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FL DSA Candidate Angie Nixon Compares ICE Agents to ‘Modern-Day Slave Catchers,’ Calls Enforcement ‘State-Sanctioned Violence’

Florida Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon has repeatedly attacked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), calling its officers “THUGS” and “kidnappers,” comparing immigration detention facilities to a “modern day concentration camp,” and arguing that the agency should be abolished as she campaigns against incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL).

Nixon, a Florida state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has made abolishing ICE a central part of her immigration platform. In one post, she referred to ICE officers as “THUGS.” In another, she called abolishing ICE a “moral choice” and said the United States must stop funding an agency that “terrorizes our neighborhoods, acts like a rogue paramilitary force, and operates completely in the dark.”

Nixon described ICE enforcement as “state-sanctioned violence” and has characterized the agency as a “weaponized paramilitary force that is designed to terrorize.”

In a clip, Nixon referred to ICE officers as “kidnappers” while advocating that agents be unmasked. She has also compared immigration detention facilities to a “modern day concentration camp” — a characterization she later doubled down on — and compared ICE agents to modern-day slave catchers.

Nixon has even insinuated that ICE agents might be shot: “We are a stand your ground state…I am concerned that some ICE officials might be shot.” 

She has also argued that ICE officers would racially profile and fatally shoot black Americans and said she wants “bad actors” investigated, arrested, and jailed.

“We’re black. They gonna profile us, too. They can’t tell the difference between a black American that is a descendant of slaves here in this country or someone from Jamaica or Nigeria. They are going to racially profile us and they are going to escalate things and they are going to shoot and kill us,” Nixon said.

“And they are going to get away with it unless we send people like me to Washington, DC, who are going to scrutinize and launch investigations to go after bad actors. To arrest them and to put them in jail and to call for an end and an abolishment of ICE,” she continued.

“We don’t need ICE. ICE was designed — ICE came about after the towers went down, after September 11th, and it came about to evoke fear and to target and to profile the Muslim community. It has now morphed into this agency that goes after immigrants, that demonizes immigrants,” Nixon added.

Nixon has also said Republicans are “literally trying to kill us” while discussing ICE enforcement.

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The Gloves Are Off: ICE, Electric Shock Weapons and Secret Police

“Electric shock has long been a common method of inflicting torture or other forms of ill-treatment worldwide. While electric shocks are sometimes inflicted using makeshift equipment—for instance, car batteries, mains wires or cattle prods—a wide variety of electric shock devices are specifically designed for and marketed to law enforcement.”—Amnesty International

This is what comes of giving a lawless agency unlimited funds to build detention centers, terrorize communities, and act as a secret police force.

Anything goes.

Masked raids. Unmarked vehicles. Warrantless arrests. Racial profiling. Sweeping surveillance. Detention camps. Excessive force. Citizens dragged off the streets. Protesters targeted. Congressional oversight obstructed. Government agents operating behind masks while refusing to identify themselves or explain the authority under which they act.

Now add electric shock gloves to the arsenal.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to spend as much as $20 million to equip its agents with thousands of gloves capable of delivering painful electric shocks through direct contact with a person’s skin.

The devices are called G.L.O.V.E.s—Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters—and the government has dressed them up in the predictably sanitized language of the police state as “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices.”

Don’t be fooled by the benign-sounding euphemisms.

These are pain-compliance weapons.

ICE agents wearing the gloves will be able to touch a person’s exposed skin and deliver an electric shock intended to compel obedience.

White House border czar Tom Homan has been remarkably candid about the purpose: “It’s another device to help someone get compliant when they are not.”

There is that word again: compliance.

It has become one of the most dangerous words in the vocabulary of the American police state.

Increasingly, government agents are being taught—and the public conditioned to accept—that refusal to immediately comply with a government agent’s command is sufficient justification for force.

Question an officer. Hesitate. Pull away. Protest. Demand to know why you are being detained. Refuse to surrender your phone. Attempt to record an arrest. Insist on your constitutional rights. Fail to obey quickly enough.

The government’s answer is increasingly the same: comply or die—comply or suffer the consequences.

Now those consequences may come through the touch of a gloved hand.

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ICE Proposes Insurance Coverage For Local Officers Involved In Immigration Arrests

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has proposed an insurance plan to shield local police officers involved in immigration arrests from financial liability if they face allegations of misconduct during those arrests.

A proposal document published Aug. 14 by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shows the agency intends to pay for liability insurance coverage for state and local law enforcement officers who are trained to perform immigration officer functions.

The plan would allow officers to purchase up to $500,000 in professional liability insurance, which typically covers financial losses, legal defense fees, settlements, and judgments. Officers would be reimbursed up to $250 each year for insurance costs, according to the document.

The proposal also states that ICE intends to hire a contractor to provide outreach, training, and support to its 287(g) partners. The contractor would also be tasked with coordinating professional liability insurance coverage and reimbursement for law enforcement officers, according to the document.

The 287(g) program is a federal partnership that allows ICE to delegate authority to state and local law enforcement officers to perform specified immigration officer functions, including identifying and processing removable illegal immigrants who have criminal charges.

