How Trump's ICE enforcement record blows Obama's out of the water— by a lot - "Between the president’s Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration and the end of November, Trump’s administration arrested an extraordinary total of 595,000 illegal aliens and deported 605,000. The 170 ICE-detained US citizens cited in Stanage’s diatribe included about 130 arrested for interfering with or assaulting officers, according to the left-leaning ProPublica — justifiable under any reading of the law. Only about 40 or so of those who were detained claimed to be US citizens accidentally or erroneously arrested by ICE, and just half of those people were held for more than a day; most were released in a few hours. Any error is serious, but 40 mistakes out of 595,000 arrests amounts to an error rate of just 0.0067% — roughly one wrongful detention for every 14,925 arrests. Compare that with the final two years of President Barack Obama’s administration. In fiscal years 2015 and 2016, ICE recorded 263 mistaken arrests, 54 mistaken detentions (book-ins), and four mistaken removals. During those two years, ICE made a mere 239,645 arrests, meaning the 54 mistaken detentions alone produced an Obama error rate of 0.0225% — about one mistake for every 4,444 arrests. Overall, the error rate under Obama was 3.36 times higher than under Trump... As further evidence of ICE’s irresponsibility, Stanage charged that “32 people died in ICE custody last year.” That claim, however, misleads without context; the numbers only make sense when compared across administrations. During the course of Obama’s two terms, from 2009 to 2017, 56 individuals died in ICE custody. That administration didn’t publish clear detention totals, but the closest available figures show about 498,646 detentions and deportations over five fiscal years, an average of roughly 99,729 per year. If that annual rate held throughout the entire administration, ICE processed about 797,834 individuals. Under that estimate, 56 deaths translates into a rate of 0.007% — roughly one death for every 14,314 detainees. By comparison, the rate last year under Trump was slightly lower: 0.0054%, or one death for every 18,594 detainees. Both those figures are substantially below the average death rate for the detainee age group. Stanage’s rant omitted one key data point: the number of Americans accidentally deported. The reason for him not doing so is straightforward — none occurred. That’s right, for all the tumult and fury, ICE under Trump made no erroneous deportations through November... All the media lies and distortions bring disturbing real-world impacts. Amid the drumbeat of slanted coverage, 57% of Americans now disapprove of how ICE enforces immigration laws, a Quinnipiac University survey found this month, with only 40% saying they approve of ICE’s actions. Another recent poll, conducted by CNN/SSRS, found that 51% of adults now say ICE enforcement is making cities less safe. The critics’ demonization tactics are making federal agents’ jobs considerably more dangerous. Assaults on federal immigration officers increased by 1,347% in 2025, as agents experienced a terrifying 8,000% surge in death threats. Car attacks on ICE agents spiked by 3,200%, The Post reports. And in just the last few days, hackers leaked the home addresses and personal identifying information of about 4,500 employees of ICE and the US Border Patrol — multiplying the risks to their safety. No federal agency is perfect. In immigration enforcement, as in all law enforcement operations, mistakes will be made. But the media’s lack of perspective on the data, and their refusal to put the numbers in context, is putting a match to an explosive public debate. Responsible journalism should inform us, not distort reality — or fuel hostility toward those doing a difficult and dangerous job."
Analysis by John Lott
Eric Schwalm on X - "As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse. This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s. The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity. I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night. Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war. We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread. Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore. It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil."
Rick de la Torre on X - "I have 20 years of experience in the intelligence community, and yes, what we’re seeing in Minnesota is closer to insurgency than a protest. A protest doesn’t feature thousands of people on comms, tracking law enforcement to sabotage operations, while armed, or using vehicles to ram officers. What we’re seeing is highly dangerous, coordinated, and risks escalating into something deeply damaging to the country. We need de-escalation now, and an immediate investigation into the funders and leaders behind this operation."
