Overview
- On his podcast with Sen. Rand Paul, Joe Rogan criticized ICE’s masked, militarized tactics and compared the agency to the Gestapo while questioning the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good.
- Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary for public affairs, pushed back, saying officials are targeting hundreds of jailed immigration violators and must deploy on the streets without local cooperation.
- McLaughlin argued that access to local jails would reduce ICE’s public operations and said the agency is focusing on suspects including those accused of violent and sexual crimes.
- DHS has surged roughly 2,000 agents to the Twin Cities under Operation Metro Surge with hundreds of arrests, and CNN reporting cited by the New York Post says another 1,000 officers are joining.
- Polling cited in the coverage shows 46% support abolishing ICE in an Economist/YouGov survey and 51% believe the agency makes cities less safe in an SSRS poll, while 9News reported new video of agents breaking a car window and detaining a US‑born woman.