The ICE Raids are Not About Immigration Enforcement. They Are About Racial Control.
opinion piece
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When Joe Rogan starts referring to the Trump regime as if they’re Nazis, you know ICE and the GOP have a problem. Yesterday, he said:
“Are we really going to be the Gestapo? Where’s your papers? Is that what we’ve come to?”
At the end of this month, funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out. Congress is going to have to act and that makes this a very important moment, politically.
The attraction of ICE to white supremacists — and now their open appeal to racists in their recruiting messages — didn’t start with George W. Bush adopting the word “Homeland” on October 8, 2001, the first time it’d been publicly used by a mainstream politician in American history. It arguably started on September 5, 1934, with a speech by Rudolf Hess, introducing Adolf Hitler at the Nurnberg Rally.
I have a weird connection to that speech, and it’s always haunted me. For more than half of my life I’ve been a volunteer for a German-based international relief organization that was founded by Gottfried Müller, who’d been an intelligence officer in Hitler’s army until he was captured in Iran and spent virtually all of WWII in a prison camp. There, he had a conversion experience and dedicated his life to helping “the least of the least of this world, as Jesus taught us.”
Müller told me how he was there for that Nuremberg Rally, in which Hess introduced Hitler with the following speech:
“ Danke irher Führung wird Deutschland sein Zeil erreichen. Heimat zu sein. Heimat zu sein für alle Deutschen der Welt . (“Thanks to your leadership, Germany will reach its goal: to be a homeland. A homeland to be for all Germans of the world.”)
This use of Heimat (“Homeland”) was intentional on the part of Hess and Hitler. “Homeland” suggested a racial identity, as Hitler noted in Mein Kampf when he speaks of the German people as a racial organism with the German land (Boden) and hereditarily German people (Volk) inseparable:
“The German Reich must gather together and protect all the racially valuable elements of Germandom, wherever they may be.” (Volume II, chapter 13)
As Herr Müller told me, Hitler wanted to create an identity that went beyond language and culture. He wanted to posit a pure “German race,” and have Germany be that race’s “homeland,” all so he could sell to the German people their own racial superiority and use that to justify exterminating others.
Throughout American history, our leaders have avoided that type of language:
— Thomas Paine wrote: “ The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”
— Abraham Lincoln said that our Founders had created: “ a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal… ”
— Woodrow Wilson used the word “democracy” instead of “homeland” during WWI: “The world must be made safe for democracy.”
— FDR simply used the name of our nation on December 7, 1941: “The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked… ”
Across 220+ years, during revolution, civil war, global war, and even the attack on Pearl Harbor, American presidents systematically avoided homeland-style language that implied ancestral ownership, ethnic belonging, or insiders versus outsiders.
Instead, they used words like: republic, nation, people, citizens, democrac y, and country to describe America. This wasn’t accidental: it was the core distinction between American civic nationalism, and 19th century European whites-only ethno-nationalism.
George W. Bush blew that all up when he announced the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. I immediately called it out, writing more than 20 years ago that using that word would lead America in a dark direction.
And here we are.
ICE is now openly using white supremacist slogans, memes, and advertisements to recruit men who’re enthusiastic about chasing down Black and brown people. As the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch project documents :
“The increase in white nationalist content [from ICE] appears to originate with a June 11, 2025 post. That day, DHS’ official X and Instagram accounts posted a graphic of Uncle Sam hammering up a sign with the caption: “Help your country … and yourself … REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS.” A hotline number for ICE accompanied the post.
“Mother Jones reported the doctored graphic of Uncle Sam originated from an X user called ‘Mr. Robert,’ who is associated with white nationalist content. Mr. Robert’s bio highlights the phrase: ‘Wake Up White Man.’
Since then, it’s been a nonstop barrage of white nationalist and Nazi rhetoric and symbology, as compiled by Dean Blundell .
Thanks to Dean Blundell for compiling these images
— Kristi Noem behind a podium with the words “One of ours. All of yours.” Malcolm Nance noted :
“This is the order to kill all the people in the village of Lidice in Czech Republic when the sadist SS General Heydrich was ambushed and killed by the British SOE. THEY ORDERED 173 MEN MASSACRED. ALL WOMAN AND CHILDREN SENT TO AUSCHWITZ WITH THESE WORDS.”
