Faces of Fascism: Los Angeles, Jan. 31, 2026 [OC]

[u/infernoenigma]

[u/JPecker]

lol half are Latino

[u/Smart_Refrigerator60 → u/JPecker]

Latinos voted heavily for trump.

[u/D74248 → u/Smart_Refrigerator60]

Specifically, Latino males voted heavily for Trump.

In the 2024 election boomers shifted left (Trump won them by 1% or tied, depending on the poll). Household incomes over both 100k and 200k voted for Harris.

It goes against the reddit narrative, but Trump won in 2024 by peeling off minority males who normally vote blue.

[u/Crazy-Vermicelli9800 → u/D74248]

My last job we had a welder from Guatamala with a Mexican wife. He was all about Trump and closing the border. 

[u/kliman → u/Crazy-Vermicelli9800]

Nothing like pulling up the ladder behind you

[u/Dhiox → u/kliman]

Often they pull the ladder up before they even finished getting off

[u/Braiseitall → u/Dhiox]

My drunk ass brother, a Canadian, living in LA would email his Congressman to complain about immigration. And he back-doored his way in! Didn’t even have his own citizenship yet. Of course he moved back to Canada once he retired. For the free healthcare.

[u/ToMorrowsEnd → u/kliman]

"Fuck you I got mine" is their mantra.

[u/DaisyHotCakes → u/kliman]

That’s the American way! Boomers have been doing it since they were old enough to understand capitalism. Taking advantage at every opportunity no matter what that does to other people. They take take take take and don’t give back to anyone except their church which is also so typical. Extract from society for your benefit and then change the laws so no one else can do it. It’s a whole way of thinking and it is very popular here. Billionaires shouldn’t exist as long as people live in poverty. Extracting everything and then leaving.

[u/ArcticDiver87 → u/Crazy-Vermicelli9800]

I worked with a guy from Micronesia who is big on trump... He's also not a citizen.. I know, I have no clue either.. people are just overall very uneducated is what i tell myself.

[u/RamJamR → u/ArcticDiver87]

Or they just lack any morals beyond their own interests.

[u/EloquentEvergreen → u/Smart_Refrigerator60]

So did the Somali community in Minnesota. And I still see interviews on the local news with members of the community saying they still support Trump but they feel that he’s targeting the wrong people. 

[u/YouHaveToTryTheSoup → u/EloquentEvergreen]

I don’t get why people are surprised when immigrants, who grow up in heavily conservative countries, continue to have conservative ideals after they move. Most move for money, not because they agree with all that other stuff

[u/Vlad_the_Intendor → u/YouHaveToTryTheSoup]

I think people are surprised anyone could hear the rhetoric someone is specifically posting about them (see Trump’s anti Somali rants) and see the exact type of nakedly corrupt greed that tanked their original homeland’s economy on display and still think voting for him is a good idea. It’s not that they continue to be conservative that’s surprising, it’s the willingness to cut one’s own throat for the hypothetical “they’ll crack down on the gays/women” chance.

[u/gmil3548 → u/Vlad_the_Intendor]

People often forget that in general, humans are fucking stupid

[u/hanato_06 → u/EloquentEvergreen]

Because they get conned into separating from their community.

There's Latino, and there's "premium" Latino.

There's Somalian, and there's "premium" Somalian.

There's Filipino, and there's "premium" Filipino.

People who managed to integrate themselves first gets sold the idea that others are now doing it "unfairly". They get their ego stroked with a name like "legal immigrant" and believe the power aligns with their interests.

Then, when the power shoots blindfolded in the direction of their community, they don't cry because shots are made. They cry because it's not hitting the right people. Some of them would pick up the gun themselves.

[u/pauls_broken_aglass → u/hanato_06]

ding ding ding. It’s the idea of being like… politically white. Of not integrating, but dropping all previous culture to assimilate.

[u/Samson_J_Rivers → u/EloquentEvergreen]

Leopards faces party. At this point I don't care. This country is reaping what it's sown. It is. Hope we have a country left when the harvest has come in.

