Fury as ICE agents fire tear gas on street preparing for children’s Halloween parade
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/ice-tear-gas-chicago-residents-kids-video-b2852715.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/ice-tear-gas-chicago-residents-kids-video-b2852715.html
60 Comments
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 120 pts · 313d
ICE is a wasteful “make work” jobs program for racist losers and dumbasses who can’t get one or hold one down anywhere else. It has ZERO return on investment. They can’t even accomplish a small fraction of their stated task. In fact, the entire DHS, including TSA and ICE is provably redundant, incompetent, and corrupt. (The OTHER reason these agencies were created was to hand out huge government contracts to assholes like Michael Chertoff)…
We don’t need these fucking people, and these agencies should be disbanded. The personnel should be trained to do construction, and they should be centrally employed by the government to build federally funded hospitals in rural communities (instead of shutting most of them down due to Medicaid cuts), and repairing the roads and bridges that are collapsing all over the country, as we see now n multiple headlines a year.
Make ‘em build houses. Call it “Department of Housing Security”.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 313d
I think ICE, with its astronomical budget, has two main functions for MAGA: to embezzle state funds, for example through private prison companies, and to set up a secret police force loyal to the regime.
Incidentally, as of November 15, the military will no longer be paid, which I would say fits in with the picture - but hey, private patrons are stepping in and distributing money "without any strings attached"...
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 312d
One private patron stepped up n to donate $130 million to pay the troops, which works out to about $100 each. So, basically ramen noodles for a month.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 312d
More will certainly want to buy in.
It is also in the regime's interest for soldiers to be dissatisfied with ramen noodles instead of wages, because ICE has a budget that corresponds to the military spending of medium-sized countries now: Either soldiers with a fitting fascist mindset can be poached, and/or the military can be weakened as a potential opponent in the establishment of a dictatorship (no pay = layoffs, and these will mainly be people who have a problem with an autocratic America under an orange dictator).
I'm not from the US, but it all looks pretty grim to me.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 311d
Ice apparently has the 8th largest budget in militaries around the world. Gonna say it goes US, China, Russia, UK, Germany, India, France, Ukraine maybe (off the top of my head). Israel might be in there instead now too.
They are trying to be a private army for MAGA, along with the aforementioned grift payouts to prison companies.
modus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 312d
It was Tim Mellon.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 312d
"Okay, TommyBoy - you don't mind if I call you TommyBoy do you? Of course you don't - so TommyBoy, here's what we're going to do. You're going to pay $130 million to pay our troops enough to buy some ramen soup for a month, and I'm going to give you ANYTHING you want. Hell, I just gave Argentina $40 billion, instead of health care for Americans, just so the SecTreas' friends wouldn't go belly up in their irresponsibly risky investment with a country that goes bankrupt every 3.5 years."
"My name is Timothy."
"What? No, it's TommyBoy now. So whaddaya say, TommyBoy, you in?"
"Sure, whatever you say, Your Excellency."
Furbag@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 312d
ICE is full of DEI hires. Or as I like to call them, DUI hires.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 312d
Or as I like to call them, Morons
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 312d
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 6 pts · 312d
One of the best lines in a movie to one of the most genuine laughs out there.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 312d
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social · 13 pts · 313d
The state that they claim is a shit hole (Illinois) has some of the best infrastructure in the country despite having one of the most challenging climates for it. And it's only gotten better in the time since Pritzker took office. Crazy what progressive policy can do for the collective.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 312d
sue_me_please@awful.systems · 7 pts · 311d
They signed up to brutalize brown people, not build houses.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 311d
Perhaps they’ll accept a work detail in exchange for shortened prison sentences
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 312d
Construction? These people have no physical fitness whatsoever. That is a physically demanding job that they cannot do.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 312d
Ice agents: "Fuck those kids"
Republican lawmakers on the scene: "Do you think we have time?"
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 312d
*them kids. Wouldn't want to think they use proper grammar!
tatterdemalion@programming.dev · -3 pts · 312d
Let's stop referring to AAVE as "improper".
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 312d
You ever been to the South? "Them kids" is not the purview of AAVE.
tatterdemalion@programming.dev · -1 pts · 312d
If it's that prevalent, is it really improper at this point?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 312d
If the term "proper" bothers you, feel free to replace it with "standard" or "formal."