Thread by @kevinnbass on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I am horrified. I cannot believe it. I analyzed public databases and media reporting on violent confrontations with ICE over the past year. Just 9 counties accounted for TWO-THIRDS of violent confrontations with ICE in America. This is twice all violent confrontations in the remaining 3,134 counties COMBINED. A violent confrontation in these 9 counties was 590 TIMES more likely than any of these other 3,134 counties. 590 times. I plotted these 9 counties, and I found that all 9 counties are sanctuary jurisdictions run by Democrat politicians that resist immigration law enforcement. These violent confrontations are RARE in states and cities where local officials cooperate with law enforcement.
For the above figure, I excluded all counties with 3 or fewer incidents to highlight the counties with the highest concentration of violent confrontations. For transparency, here is the full figure, which includes the remaining 65 of 175 violent confrontation spread elsewhere. The major cities in these top 9 counties are well-known: Chicago is at the top, with Brandon Johnson as mayor. Then, in order: Los Angeles (Karen Bass) Minneapolis (Jacob Frey) New York City (Zohran Mamdani) Portland (Karen Wilson) Then San Francisco, Seattle, Newark, and Denver... The top 9 counties account for 63% of all violent confrontations with non-immigrants nationwide... This analysis focuses on confrontations involving people who are NOT the targets of immigration enforcement...
Democrat media and politicians antagonize and agitate activists in these cities, encouraging violent confrontation. We now have evidence that in Minneapolis, the Lieutenant governor herself was coordinating violent resistance. Judges have repeatedly dismissed cases of violent assault by activists in these cities against ICE agents. This allows these activists to act with impunity. It emboldens them. The media never talks about this. The American public not understanding the strategy is required for it to work. On the other hand, any time an ICE agent makes a mistake after being constantly threatened, often with deadly force from these activists, the media talks about it constantly. What's clear is that these cities do not represent America. They represent a violent, activist extreme, supported by a phalanx of activist judges and media. These extremists are trying to create and provoke violence in these decaying, dying parts of the country. Their hope, it appears, is to hamper and eliminate immigration enforcement around the country."
The cope is that this proves that Trump is unleashing his private army Gestapo on his political opponents
Stacy is Right on X - "Democrats STILL say President Donald Trump incited an "insurrection" by saying: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." Compare that quote to:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY):"We need to fight back against ICE's violent, secretive tactics."
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): "We must resist and stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible."
Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA): "ICE get the f--- out of LA so that order can be restored."
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX): "We need to fight back against ICE's abuses."
Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD): "We must fight back and stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible."
Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX): "We have to stand up and fight back against these raids."
Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL): "Communities must resist and protect each other from ICE."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): "We cannot allow ICE to continue these abuses — we have to push back hard."
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA): "It's time to fight back against the cruelty of ICE enforcement."
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): "We must resist ICE's overreach and defend our communities."
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO): "We have to fight back and stop ICE from terrorizing our people."
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA): "Resistance is necessary when ICE comes for our neighbors."
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA): "We need to stand up and fight back against ICE's reckless actions."
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD): "We cannot sit idly by — we must push back against ICE's abuses."
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA): "It's time for communities to resist and hold ICE accountable."
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI): "We will fight back against ICE's inhumane policies."
Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García (D-IL): "We have to resist and protect our immigrant communities from ICE."
Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY): "We need to stand together and fight back against ICE raids."
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ): "We must resist and stop ICE from destroying families."
Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): "Communities are ready to fight back against ICE's cruelty."
We KNOW who the fucking insurrectionists really are."