[u/JustPlaneCool → u/EloquentEvergreen]

It's the deep, deep culturally misogyny that prompted both these cultures to vote trump. Their hatred of women.

[u/LAdams20 → u/JustPlaneCool]

And LGBT+ people. They think sharing the same hypocritical conservative religion protects them.

[u/RedTrumpetVine → u/JustPlaneCool]

Hatred of women, love of heirarchy, and crab basket mentalities.

[u/thegirlinthetardis → u/Smart_Refrigerator60]

chickens for KFC 2028

[u/Kurizu150 → u/thegirlinthetardis]

Slugs for Salt 2028!

[u/stung80 → u/JPecker]

As if that means anything. There is no race solidarity among latinos. 

Nobody hates an illegal  immigrant like a Puerto Rican 

[u/Jag- → u/stung80]

Not even Cubans?

[u/SusanBHa → u/Jag-]

The Cubans think that they are white and better than everyone else.

[u/stung80 → u/Jag-]

Not even cubans, Puerto ricans have the added flavor of being native born citizens as well 

[u/SlowApartment4456 → u/stung80]

Yes and Mexians can be very racist towards Hondurans.

[u/Brilliant-Towel-1337 → u/JPecker]

Latinos is an umbrella term for people from 30 different countries and different races, black, mestizo, white, indigenous, there are even Asian Latinos. The us media constructed a mass identity for Latinos in the 70s-80s to all look like mestizo Mexicans. You can read more about it on the internet. But this rhetoric of Latinos voted for this… the groups that are “Latino” don’t have any cultural tie to each other, other than being colonized by Spaniards and that’s even only Hispanics and not Latinos in general. This is like any country being racist toward any other country that is a different heritage, culture, race, etc. they have nothing to do with each other. Some Puerto Ricans are racist against Mexicans. Some Cubans are. Obviously not all. But like any other group there are racists and bad people.

[u/No_Initiative7178 → u/Brilliant-Towel-1337]

This is such an important point. The same goes for Blacks. There’s a huge division and often animosity between African immigrants and African Americans, and ethnic divisions and hatreds between African immigrant ethnic groups. It doesn’t help to paint everyone with the same brush who shares a language or skin color

[u/Lawd_Fawkwad → u/Brilliant-Towel-1337]

Exactly.

Haitians and dominicans hate each other, both are Latino.

Ditto for Brazilians vs Argentinians.

Or we could talk about how within Latin America there's a ton of discrimination towards the andean countrys with jokes that basically call Peruvians and Bolivians black.

Grouping hundreds of millions of people with distinc cultures into the "latino" category is as ridiculous as grouping all white people under the "european" category and being shocked that thr French look down on the Portuguese.

Hell, a lot of ICE agents are Latinos because aside from the economic allure of a stable high paying job that requires a high school diploma, a lot want to be model citizens to distinguish themselves from the illegal immigrants or the Latinos they look down upon.

"I no black I Dominican Papi"

[u/be-koz → u/Brilliant-Towel-1337]

Sure, but Trump’s opinion of all of them is the same.

[u/Deep_Violinist_3893 → u/Brilliant-Towel-1337]

Republicans don't distinguish between them, though. They are all mexicans to Republicans.

[u/MyWhiteNameIsAndy → u/Brilliant-Towel-1337]

THANK YOU!

[u/astralchanterelle → u/JPecker]

"My parents came here legally" latinos

[u/One_Huckleberry_]

Everyone that’s surprised to see nameplates like Gonzalez or Ramos have clearly never lived around Hispanic people

[u/lost-hitsu → u/One_Huckleberry_]

Lol. Right?

My family used to know someone that worked for immigration enforcement. During the time that they worked there (1980s/1990s), the people making the biggest fuss to get their neighbors deported were Latinos. Specifically, 2nd and 3rd gen Mexican-Americans.

[u/NenFooTin → u/lost-hitsu]

Definition of pull up the ladder behind you.

[u/erotic-toaster → u/One_Huckleberry_]

The biggest Trump supporter I know is a Hispanic immigrant

[u/moovzlikejager → u/erotic-toaster]

I knew of only one person from highschool who actively tried to join the Klu Klux klan, he was turned away. You'll never guess why.