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 312d
I hope Democrats realize that if they ever get back into power there will be an Epstein list situation where liberals demand the ICE payroll to be released so these traitors can't exist among us without repercussion and if they don't release it they'll be hearing "Why are Democrats protecting Nazis" just like we're hearing "Why are Republicans protecting pedophiles" right now.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 26 pts · 312d
Every last one of them needs a felony sentence. We don't need worthless dirt bags like that walking free and able to fully participate in society.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 312d
Yep.
Every future employer needs to know. It needs to be factored in for every social program they attempt to take advantage of. These are traitors violating our Constitutional rights. They should not be allowed to exist in America without repercussions.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 311d
Good thing for them they're doing everything in their power to prevent everything that you ever wanted from taking place and eliminating anybody with these opinions and the opinions themselves.
FE80@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 311d
girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 311d
Its easy to support it when you control it. I doubt that cycle will end if Dems get control again.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
I want every last one prosecuted to the full extent of the law
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
Liberals are spineless though
SassyRamen@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 313d
Fuck those terrorist. Americans need to take America back!!!!
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 312d
Saving the children as usual
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 23 pts · 313d
Where was the teargas? Am i blind?
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 313d
The visible clouds must have blown away by the time this news team started their video, but it's clearly visible in the photo on top of this article discussing the same incident -
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/26/northwest-side-ice-arrests-tear-gas (arc)
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 313d
Thanks :)
Exeous@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 313d
I not see tear gas in video.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 313d
Yeah, also that dog seems very calm if he has tear gas in his eyes/nose
gmtom@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 313d
And no one doing a damn thing to stop them.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 312d
Because America hates brown people more than they love their children.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 312d
Things Americans love
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 4 pts · 311d
Turns out all these good guys with guns who protect the country are really busy.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 311d
This but unironically. They fucking hate their children.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 313d
Don't worry, in a couple more months they'll have another No Kings parade. That ought to do it.
You've got to step your shit up, America.
shane@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 311d
The entire neighborhood was literally opposing ICE.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 2 pts · 311d
Some people expect moms and dads to just start shooting heavily armed officers and get themselves killed immediately as soon as they see something they don't agree with. If they don't do it they "don't do anything".
gmtom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 311d
Opposing them by doing what?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 312d
Is there a video? I hate these websites that show a picture you can't click. Give me a break...
Video: https://youtu.be/pB5yJHYzga4
KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 313d
Why would you share this video but beep out the fucks.
Anyway, you can shout all you want but at some point you got to get serious about the resistance.
I wonder when Americans are going to wake up.
#FrogsSlowlyBoiling
sourhill@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 313d
What would you do, specifically?
lostlittletimeonthis@lemmynsfw.com · 11 pts · 313d
Well you obviously can't do direct violence, but organized sabotage ,bribery would probably work on these morons, they drive everywhere, stake out their main departure points, get some construction signs, setup fake detours drop tyre busters , grease up their exits as much as possible, get paint on their windshields when they get out to chase people, get stink bombs on their vehicles or clothes...but you will need volunteers and a loose organization
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 312d
I recommend painting an image of a tunnel on a wall so they drive into it.
Just don't try to enter yourself if they somehow do first!
regedit@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 312d
This sounds like a job for Mark Rober!
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 313d
I dont belive in hell, but I hope that it exists for these fucks to go rot in (the ice losers obviously)
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 313d
It doesn't. Make them suffer for their crimes now and stop hoping some magical entity will get them good someday. Rise up America, before your cou try is gone for good. It may already be too late...
apftwb@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 312d
ICE is protecting our community from aliens, demons, ghosts and Wednesday Adams.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 311d
Fester Adams is the real menace. He robbed a bank 3 times last month!
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 312d
oh, i thought they were just making halloween extra spoopy /s
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 311d
Nope, just poopy.
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 312d
Manjushri@piefed.social · 5 pts · 311d
During same incident: 67 year old US citizen dragged from car and beaten by ICE. Left with 6 broken ribs and internal bleeding.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 313d
So only tricks, but no treats?