Pax Americana 🧊 on X - "Message and a story, shared with me this morning from an anonymous DHS patriot on the ground in MPLS right now:
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“It is about negative 20 in Minneapolis right now. Negative 31 with windchill. I was leaving the building we are all holed up in. I think we’ve stacked close to 2,000 people in a building designed for 500. I ran into a grunt officer who’s been sent here from Miami. He clearly had just got back from an operation. Dude looked absolutely exhausted. We talk a little shit about how bad the weather sucks, how tired everyone is from the op tempo. We get outside, I ask him point blank how he feels about risking his life going up against arctic temperatures, criminals, rioters, etc. He stops, looks at me, and says “doesn’t matter. We do the job.” Then he walks off and jumps in a car to get on ANOTHER target. No less than 10 seconds later, one of the garage doors where teams are staging at opens, and about 15-25 guys roll out in full kit and hop in cars for a different target set. Guys are risking it all in -40 temperatures to grab foreign invaders, getting attacked by the very same countrymen they are trying to protect, with an entire city mobilized against them. They don’t even think of stopping for one second. They don’t eat, they barely sleep, they survive on nicotine and black coffee and the occasional MRE. Not one of the dozens if not hundreds of men I’ve talked to even thinks of quitting. Everyone, even senior leadership, is out there right now. There’s equivalent of general officers are out there on the ground making arrests and fighting through protestors alongside their guys. I’ve never seen commitment like this before. These men are genuine heroes. Homeric. They’re putting it all on the line every second of every day. They know that the political winds can shift and that all of the work and sacrifices and dangers could be for nothing. They even know they’ll probably face serious retribution for doing the right thing. But they don’t care, they’re still getting after it. Please, keep these men (and women) in your prayers. They’re a force of 20,000 going up against 20 million. Do everything you can to support them. Donate to their charities, go fund me pages that stuff. Call in fake ICE locations on the trackers to distract the protestors, tell everyone you know about the good work these guys are doing. If you can help ICE and CBP in any small way, do it. Thank you and Godspeed!”"
God's Green Earth - "🚨 LMFAO! It's been revealed that the Georgia high school where students staged a mass anti-ICE walkout only has a 6% math proficiency and 16% reading proficiency. Not shocking in the slightest. This is on the left-wing faculty. Disgusting."
DC_Draino on X - "What a “coincidence” that Tim Walz called President Trump to work together on the riots only *after* the Signal-gate chats were exposed. The rope is tightening on Minnesota fraud."
End Wokeness on X - "Gov. Walz: "We grew up reading the story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write one regarding Minnesota.""
Enguerrand VII de Coucy on X - "Minnesota businesses: “We want to see a de-escalation here, for our local and state government to work with the federal government to end this madness”
Tom Walz: “The federal government is literally Nazi Germany”"
Left wingers love to pretend that Democrats in the US aren't for open borders to support their lie that there is no left wing party in the US. Clearly a governor saying you cannot deport illegal immigrants means nothing
Left wingers love their anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Saying that the Jews in World War II Europe were illegal immigrants and were deported shows how poor their understanding of history is
Holocaust Museum Slams Tim Walz for Comparing Minnesota ICE Shootings to Anne Frank: ‘Deeply Offensive’ - "The U.S. Holocaust Museum went after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after his comments comparing what is happening in Minneapolis to Anne Frank being captured and placed in a concentration camp. On Monday, the museum took to its social media accounts and slammed Walz for the “deeply offensive” nature of the comparison. While they were clear in acknowledging the tensions faced in Minneapolis, drawing the one-to-one comparison was a poor choice in their eyes. “Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish,” the museum said on social media. “Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.”"
Left wingers proceeded to turn on the US Holocaust Museum, of course, despite formerly lauding them. But they view the Jews as illegal immigrants, after all
Gunther Eagleman™ on X - "FETTERMAN just NAILED IT and went full red-pill mode: “ICE agents are just doing their job and I fully support that! And for me, and people in my party might want to abolish it or treat them as criminals or anything, that’s inappropriate and outrageous”"
Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 HOLY CRAP. They have a full-blown lengthy training manual for leftist insurrectionists stalking, harassing and ambushing ICE and Border agents in Minneapolis This is a well-organized and well-funded network. These people need to be in PRISON."