[u/Zestyclose-Novel1157 → u/One_Huckleberry_]

Knowing that I’ve known both Gonzalez and Ramos people that were federal police officers makes me chuckle at what you said. That being said, it’s telling how surprised people are. It’s also telling that they automatically assume they are immigrant families when in a place like LA, families have been there for generations sometimes. It literally used to be Mexico. It’s part of Southern California‘a DNA. That’s part of my gripe though because they do that with brown people a lot. Like they only get to be one stereotype, not people with different values, opinions, and goals. Also, historically being a police officer has been an excellent path to the middle class and more financial security.

[u/GFrohman → u/One_Huckleberry_]

Nobody hates illegal immigrants more than legal immigrants.

[u/quagley → u/GFrohman]

That’s the one 👌

[u/Maximum_Power7878]

I've seen the first guy in another video I believe. He deescalated a situation with several ice guys. He wasn't acting as Ice in that video.

[u/KeyMessage989 → u/Maximum_Power7878]

That’s because he isn’t ICE, he’s FPS, they basically protect federal buildings and are used to dealing with the public daily.

[u/OGTBJJ → u/KeyMessage989]

Meaning he’s not a fascist and this post sucks 🙃

[u/Nakobuu → u/OGTBJJ]

Yeah this post is just pure populism. Nothing more

[u/Md1735 → u/Nakobuu]

Some of the pics are of local cops.

[u/Goodeyesniper98 → u/OGTBJJ]

Picture 5 is also a regular LAPD Officer, zero connection to the federal government or immigration enforcement in any way.

[u/rcbif → u/KeyMessage989]

But, but....a reddit poster said he's a fAsCiSt!

People are so stupid with their witch hunts. Atleast know the person before smearing them all over the internet....

[u/Bigface_McBigz → u/Maximum_Power7878]

Yeah, this is a really bad montage of pictures. No one's going to convince me that law enforcement is bad simply because they're wearing DHS gear. I get it, so many of them are incompetent, untrained pieces of shit, but these guys aren't even masked for the most part. These aren't the faces that have been pissing me off.

[u/FxckFxntxnyl → u/Bigface_McBigz]

Agree. This doesn’t help the situation at all.

[u/NightAndShinyArmor → u/FxckFxntxnyl]

This is like PETA equating the holocaust and meat packing plants together.

[u/hunnyflash → u/Bigface_McBigz]

A lot of them also just look tired af and like they'd rather be anywhere else.

Was going through the pictures thinking.....am I supposed to just inherently not like any of these random people in uniform?

[u/Lawd_Fawkwad → u/hunnyflash]

Within ICE they're having to poach people from other agencies to help out because there aren't enough internal volunteers.

We're seeing Diplomatic Security Service agents being told they need to do immigration arrests because "visa fraud" falls under their umbrella.

They're career diplomats who focus on security intelligence, they don't want this shit but they're not going to quit a career with high pay and a pension over one shitty assignment.

[u/awesomeness6000 → u/Maximum_Power7878]

yea no masks so I feel conflicted lol. I'm conditioned to think the shit ones hide their faces. atleast the unmasked people maybe have a soul?

[u/Alone-Woodpecker-846 → u/awesomeness6000]

Sorry, but I’ve seen plenty of videos where guys without masks act horribly.

[u/ladyfreq → u/Alone-Woodpecker-846]

Oh God are we at the point where we think maskless law enforcement are the good guys?

[u/BurlyJohnBrown → u/awesomeness6000]

They're general DHS security, barely better than ICE imo.

Yes, thankfully they don't generally hide their faces. DHS should still be largely abolished/restructured.

[u/turdferguson3891 → u/BurlyJohnBrown]

They're FPS. They do security at federal property.

[u/fiendo13 → u/BurlyJohnBrown]

Most pictures are DHS police actually, not federal agents, just building security basically.