— The US Department of Labor posting an image of George Washington with the words: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage,” an eerie echo of “ Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer (One People, One Nation, One Leader).
— Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, who showed up in Minneapolis last week, photographed for the ICE/CPB website in nearly-full Nazi drag.
Others consistently feature white people with slogans or images appealing to a white supremacist or nationalist base:
As political scientist Dr. Rachel Bitecofer noted in her excellent The Cycle newsletter:
“‘We’ll have our home again’ is the emotional core of Great Replacement ideology, the white nationalist belief system that frames demographic change as dispossession and recasts the nation as something that has been stolen and must be taken back. This is the same worldview that produced the chant ‘You will not replace us’ at Charlottesville. The only thing that has changed is who is now saying it. …
“This ideology is not abstract. It has been articulated explicitly by mass shooters, embedded in white nationalist manifestos, and popularized by contemporary influencers who now operate openly in American political discourse. Figures like Nick Fuentes center their politics on the claim that the United States properly belongs to a single cultural and racial group, and that reclaiming it requires hierarchy, exclusion, and force.”
From Hess to Bush to Trump, here we are.
One of the regular themes of callers to my radio/TV show is the question:
“Are they hiding their faces behind masks so we can’t see that so many of these well-paid goons are open members of the Klan, Proud Boys, Patriot Front, Goyim Defense League, and J6ers?”
It’s as good an answer for the masks as any other I can come up with. Throughout American history, the only police agency known to conceal their identities were the Klansmen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when they were routinely deputized in the South to police segregation laws.
The police officers who murdered Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, for example, were all Klansmen, and that’s where Don Jr. went to give a speech on “states’ rights,” echoing Reagan’s first official speech on the same subject in the same place after he got his party’s nomination in 1980.
Yesterday, Congressman Jamie Raskin sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem asking if their “white nationalist ‘dog whistles’” are being used in their recruitment campaigns that appear to target members of “extremist militias” like the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Three Percenters:
“Unique among all law enforcement agencies and all branches of the armed services, ICE agents conceal their identities, wearing masks and removing names from their uniforms. Why is that? Why do National Guard members, state, county, and local police officers, and members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines all routinely work unmasked while ICE agents work masked?
“Who is hiding behind these masks? How many of them were among the violent rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6 and were convicted of their offenses? The American people deserve to know how many of these violent insurrectionists have been given guns and badges by this administration.”
Racism has been one of the animating themes of Trump’s three candidacies and two administrations; finally Americans and the mainstream media are waking up to it and calling it out.
We need a purge, and that begins by calling our elected officials at 202-224-3121 and telling them to vote “No” on funding DHS and ICE until there have been significant reforms.
Get rid of the masks and weapons of war. Require them to follow the law and the Constitution. No more arrests or home invasions without warrants signed by judges per the Fourth Amendment .
If America is a homeland, it’s only a homeland to the surviving Native Americans who Europeans haven’t entirely wiped out.
It’s far past time to end this use of white ethnonationalist rhetoric, rename the Department of Homeland Security, and purge that organization — and it’s ICE offspring — of their white nationalist bigots.
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A man on a horse? Really? Does anyone think that any of these gravy seals can get up on a horse and then control it?
What an absolute disgrace.
Kristi Noem had this slogan on her podium. What does it mean?
Why would a government official have that on their podium? Unfortunately our cowardly media never saw fit to ask her about that.
Because fools drunk with power don't think they are above the law, they believe that they are the law and it flows from them.
Who, Trump, Noem, Raskin, Bitecofer, Bovino, Bondi or Blundel?
Is hip hop culture part of that culture? How about gay culture? How about hispanic american culture?
Yup, complete gaslite nonsense. Nothing more.
Trying to cover up for the illegal immigration clusterfuk which was completely designed and orchestrated by the crazy progressive, left wing clown car driving the country the previous admins four years.
Shameless to say the least
There are still a few nie-blank here on NT who continue to spew MAGA lies. They mystify me.
