also detained dozens of U.S. citizensâheld them for days, sometimes weeks. They were Brown. Poor. Accented. In 2019, Francisco Galicia, a Dallas-born teenager, was held for 26 days in ICE custody. Now under Trumpâs second term, such cases have multiplied. ICE refuses to release data on how many detainees were citizens. Why? Because that would admit the truth: they no longer check.
Where is Congress? Where are the hearings? Where are the Democrats who once said âAbolish ICEâ? Gone. Judges issue orders. ICE ignores them. City councils pass sanctuary laws. Local police share data anyway. The federal government isnât just failing. Itâs participating.
And this isnât new. Itâs repetition. In 1919, the Palmer Raids swept up thousands of suspected radicals without cause. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 interned 120,000 Japanese Americansâmost of them citizens. From the 1950s through the 1970s, COINTELPRO targeted civil rights leaders with state surveillance and sabotage. Every time, it started with fear. Every time, we looked away. Every time, we later called it a national shame.
We are repeating the cycleâwith more technology, fewer legal checks, and far more apathy. The lesson of history is not that secret police start regimes. Itâs that democracies end when no one stops them.
So who are these men in masks?
They donât wear name tags. They donât show badges. They donât read rights. They are paid by your taxes. They are shielded by your silence. And they are loyal to only one thing: Donald Trump.
He declared immigrants an invasion. Now heâs treating American soil like a war zone. And ICEâonce a law enforcement agencyâis now his foot soldier.
Theyâre not enforcing immigration law. Theyâre enforcing fear. And the longer we tolerate it, the closer we come to becoming the country Trump already believes we are.
*Tony Pentimalli is a political analyst and commentator fighting for democracy, economic justice, and social equity. Follow him for sharp analysis and hard-hitting critiques on Facebook and BlueSky
@tonywriteshere.bsky.social
Right, and as long as Trump closed the borders kurt and his ilk could give a f*ck about anything else. Constitution and rights be damned!
They wear masks. They show no badges. They storm homes without warrants. They drag people away without cause. Sometimes they take neighbors. Sometimes parents. Sometimes U.S. citizens.
Who are they?
They call themselves ICE agents. But in Donald Trumpâs second term, they no longer enforce immigration law. They enforce fear.
In March 2025, masked men raided homes in El Paso. No names. No warrants. No explanation. âThey kicked the door in and told me to shut up,â said Karina Velasquez, a 32-year-old mother whose husband was taken. âMy kids watched him get dragged away. No one has told us where he is.â
Two weeks later in Chicago, a high school teacherâLaura Peñaâwas detained for filming ICE agents near a train station. Sheâs a U.S. citizen. They took her phone. They held her for hours. No charges. In Portland, Oregon, ICE teams began conducting raids out of rented U-Haul trucks. They detained people with valid visasâand in one case, a U.S. passport. This isnât enforcement. Itâs state terror.
ICE has outsourced its war on immigrants to private security firms. Triple Canopy. CoreCivic. MVM Inc. The same companies once paid to detain migrants now operate in the fieldâraiding homes, interrogating families, and disappearing people. They wear no insignia. They answer to no agency. They operate in the shadowsâwith the blessing of the White House.
In Phoenix, a contractor involved in a 2025 ICE raid had previously been fired for abuse at a detention facility. That didnât stop Trumpâs ICE from rehiring him. A leaked memo from a DHS regional supervisor, dated March 3, warned that âoperational opacityââmasks, secret teams, no court reviewâwould trigger lawsuits and public backlash. Trumpâs team ignored it. Because secrecy isnât the problem. Itâs the strategy.
The Fourth Amendment bars unlawful searches. The Fifth guarantees due process. The Fourteenth protects equality under the law. Trumpâs ICE disregards all three. Agents now use administrative warrantsâdocuments signed internally, not by judgesâas a pretext for entering homes and detaining residents. These hold no legal weight in court, but ICE presents them as law.
