IHIP News: Trump's ICE GESTAPO Wins More FUNDING With DEMOCRAT Votes as Children Are DETAINED!

What this episode is about

The discussion centers on the recent increase in ICE funding, supported by Democratic votes, amidst allegations of misconduct, including the homicide of a detainee and the detention of a young child in Minnesota. Critics argue that this reflects a larger pattern of government enforcement functioning as a "goon squad," while highlighting concerns over the treatment of asylum seekers and the implications for civil rights in the U.S.

Key takeaways

• Homicide in ICE custody reveals troubling depths of dehumanization in immigration enforcement—shocking yet sadly predictable.
• ICE's alleged use of children as bait raises ethical alarm bells; are immigrant lives just political pawns now?
• Democrats’ reluctance to challenge ICE funding highlights a party caught between morality and misguided appeasement of conservative narratives.
• Describing ICE as 'Gestapo' isn't hyperbole; it reflects widespread fear and highlights a breakdown in law enforcement ethics.
• Funding a transformed ICE risks creating a legacy that future generations will compare to historical atrocities—time to wake up!

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Liam Kjo Ramos, American Prospect, Steven Little Miller
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Vicente Gonzalez, Marie Perez, Henry Cuellar
3. 20:00 – 24:04: Steven Little Miller

Notable quotes from "IHIP News: Trump's ICE GESTAPO Wins More FUNDING With DEMOCRAT Votes as Children Are DETAINED!"

• Deportation directing that they be removed from the country. According to school officials, the boy was apprehended by immigration officials shortly after arriving home from…

  about Liam Kjo Ramos · at 1:52

• The headline is Jeffre won't whip vote against ICE funding. This is reporting from the American Prospect. Jonathan Conn tweets, Allowing swing district Democrats to vote for DHS funding so as not to look quote anti-law enforcement.

  about American Prospect · at 4:04

• Democratic appeasers that are voting for the American Gestapo. We have these seven Democrats voted with Republicans to approve an additional $10 billion in ICE funding. And I think that we should all say their names.

  about Marie Perez · at 6:30

• [ __ ] [ __ ] She voted to give that man more money, that organization more power. Vicente Gonzalez voted with the Gestapo. Tom Suis voted to appease fascists dictators mafia…

  about Vicente Gonzalez · at 7:22

• Up and watch the horror of the American federal government abusing citizens and abusing immigrants because 20% of the population and Stephen and Katie Miller think recreational…

  about Steven Little Miller · at 23:16

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Liam Kjo Ramos — Person · Referenced child at center of reported incident · 1 mention · first at 1:42
  Identified as the 5-year-old asylum seeker allegedly detained; serves as the emotional and moral centerpiece for condemning ICE enforcement tactics.
• Steven Little Miller — Person · Referenced political advisor (canonical spelling) · 2 mentions · first at 0:21
  Appears as a second entity likely duplicating “Steven Miller”; described as enjoying “recreational cruelty” and tied to harsh enforcement posture.
• Marie Perez — Person · Referenced member of Congress criticized for vote · 1 mention · first at 6:36
  Named as one of seven Democrats who voted with Republicans for additional ICE funding; singled out for condemnation and primary challenge threats.
• Vicente Gonzalez — Person · Referenced member of Congress criticized for vote · 2 mentions · first at 6:36
  Listed among the seven Democrats who voted for additional ICE funding; framed as enabling abuses and “appeasing” authoritarianism.
• Henry Cuellar — Person · Referenced member of Congress criticized for vote · 1 mention · first at 7:54
  Named among Democrats voting for additional ICE funding; used to argue party hypocrisy and lack of moral clarity.
  A reckless, lawless government organization, ICE. And Henry Queller, same thing. Doesn't give a [ __ ] Voted with all of these lawless hypocrites.

