# ICE is racist, fascist, lawless, and running concentration camps **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019 "2025-11-20T18:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/381 "2026-01-20T03:56:35Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > “_One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”_ See also [the Chad Mitchell Trio’s “I Was Not a Nazi Polka”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmhgcC5dYkE) (1965), ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/382 "2026-01-22T01:02:22Z")
ICE asserts power to invade homes without a warrant. > Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches. > **[Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's...](https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d)** > > An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/383 "2026-01-22T04:44:36Z")
Next stop: _Nacht und Nebel_: > **[Nacht und Nebel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacht_und_Nebel)** > > Nacht und Nebel (German: \[ˈnaxt ʔʊnt ˈneːbl̩\]), meaning Night and Fog, also known as the Night and Fog Decree, was a directive issued by Adolf Hitler on 7 December 1941 targeting political activists and resistance "helpers" in the territories occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II, who were to be imprisoned, executed, or made to disappear into the "night and fog" of the Reich. The family and the population remained uncertain as to the fate or whereabouts of the alleged offender against th... Oh, who am I kidding? We’re there now. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/384 "2026-01-22T14:10:17Z")
As always with Trump & Co, there _is no_ bottom. This time, they rounded up a few notorious members of (Choo-Choo) Tren de Aragua: > **[ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/ice-arrests-five-year-old-boy-minnesota)** > > Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas > [@](#): > > Marc Prokosch, an attorney representing the family, said the family had an active asylum case and shared paperwork showing the father and son had arrived to the US at a port of entry, meaning an official crossing point. > > “The family did everything they were supposed to in accordance with how the rules have been set out,” he said. “They did not come here illegally. They are not criminals.” He said there was no order of deportation against them and he believes the father and son have remained together in detention. This is what the “Worst of worst” looks like to Trump, Vance, Miller, Noem, et al. The neighbors on each side of my house fly American flags daily. The temptation to **[invert those flags](https://www.gettysburgflag.com/blog/upside-down-american-flag-meaning-in-2025-symbolism-history-and-controversy/)** can be nigh unto overwhelming. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/385 "2026-01-23T16:46:21Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > This is what the “Worst of worst” looks like to Trump, Vance, Miller, Noem, et al. This is what “easy pickings” look like to ICE thugs who are paid per body tossed into the camps. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/386 "2026-01-23T16:47:42Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > ICE asserts power to invade homes without a warrant. Can someone explain to me how a POLICY statement can override the Constitution? How long before this is smacked down, and will anyone follow a court order? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/387 "2026-01-23T16:52:42Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Can someone explain to me how a POLICY statement can override the Constitution? > > How long before this is smacked down, and will anyone follow a court order? It can’t. Define “smacked down”. Probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/388 "2026-01-23T18:15:35Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > How long before this is smacked down, and will anyone follow a court order? Maybe after a new administration? **Maybe.** ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/389 "2026-01-23T18:21:34Z")
ICE agent chases down a child, holds him on the ground, cuffs him. The kid’s terrified, crying and telling the dude he’s legal. Kid’s got no coat, gloves, boots and looks to be wearing pajama pants. It’s -10 in Minneapolis. Then he was put in an unmarked SUV by some masked dude in jeans and driven away. > **[Christopher Watson (@thecatluminati) on Threads](https://www.threads.com/@thecatluminati/post/DT2vNjgFLRd?xmt=AQF0SGBUU13xm9phF073kbH6nLXCAbu4sER4ddN1YGAHl8f8AA1h7LAAg-D4jbQCyGWuj40&slof=1)** > > The ice agents may be wearing masks, but the people who supported this will not be masked in history. At what point do people start fighting these sick fucks? I mean they’re kidnapping children in broad daylight. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/390 "2026-01-23T18:25:14Z")
It’s what half of the voters (The Republicans) wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/391 "2026-01-23T18:31:31Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > > > ICE asserts power to invade homes without a warrant. > > Can someone explain to me how a POLICY statement can override the Constitution? > > How long before this is smacked down, and will anyone follow a court order? About as long as it takes the right wing to release that ICE is confiscating guns. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/392 "2026-01-23T18:31:50Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > It’s what half of the voters (The Republicans) wanted. First comment to that video: > Yea. Nice snapshot of one moment. Whole story please. We have been invaded, by a literal armys worth of illegal aliens. 18.7 million of them. Here with the intent to use our resources, have baby after baby on our dime, and to gain the majority. > I STAND WITH ICE, NOT ILLEGALS There are assholes like that in this country. They support ICE. They support Trump. They are miserable, racist idiots, wallowing in ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/393 "2026-01-23T18:34:52Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > It’s what half of the voters (The Republicans) wanted. And…? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/394 "2026-01-23T18:36:53Z")
This is America. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/395 "2026-01-23T18:49:00Z")
It’s also what half of the voters didn’t want. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/396 "2026-01-23T18:49:55Z")
Also from video comments: “**[edge\_edge\_life](https://www.threads.com/@edge_edge_life)** [36m](https://www.threads.com/@edge_edge_life/post/DT3OCRTkaB2) It looks pitiful..🥲 however, considering what I experienced while living in San Francisco.. Illegal children who came in through the border secret tunnel , work with fake IDs and are especially mobilized for fraudulent elections. That is why I can’t support illegal children” Border secret tunnel? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/397 "2026-01-23T18:58:01Z")
You don’t know about the secret border tunnel? _Everyone_ knows about the secret border tunnel! I can’t go two days without people talking about the secret border tunnel! Turns out it’s not actually all that secret. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/398 "2026-01-23T19:06:48Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You don’t know about the secret border tunnel? _Everyone_ knows about the secret border tunnel! It was constructed as part of [Operation Jade Helm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories) around 10 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/399 "2026-01-23T19:44:30Z")
I thought the first rule of the secret border tunnel was that you don’t talk about the secret border tunnel. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/400 "2026-01-23T19:54:30Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Border secret tunnel? How did they disguise themselves in San Francisco? Were they wearing flowers in their hair? And now… This… > **["We want you arrested because we said so": Ex-judge says ICE policy is...](https://www.salon.com/2026/01/23/we-want-you-arrested-because-we-said-so-ex-judge-says-ice-policy-is-unconstitutional-partner/)** > > ICE’s policy on raiding whatever homes it wants violates a basic constitutional right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019.md?page=21)