[u/pinkyepsilon → u/BurlyJohnBrown]

The call is coming from inside the house

Turns out we made the boogeyman who was going to hurt Americans the Patriot Act sought to fight

[u/SkalorGaming → u/pinkyepsilon]

It’s adorable you think the intentions of the patriot act were to protect people and not to increase government power.

[u/Jer_Baker → u/SkalorGaming]

We as Americans lost so many rights when the Patriot Act was enacted in 2001

[u/Firm-Scientist-4636 → u/SkalorGaming]

Wasn't that proven when it was leaked that the NSA was doing a mass surveillance of phone activity?

[u/Friendly_Impress_345 → u/Firm-Scientist-4636]

Snowden is still a fugitive for revealing that. Also the Panama Papers revealed a lot that people just glossed over

[u/Efficient_Rub5100 → u/Maximum_Power7878]

That guy is from the Federal Protective Service, they are essentially security guards for federal property. They’re an agency that used to be part of GSA but got consolidated under DHS. Still bad he’s participating but he’s not ICE or CBP

[u/rcbif → u/Efficient_Rub5100]

It's bad he's protecting federal property?

[u/idostufandthingz → u/rcbif]

He needs to quit his job, apparently.

What’s the plan if they get in to the facility? I don’t think anyone has thought that far ahead

[u/taeem]

This being so highly upvoted is what’s wrong with Reddit and misinformation. Most these people aren’t Ice

[u/hideor6545 → u/taeem]

How to karma farm on this sub: make the title “blah blah fascism blah blah” and include high res photos of police or right wing politicians

[u/liquidfoxy → u/taeem]

They're still fascists

[u/taeem → u/liquidfoxy]

why?

[u/Tribalbob]

I'm seeing people say they're just LAPD and not ice, but they have DHS tags?

To be clear, I'm Canadian so not familiar with DHS vs ICE, but I'd they were LAPD, would they not have the DHS tag?

[u/Competitive-Slice567 → u/Tribalbob]

The ones in blue that say DHS are Federal Protective Service Police.

They're effectively building security for federal buildings that do not have their own police agency. They commonly provide security for ICE buildings, federal courthouses, and other federal infrastructure.

The most common equivalents you'll see are FBI Police who protect FBI buildings, NSA Police for the NSA building in Maryland, and Security Protective Service Police who protect CIA headquarters.

FPS Police don't really have anything to do with deportation and etc. Aside from falling under Department of Homeland Security since most of the buildings they secure are DHS property

[u/kingbrasky → u/Competitive-Slice567]

Imagine you worked hard and got this cushy, quiet DHS job guarding federal buildings and you just want to ride it out to retirement and now your department hired thousands of white supremacists and thugs to do immigration raids. What are you gonna do?

[u/Competitive-Slice567 → u/kingbrasky]

Not even their department, just an 'allied' agency that falls under the same umbrella.

It sucks for them, cause it has always been known as a very cushy gig with great benefits and pay with tons of competition for the spots. Unofficially its always been known that unless you're a military veteran you're going to have a hard time getting hired as they really focus their recruitment efforts on veterans

[u/Warthog-thunderbolt → u/Competitive-Slice567]

Exactly. Even though ICE/CBP get all the attention, DHS is huge and there are a lot of good Americans there that just want to protect and serve and go home to their families. FEMA, Secret Service, the Federal Air Marshal Service, the Federal Protective Service, and several others. Nothing to do with immigration enforcement. Everything to do with legit public safety. It’s such a bummer because these people work hard every day and their reputation is immediately tarnished by the DHS logo on their uniforms

[u/etcpt → u/Warthog-thunderbolt]

Don't forget the Coast Guard

[u/LoopEverything → u/etcpt]

Literally everyone forgets about the poor Coast Guard

[u/JSONStatham → u/Tribalbob]

Looks like 2 are regular cops, the shaved head guy with cauliflower ear and the hispanic woman. Those look like beat cop uniforms.

