Since returning to power, Donald Trump has used the Immigration and Custom Enforcement service (ICE) like his own personal gestapo. In one troubling video, this saw them ‘violently detaining’ a blind man in Portland, Oregon.
ICE: State violence
As reported by the Hill, ICE agents dragged Quinn Haberl into their facility. In the course of dragging him, the agents dropped him on his head at one point. Following the fall, one agent stopped to collect Haberl’s white cane.
According to the Hill, activists report that Haberl is ‘usually joyful, dancing and having a good time while protesting outside of ICE’. These activists said directly:
It was heartbreaking to see him being dragged the way he was. The visceral reaction was to just not continue videotaping and get the angle, but I just couldn’t keep it out. I had to keep him in frame. I had to keep him in frame, and it just hurt my heart.
The Department of Homeland Security responded as follows:
This rioter was arrested after he blatantly disobeyed law enforcement orders to remain off federal property, obstructed law enforcement, and continued to block the driveway so vehicles could not enter or exit the ICE facility.
Haberl, meanwhile, is reportedly ‘too emotional to speak’.
His friends have established a GoFundMe to cover his medical bills and legal defence, which you can find here.
Targeting Americans
While ICE is specifically tasked with policing migrants, other recent videos claim to show them targeting US citizens. The commonality between those targeted is that they’re not white:
Deploying masked ICE agents to assault citizens is just one way in which America has become increasingly authoritarian under Trump. Other ways include Trump:
It’s important to know all this, because politicians like Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch want to emulate Trump’s America:
My message is clear: if you’re here illegally, you will be detained and deported.
Our new Removals Force, modelled on US ICE, will deport 150,000 illegal migrants each year. pic.twitter.com/mjQwuSe77w
— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) October 5, 2025
With this in mind, it’s crucial that everyone in the UK knows precisely what these politicians have planned.
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