'This was bananas': Rachel Maddow floored by ICE raid gone 'horribly wrong'
By: Erik De La Garza (Raw Story)
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow unloaded on Trump-era immigration agents while blasting what she described as a bungled and militarized ICE raid in San Diego that left the community stunned.
"This was bananas," Maddow said during the opening minutes of her show Monday night. According to the MSNBC host, "multiple clown cars" of agents in "full battle rattle with helmets and long guns and flak jackets and goggles and masks" stormed a San Diego restaurant on Friday.
"Looking like they were going to rappel out of helicopters into the Tora Bora cave complex to fight al-Qaeda," Maddow told viewers. "These guys, dressed like this, run into a neighborhood Italian restaurant and reportedly handcuffed the entire crew working at the restaurant, everybody inside."
She said the raid ended with busboys and waiters arrested while stunned neighbors demanded answers.
"Unsurprisingly, the whole neighborhood came out to say, 'What the heck are you doing? Is this 'Red Dawn?' Are we being invaded? Wolverines! This is what you're doing to save us from the terrible menace of, like, the nice waiter at our favorite local restaurant?'"
"Trump's immigration agents had had no idea what to do," she added. Maddow concluded that the display in San Diego was "a show of weakness and cluelessness," and that the raid went "horribly wrong because this federal agency is clearly totally untrained for this work and is clearly out of its depth."
"Ultimately, these Trump immigration agents dressed up like soldiers, they made this San Diego street corner look like they were in a war zone because they were so completely unprepared and untrained and flummoxed by all of the neighbors and passersby, understandably yelling at them and telling them to leave people alone," Maddow said. "They were so scared and so unprepared and so untrained for this completely predictable situation, that they set off multiple what appeared to be these flashbang smoke grenades against the random neighbors in San Diego, against the people on the street who were outraged by what they had done, who were demanding that they identify themselves for one, and that for two, they get out."
She added of Trump's nationwide immigration crackdown: "Everyone in America hates it. Everyone hates what they're doing."
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if you want to only see the part pertaining to San Diego, start the video at 5:15
This is the sort of thing that Rachel Maddow does really well.
Lie?
: "Everyone in America hates it. Everyone hates what they're doing."
his approval on immigration is positive.
If you can watch this video and say this is the way to do this I would say you have a very high tolerance for incompetence.
To most people this is what authoritarian over reach must look like.
There is little doubt any more that there is a clownish aspect to these immigration raids.
Do you approve?
Of what? The policy of deporting illegal aliens? Yes, of course.
Congressmen attacking ICE Agents? No.
Is this the leftwing talking head at MSNBC who lied about trumps taxes? on the air with his taxes in her hand, she claimed he didn't pay anything..........except the 25 million in 1 year. The fact anyone still believes this lying "reporter' explains why thy left is so full of shit on so many issues.
Oh, I loved that. Imagine opening those up without knowing what she would find? They all thought he had to have done something wrong. Every day they make fools of themselves.
Assuming the claims in this seed are 100% true, do you approve of these actions taken by Trump's ICE?
You can't really ask such a question. During the insane over-the-top Mar-A-Lago raid you were silent.
Absolutely, these officers have every right to go home safe at the end of the day and they have no idea what they will find, where was your complaint about abuse of power when this happened?
Here they are arresting a 67 year old in full military gear.
What a ridiculous stupid argument.
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You also lack the credibility.
Dont expect an honest answer.
You think Trump has honest credibility, so you dont get to judge the credibility of anyone here.
I was not silent. I approved of the US government securing classified documents that Trump was hiding and was not cooperating in their safe return. They bent over backwards coddling Trump before they finally acted.
You think that was wrong yet support this act as correct. Completely backward suggesting blind partisan views.
Critical thinking does not work if partisanship destroys objectivity.
I did not ask if ICE officers should take precautions to remain safe. Obviously you are going to just deflect from my question.
Then you should have no problem with the same heavy-handed approach for everyone else.
City police, and even smaller police forces, go into more dangerous situations than this every day wearing nothing more than protective vests. The average domestic dispute call is more dangerous for the responding officers than these ICE raids are.
This has one purpose and one purpose only, to scare people (including the bystander citizens).
What a moronic comment, the police can't pre-prepare for a domestic call, but the police never pre-plan a raid and go in unprepared wearing just a vest, FFS they wear full riot gear every time liberals gather to whine about something because there is no predicting what the intolerant animals may do, you obviously have zero experience in law enforcement and are just posting bullshit comments.
Police do not go into pre planned raids wearing full riot gear unless they know the subject of the raid is armed and dangerous and a known criminal.
This show in San Diego was to scare people , including the neighborhood bystanders.
Your opinion with the benefit of zero years in law enforcement is noted.
How many ICE raids so far have been done by agents in military gear?
They are ramping up in order to tamp down protests of their actions.
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Wrong for the reasons I stated.
You have no argument, just one canned response after another. The fact that you just penned the bullshit ‘you were silent’ cliche when I was very vocal about the classified documents issue evidences this nicely.
You wrote pages and pages about it. I remember
Yes you droned on endlessly about it and continue to do so, but that isn't the point is it? the point is did they show up at Mara Lago in full gear. long guns bullet proof vests and helmets etc. on a site where there was zero risk to the officers?
No, the point is that they arrested a high-school junior with no criminal record, doing great in school and not causing any problems.
This is not a criminal, murderer, insane lunatic, this is just a normal kid.
Do you approve of the US government taking these actions against people like this kid?
Your transparent deflection aside, I will show you how to honestly answer a question. if you are here illegally I don’t care how they are dressed when they arrest and remove them. Full riot gear or in a pink tutu, as long as these criminals are removed.
Again you intentionally miss the point because you cannot admit that arresting a high school junior, honor student, with no criminal record is fundamentally wring.
Again you won’t answer or respond to Vics original message, and your comment is a lie in its face for everyone to see. If the the person arrested was here illegally than by definition they are a criminal.
Well, we finally agree on something. Maddow is the best crafter of narrative that the Left has, in my opinion. She's really good at making anything look like she wants it to look. When I first started paying attention to politics, I thought she was really great, until I started doing my own research. She's still great, just not in the way I thought she was in the beginning.
"She added of Trump's nationwide immigration crackdown: "Everyone in America hates it. Everyone hates what they're doing."
Same old idiot Rachel, making up shit and telling lie after lie after lie. She does this really well.
Patriotic and law abiding citizens love what's going on, the more of this scum caught and sent back the better, the ones that hate it are the illegals, the cartels, the smugglers, the foreign spies, the sex and child traffickers, and of course, the radical leftist apologists and supporters of an open border
Were these guys going to go in and shoot up a crowded restaurant and then the street outside in San Diego?
It sure looks like they were planning for it.
It would be stupid to not prepare for being attacked
I'm beginning to believe the left cares more about illegals and their safety than our men and women in blue.
Some one is going to get killed. It will most likely be an innocent bystander because I fear these so-called agents are trigger happy.
Trigger happy? Nah, I don't think so. Thiis is what the Democrat party has regressed to
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