Media & podcasts

• American Prospect — Media · Referenced media · 1 mention · first at 4:04
  Cited as the source reporting on Hakeem Jeffries' decision not to whip votes against ICE funding, highlighting Democratic Party dynamics.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Yesterday, the Washington Post confirmed that the death of an ICE uh detainee in custody is a homicide, that the cause was suffocation. And we've also seen images all over Minnesota. We hear that ICE is already moving into Maine, as we all know, like Maine has some massive immigration problem. But it is very clear that Donald Trump and Steven Miller and JD Vance and Marco Rubio and all of the fake MAGA Christians want ICE to be Trump's Gustapo to terrorize United States citizens. Again, the point of this is to scare American citizens. We have an American government sending a goon squad on citizens. So what do we have here? We have the executive branch is all in on that. Of course we know little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson all in on that. Of course we know the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaaugh endorsed the Kavanaaugh rule that says that you can stop somebody based on their skin color. So who's going to

1:07 stand up for us? The Democrats. Right. So Ken Martin, the head of the DNC, tweets the following. ICE detained a 5-year-old child in Minnesota to use as bait. An innocent child. America, let this sink in. This is what the government is doing right now in front of our eyes. ABC reports the following. A 5-year-old asylum seeker detained as ICE expands enforcement in Minnesota. Local school officials said. The next slide. Look at this precious child. The family of 5-year-old Liam Kjo Ramos has a pending asylum case, but no order of deportation directing that they be removed from the country. According to school officials, the boy was apprehended by immigration officials shortly after arriving home from preschool while his father was in their driveway, officials said. Arriving home from preschool.

2:08 In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Homeland Security said ICE did not target a child. The child was abandoned. The statement added, "As agents approached, the driver fled on foot, abandoning his child. I believe the Department of Homeland Security is lying. They use this child as bait. Th this administration lies with impunity. And the purpose of this is de to dehumanize everybody. Dehumanize the guy that was killed in El Paso. dehumanized the mother of three that was shot in the face by a veteran training ICE agent that after he shot her three times and autopsy reports are showing the third shot was the lethal shot and denied her CPR to further dehumanize her. That murdering ICE agent called her a [ __ ] [ __ ] and now they're trotting around 5-year-olds. And so when I saw Ken Martin, the president of the the head of the uh DNC tweet that, I thought, "Okay, good. We got us

3:11 an opposition party here." Well, Hakeim Jeff says, "Ken, hold my beer." And Hakee Jeff has an opportunity to whip the votes into shape. And that's what a minority minority leader or majority leader does. They whip they whip the votes. And when you have a Gestapo unleashed on the streets of the United States of America, Democrats, you do not crowdsource morality on this. You have ICE agents terrorizing refugees. You have ICE agents killing American citizens. And think about all of the abuse and depravity that we are not seeing in these detention centers. We already know of a murder, a homicide down in El Paso. Put up Hakeim Jeff.

4:04 The headline is Jeffre won't whip vote against ICE funding. This is reporting from the American Prospect. Jonathan Conn tweets, "Allowing swing district Democrats to vote for DHS funding so as not to look quote anti-law enforcement feeds into the false narrative that ICE is enforcing laws rather than breaking them." It is an organized crime syndicate. And this is what pisses me off about the Democrats, the condescension, the duplicity, the double play. Our north star on this issue should be as follows. We learned our lesson of January 6 as a party. We cannot let criminals get away with crimes. And the president of the United States incited a riot, tried to overturn a free and fair election. And his supporters tried to hang his vice president. Zero accountability for him.

5:04 And look at how rapidly and unhinged and maniacal and criminal and diabolical the second regime is. But what are the Democrats doing? Appeasing. Hakeim Jeffrey said, "Oh, I've got a great idea. I think my voters are stupid. So what we're going to do is I'm going to say I'm going to vote no and the other big tough guy Democrats, I'm gonna allow them to vote no, but I'm not going to whip. And I'm going to allow you seven people to give these Democ to give these Republicans the money to fund ICE. And if you play this tape through 20, 30 years from now, the politicians that stand and say abolish ICE, no money, would age as well as if there was an opposition party to Hitler and brave a brave opposition party stood up and said no funding for the Gestapo. It's a crime syndicate. But the Democrats don't do that. And what the Democrats are learning now or not learning is that the base has moved. The base is on to how

6:10 they try to crowdsource the moralities. There's no northstar. That listen, the right is going to tell you that we're somehow anti-law enforcement. This isn't law enforcement. You don't. It's anti-American to turn federal government agencies against American citizens and put up here's the seven traitors, seven Democratic appeasers that are voting for the American Gestapo. We have these seven Democrats voted with Republicans to approve an additional $10 billion in ICE funding. And I think that we should all say their names.