Cassandra MacDonald on X - "Theres so many libs on tiktok urging each other to get their affairs in order and be ready to die for the cause of... protecting illegal alien criminals."
TDOM III: The Great Meme Reset | Facebook - "I’ll just say it: leftists need to stop appealing to constitutionalists and liberty loving right wingers because most of us just do not view illegal aliens being sent home as some liberty crisis. I just don’t care. It’s that simple. And what makes me not care even more was I watched these same people cheer for draconian law after draconian law when it came to things they wanted like climate laws, gun laws, Covid restrictions, etc. I realize republicans also shit on the constitution, but I just will never feel bad for the left. Ever. I’ve seen what makes them cheer, I’m good."
Meme - "She misunderstood the assignment. *older blue haired woman with tattoos having crashed her car into an ICE machine*"
Roaming Catholics | Facebook - "For over 50 years , every year, hundreds of thousands of prolifers have marched in Washington DC and not once was there ever an incident. why? Because we obeyed the law and listened to law enforcement. We didnt block anyone, we went to designated areas. Thats a peaceful protest. What we are seeing in Minnesota is lawssness with the liberal leaders actually instigating and encouraging it. ICE is in every state, why is only Minnesota having issues?"
Clear proof that it's the right wing that is violent and that anti-abortion protests need to be banned to protect innocent civilians
Meme - "Leftists call ICE the "Gestapo," then assauit anyone who doesn't pass their political purity test. Clowns.
Kay Unfiltered: The loudest 'anti-fascists' behaving exactly like fascists. History is laughing...."
Meme - Kangmin Lee @kangminjlee: ""Kill all rapists" libs when rapists and murderers are actually imprisoned *police officer in neon vest looking despondent*"
Matt Lewis @mattklewis: "I just don't know how you can defend sending people here -and then politicians taking photo ops *inmates frog marched in prison*"
Meme - "Root Cause Analysis: HOW POLICY TURNS INTO CONFLICT
IF Congress passes law... THEN that law is meant to be followed:
IF people disagree with the law, THEN they should petition lawmakers to change it.
IF federal leaders are responsible for enforcing the law. THEN federal agencies like ICE carry out enforcement.
IF state leaders disagree with the law THEN enforcement weakens.
IF governors publicly adopt non-cooperation policies THEN cities feel safe ignoring the law.
IF mayors restrict police cooperation THEN federal agents operate without local support.
IF federal agents work without support THEN enforcement becomes dangerous.
IF protesters see non-cooperation policies THEN implicit permission to interfere increases.
IF protester interference escalates THEN potential for conflict increases.
Rinse & Repeat
Laws are not optional.
If a law is wrong, change the law.
Ignoring it shifts problems downward until they appear as street-level conflict."
Ken Gardner on X - "“Protest culture” is a huge problem. We romanticize protesters. We admire their “passion, “courage,” and “idealism.” We think that emoting, screaming, inconveniencing, and threatening people with street protests and even riots or disorderly conduct is how we actually persuade people to do what we want — because way too many people forgot or never learned how to reason, how to think, how to argue with credibility and logic as well as passion. Social media hasn’t exactly helped."
Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 CHIEF OF CHICAGO POLICE NAILED IT: "Let me make this CLEAR! Federal agents, ICE, HSI, are officers. They are agents of law enforcement." 🇺🇸 "We need to be clear about these laws. We cannot become a society where we just decide to take everything in our own hands and start to commit crimes against law enforcement!" "It is a crime. You may not like what they're doing. I can understand that there's a lot of emotions out there, but that does NOT mean that you get to commit a crime, especially one that could lead to deadly force." "We need to keep everyone safe. Our responsibilities when it comes to federal agents, and I've been asked these questions, we do not interfere with the duties and responsibilities of federal agents." - stated in Oct. 2025 Even in CHICAGO, you can stand with ICE and all federal agents. The Minneapolis Police Chief should be saying this RIGHT NOW."