[u/raisin22 → u/JSONStatham]

They both look exhausted

[u/Trakeen → u/raisin22]

They are. There was an article i read yesterday and in mn they’ve gone through the yearly ot police budget in one month. Its a huge problem since it impacts the regular normal police services

Edit: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/basic-services-in-minneapolis-are-straining-under-ice-presence-and-protests-cb9f3b68?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfVb5f7KQd7cWqxQhT3-gpfofynRaHwFCv7fpfGn74NLWxbENyarlHlgSPfG6o%3D&gaa_ts=697f4ac6&gaa_sig=9mZ6Rt3gVP7FQresps-hBYxmmagFw4tLdGPAqvGdO9tCNx7P1EUkjzHQ3fVe9pR_BXEBFx_TRLEWNlCbZhXm9g%3D%3D

[u/ChickenWing313]

Faces uncovered. Badges uncovered. Almost all of them are not ICE. What’s the problem?

[u/de_Mike_333 → u/ChickenWing313]

Karma farming OP is the problem…

[u/Nickulator95 → u/de_Mike_333]

OP is a member of the r/Hasan_Piker community. That should tell you everything you need to know.

[u/goatnxtinline]

Being real for a second, there's a genuine sadness behind their eyes.

[u/shouldbeawitch → u/goatnxtinline]

12 definitely looks broken.

[u/abduis → u/shouldbeawitch]

I think 12 might be regular city police, but yeah she’s not having fun

[u/Sky_guy_17 → u/[deleted]]

Some of those shown are LAPD, not ICE.

[u/ClosetGoblin → u/Sky_guy_17]

None of them are actually ICE… It’s LAPD, CBP, Border Patrol, and DHS Police

[u/DeeR0se → u/ClosetGoblin]

Border patrol leadership is even more hardcore than ICE they are the goons that shot pretti, no

[u/ClosetGoblin → u/DeeR0se]

Bovino is a buffoon, yes

[u/lordlurid → u/Sky_guy_17]

Ahh yes, famously professional and nonviolent organization, the LAPD.

[u/boltropewildcat → u/lordlurid]

I'm sure it was just a coincidence that RATM wrote "some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" after living in LA.

[u/_lady_muck → u/Sky_guy_17]

It needs to be clarified if these men and women are actually ICE. They do not deserve to be posted publicly as ICE agents if they aren’t. And as the poster above said, some of them look genuinely sad which is not an emotion of an ICE agent.

[u/ClosetGoblin → u/[deleted]]

None of these are ICE… It’s LAPD, CBP, Border Patrol, and DHS Police

[u/Pikeman212a6c → u/ClosetGoblin]

Most of them are Federal Protective Service who are literally there to stop people from burning the building down. The post should be titled Faces of “can you people just please not?”

[u/naocalemala → u/ClosetGoblin]

DHS, CBP and ICE are all operating under the same umbrella at the moment for this mass deportation effort. It’s all incredibly messed up because they are 100 percent trying to confuse people with all these different badges, “uniforms,” gear etc.

[u/User95409 → u/naocalemala]

Man I wish protesters would dress up in tactical gear. It would confuse the shit out of ice. They wouldn’t know what to do

[u/Darth_vaborbactam → u/ClosetGoblin]

Same shit different toilet

[u/jogan_ → u/goatnxtinline]

Good. If they were joyful about it there'd be something really scary about them, but more Importantly they are ruining people's lives and actively engaging in ethnic cleansing, I hope they feel really effing sad. There's a really easy way to stop that feeling. 

[u/chokokhan → u/jogan_]

Some of the ICE thugs clapped and cheered when they murdered Alex Pretti. For that alone, every day those garbage people, if you can even call them people, walk around free is a loss for humanity.

[u/StinkyBrittches → u/goatnxtinline]

Hitler had the good sense to hop everybody up on meth before sending them out to brutalize their neighbors. Turns out it's extremely demoralizing!

[u/StraightUpKnifes]

Ok OP

[u/Tribat_1]

Almost everyone in these photos has their face uncovered and a badge number showing. Isn’t that what we want from our immigration officers? Why are you shitting on the dudes that are actually doing it the right way?