In 2020, the Supreme Court ruling in DHS v. Thuraissigiam stripped due process rights from asylum seekers. That crack in the dam has become a floodâused now to justify raids and detentions across the interior, not just at the border. In March 2025, a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered ICE to release two Brazilian nationals with green cards. ICE deported them anyway.
âThis isnât law enforcementâitâs terror,â said former federal judge Marilyn Torres. âICE is operating outside the Constitution. And that should terrify every American.â
ICE has also detained dozens of U.S. citizensâheld them for days, sometimes weeks. They were Brown. Poor. Accented. In 2019, Francisco Galicia, a Dallas-born teenager, was held for 26 days in ICE custody. Now under Trumpâs second term, such cases have multiplied. ICE refuses to release data on how many detainees were citizens. Why? Because that would admit the truth: they no longer check.
Where is Congress? Where are the hearings? Where are the Democrats who once said âAbolish ICEâ? Gone. Judges issue orders. ICE ignores them. City councils pass sanctuary laws. Local police share data anyway. The federal government isnât just failing. Itâs participating.
And this isnât new. Itâs repetition. In 1919, the Palmer Raids swept up thousands of suspected radicals without cause. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 interned 120,000 Japanese Americansâmost of them citizens. From the 1950s through the 1970s, COINTELPRO targeted civil rights leaders with state surveillance and sabotage. Every time, it started with fear. Every time, we looked away. Every time, we later called it a national shame.
We are repeating the cycleâwith more technology, fewer legal checks, and far more apathy. The lesson of history is not that secret police start regimes. Itâs that democracies end when no one stops them.
So who are these men in masks?
They donât wear name tags. They donât show badges. They donât read rights. They are paid by your taxes. They are shielded by your silence. And they are loyal to only one thing: Donald Trump.
He declared immigrants an invasion. Now heâs treating American soil like a war zone. And ICEâonce a law enforcement agencyâis now his foot soldier.
Theyâre not enforcing immigration law. Theyâre enforcing fear. And the longer we tolerate it, the closer we come to becoming the country Trump already believes we are.
*Tony Pentimalli is a political analyst and commentator fighting for democracy, economic justice, and social equity. Follow him for sharp analysis and hard-hitting critiques on Facebook and BlueSky
@tonywriteshere.bsky.social
The thing that caught my eye was his defender's tweet, that said "in just 5 months, heâs already accomplished more than Biden did in 4 years." But I thought Joe did so much damage it will take years to undo. Did nothing in 4 years but is responsible for Everything Wrong Everywhere. Like the lazy immigrants who are taking our jobs.
The thing that caught my eye was his defender's tweet, that said "in just 5 months, heâs already accomplished more than Biden did in 4 years." But I thought Joe did so much damage it will take years to undo. Did nothing in 4 years but is responsible for Everything Wrong Everywhere. Like the lazy immigrants who are taking our jobs.
So Universities that don't punish those verbally supporting Palestine, which might offend Jewish students, lose their funding.... all while the guy directing those punishments is taking money from Hamas' bankers?
You literally can't make this shit up...
All of the "Joe Biden is owned by China" folks must have missed this.... since it isn't worth space of Fox News. Somebody has to cover the McDonald's trailer the Saudi's brought in to honor Trump's fast food obsession. How much laughing do you think the Saudi's do at Trump's expense?
Qatar has been a key financial supporter of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas, transferring more than $1.8 billion to Hamas over the years.<1><2> In consultation with the U.S. and Israeli governments, $30 million were transferred monthly to Hamas, according to a Qatari official interviewed by Der Spiegel in 2023.<3>
The United States requested in 2011 that Qatar provide a base for the Hamas leadership to ease communications with the group.<3> From 2012, Qatar hosted the Hamas party leadership when Hamas head Khaled Mashal relocated from Syria to Qatar.<4> The former head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, had resided in Doha since 2016 until his death in 2024.<5> Qatar has been called Hamas' most important financial backer and foreign ally.<6><7>
From 2018 to 2023, Israel's government enabled and approved of the Qatari support for Hamas for political reasons.<8> (...)