Miranda Devine on X - "Anti-ICE protesters blaring whistles are self-engrossed morons who are not helping the illegal migrants they pretend to care about. It's all about them and some sane immigrants rights groups agree. They have been begging the protesters to stop blowing whistles. This from the Montgomery County immigrant rights collective: "This is not an action movie. You are not in a one-on-one fight with ICE. And you are not the center of this situation.""
Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 NOW: Leftist stalker is driving CIRCLES around a reported ICE vehicle in St. Paul while their co-conspirators blow whistles to alert illegals of their presence Once again, highly-coordinated groups magically show up instantly. ARREST the organizers"
Sulla on X - "These people simple don’t know how propaganda and protesting works and unfortunately are still buying the propaganda of the left Here is the strategy of the ongoing protests / insurrections: (1) apply enough pressure to ICE and get in enough confrontations that people get hurt. (2) Once that happens, amplify it everywhere to raise the tensions and get the Trump Admin to leave (note this is also how terrorist groups work) This is brutal and ghastly but it is far mor effective than marching around like we saw yesterday. The goal is simple: increase the odds of something bad happening, namely, ICE using force on “peaceful” protestors, capitalize on that when it happens, and try to shift public opinion until the Trump Admin cries uncle. Clearly, you fell for it. Normally, police are do not use lethal force that much. ~1,500 people are killed by 600,000 cops annually. That’s ~4 people on average per day over 600,000 cops, so 0.00667 per 1,000. There are 3,000 ICE agents in Minneapolis so based on that we can estimate 0.175 fatal police shootings per day. DHS first surged to Minneapolis on 1/6, so they’ve been there for about 18 days. We should expect about 0.37 lethal shootings or one every 49 days or so There have been 2 lethal shootings in 18 days, so that’s about 440% higher than it should be. But why ? Are ICE agents just incompetent ? No, on the contrary, the protest movement itself is causing these. First, the protest movement is raising the stress on the agents by following the around, blowing whistle and horns, screaming, and making noise where they sleep. Maybe you think professionals should be immune to this, but they’re not, and it will degrade performance by some meaningful amount. Second, and more importantly, the protestors themselves are attacking ICE agents. We know from their own training materials as well as what they do on video they are training to “de-arrest” which is a euphemism for “attack the agents and try to free a detained person.” This isn’t peaceful protesting this is literal violent obstruction and brawling with police. We know many of the protestors are extremely emotional, mentally unwell, and very very agitated. Just listen to their voices. They’re angry. They’re not well trained at all, and they’re going to make dumb decisions which increase the probability of ICE using lethal force. This is exactly what the protest ringleaders want. When this happens, they pounce. The actual facts don’t matter. We already know they lie, deceive, and selectively edit. All that matters is that they can spin this for themselves. And they have a national media apparatus that will do it for them (MSM). And many people will eat it up, not just lefties. Most people simply don’t like watching videos of people getting hurt or killed, even if it’s legally justified."
Stu Smith on X - "DRUM, which supported Zohran Mamdani early, is co-hosting a self-defense training described as preparing participants to confront ICE, with listed components including “striking,” “escaping holds,” and “community defense.”"
Stu Smith on X - "Here’s video from this DRUM co-sponsored event. The PowerPoint literally says “De-arrest Primer.” Looks like my suspicions were right. This is the kind of street-tactics class where people pick up black bloc–style tricks to make cops’ lives hell, from “de-arrests” to physically impeding law enforcement in the middle of an operation."
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino on X - "“How to get at least a few more people shot by police” courtesy of left-wing nonprofits and activists. Understand that this is the whole concept, and they don’t care how it ends either way — either they obstruct police and prevent them from making arrests, or the police shoot someone. Either way they see it as a win for their side. Frustrated cops and fewer arrests, or the optics of a shooting for them to spin into propaganda. It’s just pure evil."
