Demand For UNMASKING ICE Grows, Immigration Court Arrests CONTINUE ft. Elaad Eliahu
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On my off time, I cover immigration and the Trump administration's new immigration initiatives and how they play out around the country.
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So they've recently been trying to obviously up their numbers and the President Trump administration.
Are we Gucci?
So part of the new initiatives of trying to increase their numbers have been DHS and ICE agents going to different immigration courthouses around the country, mainly in New York City and California is where they have the highest numbers.
And they are waiting outside of courtrooms of court proceedings for illegal immigrants.
And oftentimes they are taking them before their proceedings have fully finished because they are eligible for so-called expedited removals.
So the administration and DHS is prioritizing those who came here in the past two years or those who have a criminal record.
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And then after their court hearings, they are grabbing them.
And then you'll see many of these dramatic scenes outside of the courtrooms going on.
And despite these very dramatic scenes that I film while at these courthouses, only five to 10 illegal immigrants are being detained per day at these different courthouses.
So you're seeing that.
And actually this video, why is this important right now?
This is making national news because this video in particular is of a man who was actually separated from his wife who chose to resist arrest with him and his family.
So they all chose to grab each other.
The agents were forced to forcibly remove them from one another.
And then if we want to scroll down to the next clip, DHS agents, you know, while being physically agitated by the woman also who is an illegal immigrant, who was frustrated with her husband being taken away, this DHS agent reacted to him being grabbed and shoved this woman to the ground.
This got a lot of pushback initially.
I believe the spokesperson for DHS, I believe her name is Tricia McLaughlin.
She said something along the lines of this being unbecoming of ICE agents.
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Despite that, he is actually back on duty.
So 26 Federal Plaza, where these ICE agents are hanging outside of these immigration courts and doing these arrests has increasingly become a flashpoint.
Democrats and activists are often going there to protest what they see as poor treatment of people going through the court process, poor treatment of people in the processing facility on another floor where they take them to prepare them to be taken to a detention facility to ultimately be deported from.
And so that's why, you know, we're seeing a lot more of these scenes out of these courtrooms.
Yeah, I mean, so from my perspective, I was going through it earlier.
I was showing some of the polling as how deporting illegal immigrants and illegal criminals is extremely popular, even with Democrats.
This is a very popular position.
So going into going into the election, you had the bro casters.
I think is what you would call them.
That's like your Rogans, your Tim Dillons, your Theo Vaughns.
You know, they were behind Trump.
They were supporting Trump, these sorts of things.
And then as soon as videos like this started coming out, and a lot of them were your videos, everyone just soured really quickly.
And they were like, oh, but this is so mean.
These sorts of things.
I mean, how else is ICE?
From my perspective, I'm sitting here.
Like, how else is ICE supposed to conduct these operations, especially when they're not getting any support from these blue state and blue city governments?
So this is ultimately, I think, the safest and most reasonable way to go about it oftentimes, because if they've said, I believe Todd Lyons has said that if they're not going to get them at these courthouses, or I believe it wasn't, it wasn't Todd Lyons.
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It was the Border Czar Tom Homan, who said that if they're not going to get them at the courthouses in an orderly way, they're going to be forced to go into the neighborhoods.
If they're not able to go after them in the jails, then they're going to have to be going through the neighborhoods and then really break neighborhood trust with law enforcement, which would lead to a more detrimental situation.
Has, I mean, you've been covering this for a while now.
Have things ramped up after the Big Beautiful bill is passing?
The number of detainments at these immigration courts has actually gone down since the President Trump administration has began.
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And this is because as they began taking more and more people out from these courthouses, more people have been suing and they're caught up in a lot of litigation.
Also, there's issues with people with the processing facility allegedly not having enough room to house all the people that they were being detaining.
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So between that and a couple of other factors, they've definitely been decreasing the numbers of daily detainments, at least outside of the courthouses that I've witnessed.
The person who was actually shoved the woman to the ground was a supervisor and was hired way before any of these recent Big Beautiful bill or the signing bonus or what have you.
That guy wasn't getting in any of that.
This gentleman in the plaid shirt, who's now back on duty.
No, no, the new guys have been surprisingly orderly.
All of the photographers are desperate to try to catch a story to try to slander ICE.
All the photographers there are trying to catch the most dramatic moments and whatnot.
And I mean, these scenes do look very dramatic, but no, for by and large part, things are extremely orderly.
They're not beating up or, I don't know, they're not hanging.
They're not killing.
They're not assaulting any of the people who are there detaining.
If you leave in an orderly way, they'll escort you gently, frankly, in my estimation.
If you go scroll down a little bit more, most arrests, if you could keep going, those are some of the protests outside.
This is the very dramatic arrest, but most of the arrests are actually extremely ordered.