6:47 We have Marie Perez. saw a five-year-old used as bait, saw um Renee Good executed, voted to give that organization more money. Jared Golden votes to appease a Nazi Gestapo, a lawless uh crime and disorder mafia style government run by a man with full-blown dementia. Laura Gillan, a woman saw the way a mother of three was killed, shot, executed, and called a [ __ ] [ __ ] She voted to give that man more money, that organization more power. Vicente Gonzalez voted with the Gestapo. Tom Suis voted to appease fascists dictators mafia crime bosses, murderers, abusers. Don Davis the same, voted to embolden and empower a reckless, lawless uh uh government organization, ICE. And Henry Queller, same thing. Doesn't give a [ __ ] Voted with all of these lawless hypocrites.

8:04 This is beyond the pale. This is a moment for the Democratic party to quit [ __ ] lying to us. We all know that the Republican party lies to their voters. They have told them for decades, for decades, oh, wealth will trickle down and we can't have regulations and we can't raise the minimum wage and you know, healthc care's complicated. And these people have been skipped over and skipped over and skipped over more insidiously, more manipulatively, the Democratic Party behaves as though they are the party of equality. Behaves as though they are the party of civil libert liberties. And here they have the perfect northstar.

8:48 We will not fund the increase in this federal government agency. Number one, because we know that the electorate doesn't like a big fat federal government. So Trump ran on not having a big fat federal government. Number two, this regime is using this agency to break the law, and we will not fund it. It doesn't mean we're anti-law enforcement. We stand with the police officers of Minnesota who said that these ICE agents are singling out offduty black and brown police officers, roughing them up and asking them for their papers. So you better bet your [ __ ] life the Democratic party is pro law enforcement. We stand with the police department of Minnesota. But do they do that? No. They think we're stupid. They think we're dumb. Hakee should have whipped and demanded the Democratic party vote as a complete opposition party to this. I think every single one of those seven Congress people needs to be primar and quite

9:50 frankly I think Hakee Jeff needs to be primar. This is unacceptable. People are getting terrorized by their government. This is banana republic, thirdw world [ __ ] And the Democratic party is going along with it and appeasing them and playing political theater so that this group of Democrats can have cover and this group of Democrats that are in moderate districts can appease. Well, let's see what the polling says. Let's see what the polling says about this. Um, Adam Carlson tweets, maybe the most insane finding in this poll. A majority, 51% of non-white college voters disapprove of how ICE is handling its job. You guys, 51% of white non-ol voters disapprove of ICE. This is a moderate to conservative position in the electorate. He goes on to say, white non-ol voters are one of Trump's strongest groups. They backed him in they backed him 66 to 32 in 2024 and gave him a 5741 job approval in this same poll. Sarah

10:56 Longwell says brutal new New York Times Sienna poll for Trump minus 16 net approval and only 32% of voters say the country is better off than it was a year ago. 51% of his premier base opposes ICE. So I ask all of those seven traders to the American idea to the Constitution that appeased Nazis. Who is this vote for? Who is it for? Are you just bought and paid for? controlled opposition because even the MAGA base who you always try to plate to and confirm their uh biases about issues even they don't approve of ICE. So I'm just curious like as we're all sitting out here dying for an opposition party.

11:52 Who is it? Because it's not Hakee, it's not Chuckles, it's not those seven. Who who is the opposition? And time and time again we go back that it's us, the people. We need to flood the uh Capitol phone lines that this is absolutely unacceptable. Those seven people plus Hakee Jeff for not whipping the votes is the most unacceptable thing I have seen. I expect everything that this administration is doing. I expect it. I refuse to get on this microphone and act shocked. I'm not going to after 10 years. I'm not going to do that to you all anymore. This is what this admin administration does.

