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!
So the tribe has spoken !
It is now ok to start putting words in others mouths as if those people said it and meant it.
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!
But what if we opened the border, for a select few criminals?
MEXICO CITY (AP) â Mexicoâs security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.
After rising through the ranks of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Ahmed al-Sharaa was arrested in 2006 by American forces while planting explosives intended for American troops. He was imprisoned for more than five years. Trump just praised the terrorist leader as a âyoung, attractive guy. Tough guy. Strong past. Very strong past.â During recent talks between Syria and the U.S., Al-Sharaa, the Syrian leader, proposed building a Trump Tower in Damascus if U.S. sanctions were lifted. Trump lifted the sanctions.
I need someone to tell me what to think about this because I can't stop thinking that as corrupt as this is on its face, there's still an upside: This guy is grown up, maybe, and trying to make Syria dictator-proof, maybe? As long as they continue to move toward a better Syria for all, that should be rewarded. And if TrumpCo gets someone to invest and it all goes to shit later, well who cares about that?
After rising through the ranks of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Ahmed al-Sharaa was arrested in 2006 by American forces while planting explosives intended for American troops. He was imprisoned for more than five years. Trump just praised the terrorist leader as a âyoung, attractive guy. Tough guy. Strong past. Very strong past.â During recent talks between Syria and the U.S., Al-Sharaa, the Syrian leader, proposed building a Trump Tower in Damascus if U.S. sanctions were lifted. Trump lifted the sanctions.
So Trump... who has railed against Mexico shipping the worst people into the United States... is openly rolling out the red carpet to accept the worst of the worst?
You can't make this stuff up folks... It's almost as if the whole border closing thing was an elaborate farce to pump up his ego.
I got an idea... maybe they can crash at Kurt's place and macrodose some psychedelics?
So Trump... who has railed against Mexico shipping the worst people into the United States... is openly rolling out the red carpet to accept the worst of the worst?
You can't make this stuff up folks... It's almost as if the whole border closing thing was an elaborate farce to pump up his ego.
I got an idea... maybe they can crash at Kurt's place and macrodose some psychedelics?
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.
