# 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:** 27
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/521 "2026-02-03T08:06:11Z")
Soooo…my ruse has worked. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/522 "2026-02-03T12:35:16Z")
Oh he looks dangerous. It’s not even desperation anymore. The GOP is completely clueless. They don’t even know what Antifa means. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/523 "2026-02-03T15:16:42Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > … They don’t even know what Antifa means. That’s the beauty of terms like “Antifa” and “woke” — they’re so ill-defined, they can be used to target a particular audience’s _bête noire_. Nixon had something similar with his “silent majority”: since they were, by definition, silent, they could be made to say whatever he wanted them to say. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/524 "2026-02-03T15:23:47Z")
I, a leftist atheist, am still a card carrying member of the Moral Majority. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/525 "2026-02-03T19:08:19Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Nixon had something similar with his “silent majority”: since they were, by definition, silent, they could be made to say whatever he wanted them to say. “Many people are saying; coming up to me with tears in their eyes; strong men; experts/doctors are amazed; uncle at MIT…” ---
**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:** [February 3, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/526 "2026-02-03T21:14:58Z")
Now they’re arresting protestors just for following them. > **[Immigration agents draw guns, arrest activists following them in Minneapolis](https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-immigration-crackdown-arrests-29ab636ca0f7db5389418463ca8b67c7)** > > Immigration officers with guns drawn arrested some activists who were trailing their vehicles Tuesday in Minneapolis. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/527 "2026-02-04T00:57:22Z")
I guess they ran out of bear spray and “less than lethal” munitions. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/528 "2026-02-04T01:23:41Z")
Not just a “disease outbreak”, measles, the disease those same ghouls are trying to bring back. “Measles outbreak at Texas Children Concentration camp” is one of those headlines that would seem insane in 2015 and inevitable in 2017 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/529 "2026-02-04T19:52:43Z")
The kind of money ICE is getting, you’d think they would invest in uniforms for their troops. As is, they dress up in whatever is vaguely tactical, making it easier for real criminals to impersonate them. And, as if it matters, it’s kind of unprofessional. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/530 "2026-02-04T20:11:59Z")
I’m pretty sure this is intentional. Chaos is unprofessional. They want real criminals to impersonate them (hell, they hire them!). Why do you think they will start a civil war before they agree to not wear masks? Without masks, we’d know they’re staffed by criminals. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/531 "2026-02-04T20:26:23Z")
Or they could be wearing civvies so they can drop their gear and turn a protest into a riot. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/532 "2026-02-05T00:25:14Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > The kind of money ICE is getting, you’d think they would invest in uniforms for their troops. I suspect that given the insane scope that they are attempting, that money still isn’t enough for uniforms for everyone. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/533 "2026-02-05T00:34:42Z")
Also, [**Hugo Boss**](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-15008682) is _not_ cheap stuff. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/534 "2026-02-05T01:03:11Z")
That’s exactly what I think they’d buy with enough of a budget. They’d all look like Bovino. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/535 "2026-02-05T01:24:37Z")
> **[Oakmont Borough introduces resolution in the wake of ICE arrest](https://www.wtae.com/article/oakmont-leaders-a-stance-against-ice-engagement-newly-drafted-resolution/70240394)** > > Oakmont Borough Council took a stance against the recent presence of federal agents in the community by introducing a resolution Tuesday night. ICE is creating chaos in one of the Pittsburgh, PA communities near me. ICE abducted an Oakmont Bakery employee who is reportedly to be in the country legally. They took him in front of his daughter shortly before school. No warrant, same shenanigans as everywhere else. The city council is officially proclaiming some resistance. It is reported that the community will not participate with ICE. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/536 "2026-02-05T04:41:35Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > They still don’t have the first fucking clue what Antifa means. Well we are not a group. But we are against facists. That’s it, that’s the whole program. But I’m preaching to the choir here. That’s a large tent, there- “against fascists”. So you’d have to include the Allied armies of WW2. I’d say the more militant antifa people **do** have a clue what it means. They differ from non-militant people mostly in that their patience is wearing thin or has expired. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/537 "2026-02-05T06:36:53Z")
So…what _does_ “antifa” mean exactly? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/538 "2026-02-05T13:03:42Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > That’s a large tent, there- “against fascists”. So you’d have to include the Allied armies of WW2. I’d say the more militant antifa people **do** have a clue what it means. They differ from non-militant people mostly in that their patience is wearing thin or has expired. The red hats don’t have a clue what it means. I guess I wasn’t clear. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/539 "2026-02-06T05:12:40Z")
Amazingly, the Red Hats parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts were the original antifa. The countrysides in Europe have dozens of US cemeteries (well organized) honoring fallen US soldiers who came to their defense. The Europeans remember, the MAGAnuts are oblivious. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/540 "2026-02-06T13:42:56Z")
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