ICE is seeking industry feedback on the proposal by Aug. 20, according to the DHS’s notice.

The proposal comes as the Trump administration has intensified its immigration enforcement efforts nationwide, with ICE playing a major role.

A notice published on Aug. 10 by DHS showed that ICE also planned to provide its agents new gloves, known as CTG-5 G.L.O.V.E, or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, which can deliver electric shocks.

A DHS spokesperson told The Epoch Times by email on Aug. 12 that ICE aims to ensure that its officers have the tools and equipment they need to safely arrest and remove “criminal illegal aliens” from the country.

“Every decision is made with careful consideration and appropriately reviewed to ensure that any technology ICE utilizes is consistent with all applicable law enforcement policies and standards,” the spokesperson said.

“Our officers are highly trained in de-escalation tactics and regularly receive ongoing use of force training.”

The Democratic National Committee’s Resolutions Committee on Aug. 13 approved a resolution that calls for the abolition of ICE. The resolution cited the deaths of ICE detainees and allegations of poor conditions at detention facilities.

Natalie Baldassarre, the national press secretary for the Republican National Committee, criticized the resolution, saying that Democrats should prioritize the safety of Americans. Baldassarre also said the Trump administration’s enforcement efforts have mostly targeted illegal immigrants accused or convicted of crimes.

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The DNC Just Made Abolishing ICE Official Party Policy

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has formally backed a resolution calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Newsweek reports that DNC members approved the measure Saturday during the party’s summer meeting in Austin, Texas, calling on congressional Democrats to pass legislation eliminating ICE and winding down the federal immigration detention system.

The resolution also calls for withholding Department of Homeland Security funding unless the administration ends a series of enforcement practices, including workplace raids, large-scale roundups and arrests at courthouses and ICE check-ins.

It additionally demands the closure of immigration detention facilities, the termination of private detention contracts and the release of most immigration detainees while their cases proceed.

The vote makes abolishing ICE a position formally endorsed by the DNC, although it does not amend the Democratic Party’s official national platform.

“Our official party positions are determined at the convention every four years in our platform,” said DNC Chairman Ken Martin.

“However, clearly, the one thing that unites Democrats, regardless of their position on reform versus abolish or whatever other ways to change what’s happening, is people believe that what ICE is doing right now and CBP and the federal government should stop.”

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ICE refuses to disclose records on Ilhan Omar fraud probe, cites ongoing ‘enforcement proceedings’

The federal government is refusing to turn over records related to an investigation conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement into allegations of immigration fraud by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., citing a legal exemption for ongoing investigations. 

Just the News filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the records in January, seeking the records pertaining to any investigations conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement into the allegations that Rep. Omar, who represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, married a relative in order to help him remain in the country. 

Omar has denied the allegations. No court records, DNA evidence, or other documentary proof has ever substantiated that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, Omar’s legal husband from 2009–2017, was her biological brother.

“ICE has determined that the information you requested is being withheld in full pursuant to Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(A). Disclosure of any responsive records at this time could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings,” ICE told Just the News in response to the FOIA in May. 

The FOIA exemption cited by the agency “applies to records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes when their release could disrupt such proceedings,” the reply reads. 

You can read the letter below: 

Final Response 2026-ICFO-11295 3 (1).pdf

The Department of Justice guidelines for invoking exemption 7(A) say that doing so requires a two-step assessment. “First, there must be a ‘reasonable likelihood’ of a pending or contemplated law enforcement proceeding,” the guidance says. “Second, release of the information must be reasonably expected to cause some articulable harm to that proceeding.” 

Harm includes things such as exposing the case to witness tampering or tipping off suspects, according to the guidance. The exemption makes no distinction between criminal, civil, and administrative cases. 

Omar’s office did not respond to a request for comment. 

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ICE to Equip Agents With Electric-Shock Gloves to Safely Subdue Violent Suspects

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to equip its officers with specialized gloves capable of delivering an electric shock to help subdue violent or resisting suspects.

According to a Department of Homeland Security notice reported by the Associated Press, ICE plans to spend up to $20 million purchasing thousands of the devices for deployment early next year.

Known as the G.L.O.V.E. (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter) the technology is manufactured by Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies and has already been used by some police departments and correctional facilities.

The equipment functions as an ordinary pair of patrol gloves until an officer activates its electrical capability.

The glove must make direct contact with a person’s skin to deliver a brief but painful electrical stimulus designed to gain compliance.

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ICE faults Biden-era policies for third illegal entry by man convicted in Marine’s 2017 killing

An illegal immigrant who was deported twice and on his third illegal entry, was convicted of an automotive offense that killed a U.S. Marine is in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and heading toward a third deportation.

Martin Martinez-Ballinas, 38, a Mexican national, has entered the U.S. illegally on three separate occasions. He is now in ICE custody after being held in federal prison at Fort Dix, New Jersey, ICE reported.