Yes, many of the ”labeled”, are equally bemused by the chronically sophomoric here who insist placing labels on all not of like mind. Puzzling indeed …..
They irritate the fuck out of me only because I can't call them the names I want to
I'll do it for you.
They're fascists, racists, hate-mongers...
They're evil.
I want to say it directly to them but thanks!
Just don't get a ticket on my account
What are those MAGA lies you speak of?
See 7.1.1 for your response
What races are immune from federal law John?
Angry Caucasian wine moms?
Apparently.
That seems pretty much true, TBF.
Woodrow Wilson used the word “democracy” instead of “homeland” during WWI: “The world must be made safe for democracy.”
Is the author illiterate? Or does he assume his audience can reason its way out of a paper bag?
Whose culture does the Marlboro Man belong to?
Why does Noem have cryptic messages on her speaking podium?
Why did the Trump administration put out a series of posters by the Labor Dept where 95% of the images were of white men?
They either are appealing to the "replacement theory" crowd on purpose or they are too stupid to avoid doing it by accident.
Cowboy.
Why did the Trump administration put out a series of posters by the Labor Dept where 95% of the images were of white men?
I have no idea what posters the Labor Dept put out nor why anyone would care an iota of a percent about posters put out by the Labor Dept that almost no one would ever see.
hey either are appealing to the "replacement theory" crowd on
Is that bad again? Just last week or so progressives were bragging about replacing white people. Hard to keep up with how often progressives flip flop on it.
Must have missed that.
Why is Kristi Noem putting cryptic messages on her speakers podium ?
Kristi Noem behind a podium with the words “One of ours. All of yours.” Malcolm Nance noted :
Why are you posting blogs with made up nonsense?
One Of Ours / All Of Yours seems like a very odd thing to have on the front of a speakers podium.
Hey, Mavis Dinglefart, the protesters in Minneapolis are exercising their white privilege. The same white privilege that subjugated every Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow person in the country. That white privilege didn't need Congress or any big government to put their boots on the necks of every disadvantaged minority in the country. We know that is true because the disadvantaged minorities tell us so. At every opportunity.
The protesters (being white) are not burning their own home town this time. They're standing toe-to-toe with Big Government goons. They're taking the fight to where it belongs. The protesters in Minneapolis understand that Congress and the Democratic Party won't ride over the hill to help them out. The politicians will hide in the broom closet until the fight is over because they don't want to upset their billionaire donors on the east and west coasts. Minneapolis is just fly over country, after all.
The government won't solve this. The Democratic Party won't solve this. The disadvantaged minorities won't solve this. The privileged white people will have to fight this fight on their own.
Face it. In this case It’s white, female liberal privilege. Had this been a white male liberal, less privilege. Had this been a white female conservative, even less privilege. Had this been a white male conservative it would be the least amount of privilege.
That’s just how some operate these days.
Yes, progressives have brought back system where your rights are determined by your biology and commitment to mandated orthodoxy.
It's White privilege not to be shot by law enforcement.
Usually.
But not always.
Maybe one of the leftists here can identify a European country where there is a large amount of illegals in this country, especially one where those same people are defrauding Americans by the billions, financing terrorist organizations overseas.
If they do correctly identify one, I will be the first to demand they be deported.....and won't be a leftist and assault ICE if they do.
Yet another emoji when a coherent response is literally impossible.
He's being polite. I think he's trying to convey that your word salad made no sense.
so far, so good.
The European country or this country, maybe you meant that country?
Why would Europeans be defrauding Americans by the billions ( excluding Russians and other related Slavic criminal enterprises ) and financing terrorists?
Assuming, (I know, I know) you mean the Somalians in MN, all we have is the word of some muckraker Gotcha Journalist (like Veritas) who has exaggerated the fraud without any proof
and do you have proof they send money home to support terrorists, not family?
Assuming you mean the winning leftist?
What the fuck for, identifying a European country?
At this point I am beyond confused by whatever the hell you heard in your head and failed to write it out properly.
next time read it out loud and / or proof read it, please MC.
We deserve that much at least.
The misogyny up and down this seed is something to behold
Oh... Right. My list of descriptors was incomplete.
"Fascist, racist, misogynist."
Evil.