Most of the people who go to their court hearings aren't being detained, but there is this sense of, you know, this illegal migrant, illegal migrant woman with their presumably American child walking down these hallways with ICE agents just lining the halls.
That is sort of like masked agents.
And there is a sort of unease.
I will say, I don't, I talked to Todd Lyons about this, the acting director of ICE.
And it's like, I'm not so concerned about the trust of the institutions.
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I just need them to conduct their job as efficiently as possible.
And if they're getting doxed and there's people showing up to their houses and giving them a hard time, that impedes the operation, the mass deportation operation.
So it's like, I'm willing in the short term to make people feel a little uneasy if what we're trying to do is get millions and millions of legal immigrants on.
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I'm okay with them doing these sorts of things.
And it's like, if you don't want a mask, that's great.
I don't need, yeah, I don't need them to be, like I said, I don't need them to be thought leaders.
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I just need them to, and I don't care if, I don't, I really don't care if it makes people feel uneasy.
If you're here illegally, you should feel uneasy no matter what, because you're here illegally.
You're breaking the law.
Totally.
I ultimately think it's counterproductive, though, because if it's DHS and ICE agents' goal to try to deport as many people possible, then they need to stay popular and writ large among the populace and politicians while they do so, or they won't be able to fulfill that goal.
So I think this is a small, I don't, I don't think, I think most ICE agents would be fine if they were unmasked.
But I do think that it does give people an easy way to sort of slander them.
If you're not proud of your work, why are you wearing like if you're proud of your work?
Why are you hiding your face?
I think all the arguments that people use against Antifa and the far left hiding their face really does also apply here for law enforcement.
Well, I think at this point, to your first point about keeping popularity up, keeping public opinion of ICE popular, I think at this point, everyone that has an opinion on ICE has, you know, they've come to a conclusion whether they like them or not.
I don't think there's anybody that's like on the fence about ICE.
So I don't really know if there's much more that ICE could do to really win over new supporters, I guess.
No, I will say no.
I mean, I think they could lose supporters over this.
I think there's a percent of people, maybe small, maybe in the teens, maybe in the 10 to 20% of people who support law enforcement, but do genuinely feel uncomfortable with masked law enforcement doing their job.
Some people say that the intimidation is part of what they're trying to do.
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Part of the like factoring in the cruelty is the point, I think is what the liberals on the left says about this.
So if that is true, then the masks are actually playing into that.
But I think ultimately we saw with, and you know, it's unfortunate this is the environment we're in, but we've seen that the left is willing to use violence as a means to shut people up and to impede on their opponents' goals.
And so I'm looking, I guess I'll go back to my first point, which is my goal ultimately is to get as many illegal immigrants out of the country.
And if this causes them to lose, you know, 10, 20% of the country support-wise, I think that's worth it because the alternative is, I mean, you don't know what could happen to these guys or their families.
I mean, like with the Charlie Kirk murder, there's now like, you know, a lot of people speculating there was coordination.
Who knows what these black block operations in New York and Chicago and in Portland, I mean, they probably have a list of these guys and their families and these sorts of things.
And it's like, whatever these guys can do to insulate themselves from violence, you know, vigilante violence, I think is worth it because ultimately, I mean, they've had trouble.
They've had some difficulties hiring in certain places.
And I want to maintain as many agents as possible.
And I don't want to see these guys getting, you know, getting roughed up by these leftist activists.
I think they're roughed up would be in reverse.
But it's well, you know, I mean, like we saw with Kirk and we've seen with others is they're willing to go there.
They're willing to harm these guys.
And ultimately, I just don't see why they need to unmask for public.
These people that would be uneasy with ICE agents being masked, they're going to be uneasy with them anyway because they're doing something they don't support, which is they're- Totally.
I will say that people who make the argument that ICE agents shouldn't be wearing masks are almost exactly the same people who don't care about the far left and black bloc and Antifa wearing masks and using that as a way to protect their identities while committing crimes.
So there's probably a narrow group of people that just don't want masking across the board, whether it be Antifa or I think there's like a libertarian leaning type who's like anti-law enforcement, writ large, anti-authority figure, writ large, who feels that way.
I will say though, after the dramatic video of the gentleman shoving the woman to the ground, which went viral and many Democrats, congresspeople ended up commenting on, that guy was put on leave, ultimately brought back.
But I spoke to some of the agents around that gentleman and after the fact of that video going out, and he told me there were efforts to dox all of them.
Yeah.
All of the guys in the video.
And I said, obviously, like, of course, and that's unfortunate.
And, you know, you guys are masked up, but like there are consequences that kind of come with the job.
I'm not saying that a consequence should be getting doxed.
Yeah.
Well, I think the government should protect their agents.
Should regular police wear masks too?
Because some people will threaten to dox.
But they're not conducting as abrasive of an operation as mass deportations.
Like the police have, they're doing the same thing they've done for hundreds of years versus what ICE is doing is actually unfortunately is unprecedented, which is mass deportations.