“Martinez-Ballinas repeatedly and flagrantly disregarded the laws of the United States and faces deportation for the third time,” Enforcement and Removal Operations Newark Acting Field Office Director Arthur J. Wilson, Jr. said in a statement. 

“A complete lack of respect for human life and our legal system”: ICE says

“His conviction for an automotive offense that resulted in the tragic loss of a U.S. Marine in 2017 demonstrates a complete lack of respect for human life and our legal system. Anyone who believes violations of U.S. immigration law are trivial or inconsequential should take note: Federal offenses carry serious consequences, and we will continue to enforce the law to protect our communities and honor those who serve our nation.”

In 2017, Martinez-Ballinas was convicted of a hit-and-run in Maryland that took the life of 21-year-old U.S. Marine James Ray Walden III, The New York Post reported. Walden’s father told “The Will Cain Show” on Fox News that Martinez-Ballinas was driving without a license or insurance when he crossed into oncoming traffic and struck the young Marine’s motorcycle head on.

“My son was 21 years old. He was just starting his life,” Walden said. “He was in the Marine Corps. He worked for intel. He worked for the National Security Agency as a crypto analyst, basically Jimmy Spide with a computer.”

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University of Maryland “Greatly Troubled” After Professor Arrested by ICE at Dallas Airport for Overstaying Visa – DHS Says He’s an “Illegal Alien from Ethiopia”

A University of Maryland (UMD) professor was arrested by ICE last month at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport two weeks ago, sparking more outrage from the left-wing media. 

Despite being here illegally, he’s received the title of the “teacher of the year” who was detained by ICE.

Berhanu Kibret, an Ethiopian professor at the UMD School of Pharmacy, was in the US illegally on an overstayed visa, which expired in May 2024, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

According to the University, he was “returning from a meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, where he received a Teacher of the Year award” at the time of his arrest.

The university said they were “greatly troubled” and that “Kibret has a valid Work Authorization, so it is our hope that any issues surrounding his status will be quickly resolved,” according to CBS.

However, the Department of Homeland Security described Kibret as an “illegal alien from Ethiopia” in a statement.

“Geresu Kibret entered the country on June 21, 2021, on a visa set to expire on May 31, 2024. Against our nation’s laws, he overstayed his visa and failed to depart. He will remain in ICE custody pending his immigration proceedings,” DHS said, noting that “being in detention is a choice.”

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OBAMA JUDGE PROTECTS PORTLAND’S BIASED POLICING: Rules Trump DOJ Acted in “Bad Faith” and with “Unclean Hands” for Demanding Records on Anti-Conservative Discrimination at ICE Protests

An Obama-appointed federal judge has handed Portland’s far-left political machine a major legal victory, denying the Trump Justice Department’s attempt to obtain police body-camera footage and internal records tied to allegations of anti-conservative viewpoint discrimination.

U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon rejected the Justice Department’s motion to compel Portland officials to turn over evidence connected to protests outside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

Simon accused the DOJ of acting in “bad faith and with unclean hands” and claimed the department’s request appeared intended to intimidate the Portland Police Bureau.

“The Court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the United States has brought this motion in bad faith and with unclean hands,” Simon wrote in his July 24 opinion. He added that the purported reasons for the nearly 30 document requests were “pretext.”

The extraordinary ruling effectively shields Portland officials from having to comply with the DOJ’s 29 demands for body-camera footage, police reports, complaints, internal communications, and other records—at least through this motion under Portland’s longstanding police-reform settlement.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Dhillon sent a scathing letter to Portland City Attorney Robert Taylor and Police Chief Bob Day following the controversial arrest of conservative journalist Nick Sortor.

Sortor was arrested outside Portland’s ICE facility in October 2025 after he said Antifa terrorists shoved him into a flower bed, damaged his camera, and threw punches at him.

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YOU’RE FIRED! Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Boots Leftist Staff Attorney After Profane Anti-ICE Meltdown — Vowed to Make Agents’ Lives “F**king Miserable”

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) has fired a staff attorney after she posted a profanity-laced anti-ICE tirade.

Shannon Desherow, the leftist Assistant General Counsel at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, has been FIRED after posting an expletive-filled TikTok tirade in which she refused to cooperate with ICE, claimed the agency has “no authority and no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens,” and urged Americans to “make their lives f—ing miserable.”

OSBI confirmed the termination to Fox News after completing an internal investigation.

“Once we were made aware of her social media post, we opened an internal investigation,” an OSBI spokesperson said.

“Upon completion of the internal investigation, she was terminated. Since this is a personnel matter, we are unable to further comment at this time.”

Desherow’s unhinged video, which first exploded after Libs of TikTok amplified it in early July, captured the radical attorney ranting from what appeared to be her car:

“Conservatives really think they’re doing something when they say, ‘Just comply’ when it comes to ICE and United States citizens… why the f— would I comply with someone who has no jurisdiction over me… ICE has no authority and no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens. So why the f— would I comply with an order given to me at gunpoint by somebody who has no f—ing authority to make that order? I’m not going to. That’s the f—ing thing.”

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