12:32 They wake up, diminish, demean, dehumanize people, abuse people, uh, rape and pillage the rule of law, parade around a man with full-blown dementia on TV and then say, "Yeah, we're going to keep maming. Get over it." So, they're going to do that all day, every day. But what is the opposition going to do? Seriously, what are they going to do? What they're going to do is they're going to play patty cake and manipulate it and think, present to the base. Oh, the majority of the Democrats voted against it, but these seven people didn't. Hakee could have whipped those seven votes, but they made a backroom deal. They made a backroom deal to dick over the American public and to appease Donald Trump. Donald Trump who was dogwalked by Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump that lies and says it's an America first agenda and sends Argentina $40 billion.

13:29 uh placed patty cake non-stop with Benjamin Netanyahu who rolled out his big plans to develop Gaza on a grave site of a genocide and the Democrats don't have the moral clarity to stand up against it's just it it I mean I I just feel like we're cooked if the Democrats if Hakeim can't whip the votes on that we're abolishing ICE not funding ICE is a moderate American position right now. All right. And moving along here, ICE for the last week was parading around uh Greg Bevino that there were all of these pedophiles on the loose and uh sexual assault offenders on the loose. And I want to say very clearly, I think every pedophile and every sex offender should be rounded up by law enforcement starting at the White House and then trickling down to the January 6 people that were pardoned that keeper recommitting crimes. I think that uh it's it is a universal viewpoint with the exception of Moses Mike Grinder

14:37 Johnson and some others in Congress that everybody opposes pedophilia and thinks that these people should put behind bars. I know the Democratic position is that. I know the Republicans are kind of eh on that. But anyway, they justified terrorizing more people, spraying pepper balls in uh people's faces uh using a 5-year-old for bait um because they claimed that these protesters were preventing them from picking up a child rapist. And it's important to point out that I showed you that poll about how unpopular ICE is, but their unpopularity is only superseded by their breathtaking incompetence. Kylie, pop this up. Sam Stein reports, "Incredible. The sex criminal migrant who I said is on the loose, the one they were supposedly looking for when they burst into the house of the frail guy in his shorts, was in jail the entire time this reporting came from the bull work target of viral botched ICE raid was already in

15:40 prison. And what do the Democrats do? I'll tell you what. We'll find seven people to vote with the fascists and the Nazis and the incompetent pink arm, low tea, emotionally stunted psychopaths. We'll have seven people appease them and the rest of us can look like we're tough guys. And Hakee, I'm sorry, but leadership starts at the top. And you should have whipped every single one of those votes. The American public is dying for leadership and you and Chuckles are simply every single time falling flat. And you may win the midterms, but it's going to be despite yourself. It's going to be because Donald Trump is so bad. But all of us out here in the what remain in the independent parties and Democratic parties are going to get rid either this cycle or the next of beholden corporate Democrats that play patty cake and vote to appease murderous abusing fascists.

16:45 That's going to happen because we care about this country and we care about human beings more than we do your corporate donors. Period. And then lastly, I want to play this for you. This struck my attention. Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green, JD Vance, as ISIS doing all of these things, you have to understand how propaganda works. There is ambient propaganda that helps dehumanize and diminish the humanity of fellow human beings. And a lot of their messaging is overtly white nationalist and covertly white nationalist. In this video that I'm about to play of Tucker Carlson, this is the ambient white supremacy and the ambient white nationalist nationalism that acts as a soothing balm for the uh Fox News freebasers that sometimes need to hit the harder stuff that need to hit a heavier hit of something. And this type of propaganda helps feed the dehumanization of that 5-year-old little

17:51 boy of the uh murder of Renee Good because they use just straight up nivism, tribalism, and racism as a soothing bomb for many people in this country. And here is Tucker Carlson trying to scare you about uh the disappearance of white people. Play the clip.

