Trump supporters: ICE will come for you, too.
ICE was never about crime.
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Trump supporters, ICE will come for you, too. Maybe you’re last on the list, but you’re on it. Hear me out.
What if ICE isn’t about crime? What if ICE is a tool for the 1%, being used to get one half of working people to hate the other half, while billionaires (and Epstein people) protect themselves and take total control?
The super-rich and their politicians built ICE, funded ICE, and sent it into communities where it killed people who have the same problems you do.
Then they watch you fight your neighbors about it. And I’m sure they laugh, because you let them into power based on a story they just made up.
If the super-rich were honest about what they want, I don’t think anybody would let them run the country. They want you to work forever, rent everything, and be too desperate to step off the hamster wheel and change anything.
That is by design, and it’s working well: 6 in 10 people in the richest country ever are paycheck to paycheck.
And that prints money for the rich because while everyone is trying to survive, they BOUGHT the stock market. 93% of stock market wealth belongs to the top ten percent. That means you go to work, and they make the BIG money.
But if you focused on that, the rich probably wouldn’t stay in power. So they made up a story for you to believe. They said the problem is: immigrants, trans people, woke, DEI, CRT — anyone but the rich and their greed.
Then they said, “ We’re gonna make ICE and go fight those monsters that we told you about. These liberal pussies are gonna cry about it. And you’re gonna love it.”
But no one is buttering your bread, man. The people ICE is killing and terrorizing are locked out of power, just like you, just like me.
And as it gets harder for you or your kids to “live the American Dream”, you’ll do one of two things. Either shut up and wave the flag as it gets really ugly, or you might hit the streets…
Where you will learn that this standing army, that plays by its own rules, that answers to the president (who answers to billionaires), was actually for you too. The story they made up was bullshit. And you bought it.
Don’t find out the hard way that you’re on the list, too. If any part of you didn’t like what you saw in Minneapolis, really ask yourself if the rich people controlling ICE give a shit about your life. I promise you they don’t.
Further Information:
On ICE detaining people with no criminal record: Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention: Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges. The Guardian. September 2025.
On ICE detaining U.S. Citizens: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. Pro-Publica. October 2025.
On ICE killing and injuring people: A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured. ICE doesn’t share its violent incidents with the public. So here’s our list. The American Prospect. January 2026.
On immigrants abiding by the law more than US-born people: Law-abiding immigrants: The incarceration gap between immigrants and the US-born 1970-2020. Stanford University. July 2023.
“As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60% less likely to be incarcerated (30% relative to US-born whites).”
On Epstein meeting with the guy who founded the place where Q ANON swirled together and blamed the elite pedophile ring on… not Epstein and his friends: The New Epstein Files Are Reopening the Pizzagate Box. Vanity Fair. February 2026.
On Marjory Taylor Greene saying the quiet part out loud: MAGA is a lie.
Housekeeping:
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Pretty interesting but as a WVian in skilled labor I still want these people out. Yes we have a lot of issues in this country with our own people but that doesnt mean we should be flooded with people that see us an economic zone and not a country with values and a culture. As far as elites go you can make the case theyre behind the immigrant invasion. Wall Street sees it as a win for them the more heads this country has in it. I always remain skeptical of all government actions but first immigrants need to go then there needs to be accountability for all the publicly traded companies that have screwed the American middle class worker not to mention insurance companies and usury from the banks. I want all heritage Americans including white black brown pink green or whatever to be taken care of first. That will not happen if they bring a whole new voting block in to replace us. Not that voting or democracy has really gotten us very far lately but that’s a whole other topic.
For real. https://indi.ca/americans-overthrow-america/