# 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:** 28
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/541 "2026-02-13T17:33:27Z")
It appears that ICE is pulling out of Minneapolis. Despite their blahblahblah, I’m sure it’s because of the really bad publicity they’re getting. It doesn’t mean they’re leaving completely, and I see where they’re terrorizing smaller towns now, like Coon Rapids (pop. 63K) which is a bit north of here. It’s where we got our cat. Fucking thugs is all they are. ---
**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 14, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/542 "2026-02-14T18:26:31Z")
I can’t believe they don’t get hit with paintballs. Or do they? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/543 "2026-02-15T11:53:01Z")
You would get your ass gunned down. With real bullets. ---
**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 15, 2026, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/544 "2026-02-15T12:07:15Z")
Not advocating it. I didn’t mean to imply that it would be a good idea. But with a spotter and a paintball gun with good range, the shooter could be well concealed. Just seems like something ne’er do wells would be doing. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/545 "2026-02-15T12:12:57Z")
Yeah, I’ve never shot one, but I doubt any would have enough range to keep you safe from these maniacs. ---
**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 15, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/546 "2026-02-15T12:21:37Z")
Just looked it up- 75 to 150 feet for accuracy, but much further if shot at an upward angle. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/547 "2026-02-15T12:26:13Z")
Frankly I’m surprised that they are still accurate after 75 feet. But, whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/548 "2026-02-15T12:35:54Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Not advocating it. I didn’t mean to imply that it would be a good idea. But with a spotter and a paintball gun with good range, the shooter could be well concealed. Just seems like something ne’er do wells would be doing. And if you used paintballs with UV dye in them, even after they think they’ve washed the paint off, it would make it a whole lot easier to find them off duty and ID them. Especially if you hit things like their shoes, which are probably the same shoes they wear regularly. Of course, that’s likely to back fire if/when any of that UV dye gets on non-ICE members (ie protestors, bystanders). > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Just looked it up- 75 to 150 feet for accuracy, but much further if shot at an upward angle. But since ICE agents tend to walk in groups, you don’t have to be that accurate. If you have 5 of them walking down a street, that’s a pretty big target. Aim for the center and you’ll probably hit someone even if you’re 5 feet one way or the other. ---
**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 15, 2026, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/549 "2026-02-15T17:00:24Z")
A guy faced jail for throwing a sandwich at ICE, remember. (The government failed the felony indictment attempt so took him to trial for a misdemeanor, and he was acquitted, but they were going to extremes.) ---
**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 15, 2026, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/550 "2026-02-15T19:25:46Z")
I’m so old that, when news reportage mentioned the Whipple Building in Minneapolis, I expected some wit to work in a reference to Charmin squeezing. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/551 "2026-02-15T21:30:45Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I expected some wit to work in a reference to Charmin squeezing. Like, maybe, Adam Savage? [![](https://www.grunge.com/img/gallery/the-untold-truth-of-adam-savage/dont-squeeze-the-charmin-1535736536.jpg) ](https://www.grunge.com/img/gallery/the-untold-truth-of-adam-savage/dont-squeeze-the-charmin-1535736536.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/552 "2026-02-15T23:39:51Z")
ICE is now literally ripping off Ted Bundy’s MO. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jllfioahisdzuxks7a4brj72/bafkreiffkdjnqkbjjrbyt7ftzaa3t7bisaiirlg724md2fp5x5oqcik5ym@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jllfioahisdzuxks7a4brj72/bafkreiffkdjnqkbjjrbyt7ftzaa3t7bisaiirlg724md2fp5x5oqcik5ym@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/553 "2026-02-17T02:32:22Z")
I just learned that ICE is planning to open a facility outside the small town of Oakwood, Georgia. That the infrastructure to support such an enterprise does not exist is going to be the least of their problems if it opens, in part because another source said that IT MAY HOUSE CHILDREN. FWIW, I just contacted the elected officials in this area; I feel that strongly about it. > **[Georgia town officials say they were blindsided by ICE detention center plans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UH3Syu8Uk%2F)** > > Officials in the small town of Oakwood, Georgia say they've heard little support to open a immigration detention center in the community, but some residents ... ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/554 "2026-02-17T13:08:13Z")
They are planning to open one right outside Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus MI. All the better to load detainees on the first available flight. Neither the mayor or Romulus nor the state senator knew of these plans beforehand. There’s a protest Monday. I’m going. > **[ICE purchases Romulus building, plans immigrant detention center](https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2026/02/16/ice-immigrant-detention-center-romulus-customs-enforcement/88703820007/?tbref=hp)** > > ICE said it has purchased a building in Romulus where it plans to open immigrant detention facilities. ---
**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 17, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/555 "2026-02-17T15:55:44Z")
I don’t understand the rationale for denying clergy, legal council, and elected officials from having free entry into these places. Of course they want their neglectful conditions to go unrecorded. I believe that the detention part of the business should be separate from the apprehension part and be closely monitored. They should never have more detainees than they can humanly house. And who is making sure that the children they round up aren’t just completely traumatized? ---
**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 17, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/556 "2026-02-17T16:45:58Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > And who is making sure that the children they round up aren’t just completely traumatized? They don’t give a shit about kids. Those kids are just pawns to use to attack their parents. That was made abundantly clear during Trump’s _last_ administration, when he was intentionally separating them from their parents as a key part of his immigration strategy. ---
**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 17, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/557 "2026-02-17T16:52:51Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > And who is making sure that the children they round up aren’t just completely traumatized? Pretty clear that this is ICE’s current order re children, _Make sure that the children we round up are completely traumatized._ ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/558 "2026-02-18T00:15:16Z")
Having aired this story on See-BS (OK, I still watch “60 Minutes”) just two days ago, you just know that the children are going to be separated from their parents, and likely each other, and not given age-appropriate food or medical care, or any education. It will probably make the border camps from a few years ago look like the Five Seasons. TL : DW - These three people are believed to be the youngest survivors of the death camps. Their mothers arrived pregnant and hid their pregnancies right to the very end, and they were born, under different circumstances in each case, just as the camps were being liberated in late April, 1945. None of their fathers survived. > **[The Holocaust's youngest survivors: Born in a labor camp, on a death train, in...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdkdenRs8bE%2F)** > > Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to concentrat... ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/559 "2026-02-19T01:04:38Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Pretty clear that this is ICE’s current order re children, > _Make sure that the children we round up are completely traumatized._ Yeah, scare them into staying away is a feature. Trump said as much. Regardless of your political stanch, harming innocent children of a certain group in order to motivate others in that group to change their behavior is pretty much the definition of terrorism. ---
**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 19, 2026, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019/560 "2026-02-19T01:07:20Z")
Remember, it’s Democrats and liberals that torture children to harvest adrenochrome . . . not that that should bring to mind a certain phrase. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-is-racist-fascist-lawless-and-running-concentration-camps/1025019.md?page=29)