18:17 So, here's what they were. The biggest city in the United States then and now was New York City. New York City in 1950 was 90% white. 71 million New Yorkers out of 7.9 million were white. Chicago in 1950 was 86% white. Philadelphia over 80%.

18:37 Okay, leave that up. And then as you notice, Elon Musk retweets this and he put, "Whites are a rapidly dying minority." The fact that they sit around and think about this, number one, is just jarring and unbelievable and so antiquated and such a um almost iron age way of thinking, but it is very real. And when you have even minorities in the MAGA movement, the Tay brothers, Nick Fuentes, and others that also help promote this white supremacy. It reminds me of how the Democrats failure to whip that vote also appease to this. So, it's like at every turn, the patriarchy gets deference, white supremacy gets difference. And I want to say to every black and brown American, to every LGBTQ plus American or immigrant that's here legally or illegally, this type of language offends me. I am not threatened by your being in the United States of America. I don't care what percentage of what city is white

19:54 versus black. I would also argue that all of those cities that he lists that now have a minority white population economically kick the ass of any all white county in the United States tenfold. That multiculturalism not only makes us better, more compassionate, more empathetic, but to my fiscal conservative watchers, it's better for the economy. And so this ambient racism and this ambient propaganda of Tucker Carlson amplified by the world's richest racist fascist Nazi, Elon Musk, goes handinhand with what's going on with ICE. This type of propaganda is played in conjunction with people seeing egregious human rights violations. a 5-year-old boy with a cute little beanie on with little ears used as bait by ice.

20:50 I would think that even maybe the um most horrific racist grandmother sitting somewhere might see that and go, I don't I don't know if I like that. But then you have to have Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk and Jesse Waters talking about white people are disappearing. So what if we do? I mean, at some point before Americans were here, before European immigrants were here, nobody in North America was white. I mean, advance 300 years from now in the history books and us clinging on to this tribalism is going to be obsolete.

21:28 Like, it it it's utterly insane. And I want to remind you that all of those white people, all of them enjoy multiculturalism. It's not like you see them consuming only white sports or only listening to white musicians or only watching television and films with only white people. They don't. It's not like they only eat at American greasy spoon diners. They don't. They enjoy multiculturalism. And that's the coolest part of American culture is that we are a multicultural society. And it is the one thing that really pisses off these racists. It's the one thing when they see women doing well, but more importantly, when they see black people having something that they think should be theirs, when they see immigrants having something that they think should be theirs, that racism is just it it has a Pavlovian effect on them and they just feed it, nurture it, rock it, console it. And we have to have an opposition

22:32 party. I am begging Hakee Jeff. I am begging Chuck Schumer, be an opposition party. Look in the camera and speak clearly to the American people. Don't word salad it. Simply say, "Our northstar is this. ICE is fooar. ICE is reckless. ICE is breaking laws. ICE is murdering American citizens. We are pro law enforcement. We stand with the Minneapolis Police Department. We do not support this racist regime and we will not fund it because we back the blue and we back you. [ __ ] say it. Do it. Whip the votes. This is serious. Every single day I get up, all of our listeners get up and watch the horror of the American federal government abusing citizens and abusing immigrants because 20% of the population and Stephen and Katie Miller think recreational recreational cruelty is fun. We don't. We don't. We care about this country and we want leaders that do too. quit playing patty cake with fascists and either start whipping

23:40 the votes or sit down and get out of Congress. You're not fit to lead because we can't take it anymore. All right, that's all I have. Please like, subscribe, comment. Unfortunately, I'll probably be back with more disappointing news.

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What is "IHIP News: Trump's ICE GESTAPO Wins More FUNDING With DEMOCRAT Votes as Children Are DETAINED!" about?

The discussion centers on the recent increase in ICE funding, supported by Democratic votes, amidst allegations of misconduct, including the homicide of a detainee and the detention of a young child in Minnesota. Critics argue that this reflects a larger pattern of government enforcement functioning as a "goon squad," while highlighting concerns over the treatment of asylum seekers and the…

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