That hasn't been done since like Eisenhower.
And this, at least in the scale that the Trump administration is envisioning.
And so, yeah, I mean, they are conducting an operation that is much more abrasive.
There's a large proportion of the country that really just wants to kill them.
And so it's like, I'm sitting here like, yeah, I mean, I think this is, at least in the short term, the solution until Tim made a good point, which is he just doesn't like that there's an environment in which federal agents have to mask for their lives.
Somebody pointed out to me, it's like, yeah, this man's being detained by a little Hispanic woman, an Asian guy on the right, this fat black guy in front of us, and then a white guy.
So it's a very diverse group of ICE agents who are detaining and taking this man.
And there are a lot of young guns too who like grab a guy and run away and I'll barely be able to catch him on video because it's like a young 23, 24, 25 year old who's just excited to be there and excited to be on the job.
A lot of these people are public figures who got behind Trump for other reasons, even though Trump's biggest issue was immigration.
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He made that very clear and it always has been.
And then now that these ICE Readers are conducting, they get very uncomfortable.
They start freaking out seeing these videos.
And I'm sitting here like, who did you think you were voting for?
Like, this is like his thing.
This is why I voted for him.
What has your reaction been?
Are you seeing a lot of these guys that are kind of in the middle, supposedly, that are flaking because of these videos?
I mean, I think it's easy to support something in principle and then like in the real world, caught on camera in its most dramatic effect and like in its worst case scenarios are harder.
It's a harder pill for certain people to swallow.
Most policy, when it's enacted, like you don't really see much of it.
But it's really eye-capturing.
I think it was inevitable that he was going to lose some people.
And I also think it was a really, it's important to notice that there's a sliding scale for how much people and what type of deportations people in our country support.
So for example, I think people, it's like a majority position for people to support people, DHS detaining and deporting people who got here in the past two years or have criminal records.
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But then I think you find decreasing support when you find, oh, what if the person had a family here?
What if they have a child here?
Then you start seeing support go down.
And then, oh, what if it's a person who's been here for 20 years?
Even if they don't have papers, a lot of Americans are still very sympathetic to people.
Illegal immigrants, nonetheless, but people who still been here 20 years, you'll probably be under 50% for people who support deporting people like that.
So I think you do see a sliding scale.
And then as things get more visual, people can get a little bit more flaky on it.
I think like another place where this effect is true, it's like people who are very pro-choice, but then when you see literal images of what an abortion really is in practice, the ghoulishness, gruesomeness of it can help sway someone's mind.
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And I also want to note that that's not ever, that's not actually my goal with the journalism here.
As many people on the right accused me of like trying to garner sympathy for illegal immigrants through my work.
I'm just trying to document the Trump administration's immigration policy in action and how that's panning out.
A lot of people also told me that I shouldn't be posting this stuff and like that it's bad that I'm posting this because I will be deported soon enough.
But I'll have you know that I'm a child of United States citizens.
unidentified
So well, sorry.
Sorry to the people hoping that they had a chance there.
Although, hey, maybe we should start deporting people with American citizenship.
unidentified
I've actually seen a funny post where the meme where it was like, oh, just because you had a fudging rat infestation or a bug infestation that's in your house, right?
That was homeborn.
That doesn't mean it's a good thing.
I do have the infestation that you need to remove.
Cancer is a so-called natural thing that your body can produce, but it doesn't mean that it should be there to stay.
And it would actually be harmful for you to keep it there.
Like, that's why the term exists, paperwork American.
unidentified
They're American on a technicality versus people that have been here, that have stake in the country, et cetera, et cetera.
And I do think people levying those accusations at you that you're like somehow trying to undermine our deportation operation, I think it's just ridiculous.
I think if anything, this is useful for people to see that, like, hey, they're actually doing things.
Because I think the concern from a lot of people on the right is that we're not deporting enough, that we're not involved in other people.
We really aren't.
I mean, as far as the courts go, I don't know if it caught it in the second part of the audio because I repeated myself again, but there's like something like five to ten deportations, a relatively low amount given how many people come through the court and they're actually eligible to be deported and detained, but ultimately aren't.
I've sat in on many court cases where the judge will say that they are eligible for expedited removal, but the ICE agents didn't have them on their target list or for one reason or another, if the processing center had too many people or there's other litigation that is ongoing.
unidentified
There are many other eligible people to be deported at these courthouses that they aren't doing.
This is, again, the first ever in-person live show hit.
unidentified
This is great.
We'll be back tomorrow at noon.
Lad, where can people find you to find more?
Yeah, Tate, thanks for giving me the opportunity to platform some of my immigration reporting.
In addition to my White House reporting, you can find a lot more videos of my coverage at these courthouses and ICE activity at Allad Eliyahu at Instagram, on Instagram and Twitter at Allad Eliyahu.
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