In 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama personally requested that Qatar, one of the U.S.'s most important Arab allies, provide a base for the Hamas leadership. At the time, the U.S. were seeking to establish communications with Hamas and believed that a Hamas office in Qatar would be easier to access than a Hamas bureau in Iran, the group's main backer.<14><15>(...)
So Universities that don't punish those verbally supporting Palestine, which might offend Jewish students, lose their funding.... all while the guy directing those punishments is taking money from Hamas' bankers?
You literally can't make this shit up...
All of the "Joe Biden is owned by China" folks must have missed this.... since it isn't worth space of Fox News. Somebody has to cover the McDonald's trailer the Saudi's brought in to honor Trump's fast food obsession. How much laughing do you think the Saudi's do at Trump's expense?
Can we pause for a moment and let the gravity of this sink in...The Qatari royal family bankrolls Hamas.
With approval
Qatar has been a key financial supporter of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas, transferring more than $1.8 billion to Hamas over the years.<1><2> In consultation with the U.S. and Israeli governments, $30 million were transferred monthly to Hamas, according to a Qatari official interviewed by Der Spiegel in 2023.<3>
The United States requested in 2011 that Qatar provide a base for the Hamas leadership to ease communications with the group.<3> From 2012, Qatar hosted the Hamas party leadership when Hamas head Khaled Mashal relocated from Syria to Qatar.<4> The former head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, had resided in Doha since 2016 until his death in 2024.<5> Qatar has been called Hamas' most important financial backer and foreign ally.<6><7>
From 2018 to 2023, Israel's government enabled and approved of the Qatari support for Hamas for political reasons.<8> (...)
In 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama personally requested that Qatar, one of the U.S.'s most important Arab allies, provide a base for the Hamas leadership. At the time, the U.S. were seeking to establish communications with Hamas and believed that a Hamas office in Qatar would be easier to access than a Hamas bureau in Iran, the group's main backer.<14><15>(...)
Saudi Arabia is a U.S. ally. and U.S. military protocol says that it is "customary to salute officers of friendly foreign nations when recognized as such." Saluting officers of unfriendly foreign nations is thought to be forbidden but these protocols don't apply to the commander-in-chief, who is by law a civilian with no military rank or standing.
Former President Barack Obama was also scrutinized for his actions toward foreign leaders after bowing while greeting a previous Saudi ruler, King Abdullah, as well as former Emperor Akihito of Japan in 2009. In the first case, Obama was accused of showing obeisance to a foreign ruler and Islam. In the latter, his behavior was dubbed "treasonous."
Can we pause for a moment and let the gravity of this sink in...The Qatari royal family bankrolls Hamas.
This is Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, relative of the man who the US Defense Department has identified as the funder of the mastermind of the September 11 attacks and helped Khalid Sheikh Mohammed evade capture for many years.
Now they just bought their way into Trumpâs inner circle.This is the same regime that:
⢠Finances Hamas
⢠Was found guilty of bribing hundreds of European Union officials to sway policy in its favor
⢠Financed 9/11 attacks, and it's not just Trump with his snout in the trough:
⢠Pam Bondi â Qatarâs registered lobbyist $115,000 per month
⢠Kash Patel â Security consulting for Qatar
⢠Eric Trump â Building Qatari-funded golf resorts
⢠Jared Kushner â Took $1.5B from Qatari and Emirati funds
⢠Lee Zeldin â His firm was paid by a Qatari-linked company
⢠Steve Witkoff â Business ties with Qatari interests
⢠Barry Bennett & Doug Watts â Secretly lobbied for Qatar
⢠Joey Allaham â Arranged Qatari meetings with Trump insidersQatar doesnât spend billions for friendship.
They don't give 'gifts'. They invest to control. They've been cited as one of the most corrupt countries on earth, specifically for bribing targets and people it deems necessary to cultivate.
Terror money is still terror. No matter how big the check.
After being called out this week, DOGE quietly deleted 31 contracts from its website wiping out $122 million in supposed âsavingsâ Muskâs team had claimed from cutting federal spending. But the site is still riddled with errors.