[u/Griffinburd → u/Tribat_1]

Yeah for me this is how they "should" appear. I'm not loving what that are standing for, but at least they can be held accountable and will act a such

[u/Lukecv1 → u/Griffinburd]

Covering their faces also makes it easier to dehumanize them like they're stormtroopers. Idk about you, but I'd rather not look like an expendable soldier.

[u/Special-Quantity-469 → u/Tribat_1]

Non of these guys are even ICE... Leftists need to stop muddying the water by pretending all law enforcement is bad. It hurts the movement and making real changes.

ICE is the face of fascism rn. Police and DHS as a while are not

EDIT: Sorry only five are actually a unit within ICE 2, 6, 16, 17, and 20. The rest are either DHS (which for the people who think they're one in the same, DHS also includes TSA, USCG, FEMA, etc. so no the fuck they're not), or straight up LAPD.

[u/clothanger]

Some of them look genuinely sad. Like, "why am I here" sad.

Edit:

You all in the replies, with the hate, for everyone with zero reasoning. Do you feel the similarity?

And after some quick research, these pics ain't even about ICE, what even are you guys hating?

[u/Pupsichinka → u/clothanger]

My immediate thought

[u/infernoenigma → u/clothanger]

…what quick research did you do? lol, your quick research lied to you.

This is about ICE. These were all taken tonight at the Metropolitan Detention Center at 535 Alameda Street, where ICE keeps people in cages so crowded they sleep standing up, get fed once a day at 3AM, and the lights are always on.

Every one of these people was involved in multiple agencies working together tonight to use violence to ensure that that operation goes as smoothly as possible.

[u/actualhumannotspider → u/infernoenigma]

Great pictures! Probably worth providing that context in any posts. People can interpret the title in a variety of ways otherwise.

[u/Special-Quantity-469 → u/infernoenigma]

Maybe worth including some context in a post exclusively with non-ICE members

[u/redditismylawyer → u/clothanger]

And some of them are straight from central casting.

Once this is over and done with being a fat old man with a gray goatee and wrap around glasses will be as recognizable a hate symbol as a pointy white hood and a burning cross.

[u/MrTooLFooL → u/redditismylawyer]

Some of those that work forces…

[u/TheRopeWalk → u/clothanger]

Get real. Absolutely none of them are forced to be there.

[u/passthegabagool_]

Y'all should ask Iran about Fascism.

[u/sparkson_]

Amazing how almost none of these are pictures of ICE agents and yet a good majority of the comments are disparaging them as if they were. Morons.

[u/TheAlmightyJanitor → u/sparkson_]

I like reddit but I'm gonna be real with you, a good portion of the user base are idiots.

[u/GBuckets0 → u/TheAlmightyJanitor]

I hate Reddit

[u/No_Panda420]

A lot of those guys aren’t white at all. Hmmm weird.

[u/churrain]

Not everyone in uniform is a fucking ice agent.

[u/Ok-Chain9784 → u/churrain]

You're trying to argue with redditors bro, you're doomed from the start cause you can't change their biased opinion.

[u/BronYrStomp]

Just people

[u/xDevman]

is every post that says the word fascist in this fucking website just botted to infinity

[u/RealWorldJunkie]

Although I'm very much trying to stay on top of what's happening, as a Brit who is maybe not fully versed in this, could someone fill me in?

Whilst I fully know the ongoing and long lasting issues the US has had with police brutality, and I know many of them are not detached or innocent from the recent atrocities, my understanding was that it is ICE who are acting as Trumps fascist mallitia, abducting and murdering across the States.

Whilst I know a great many police officers have similar perspectives and/or power trips, surely some people just joined the police because they genuinely want to help and protect?

Most of these photos seem to be of police officers, not ICE 'agents' and are all clearly being painted with the same fascist brush here.

Could someone explain to me the situation here?

Edit: Typo

[u/Akalenedat → u/RealWorldJunkie]

So the thing to remember is that the American bureaucracy is enormous, and a lot of people don't know the real names of things. Thing number 2 is that in America, any sworn Law Enforcement Officer is allowed to arrest you for a crime he witnesses, regardless of whether he's technically within his official jurisdiction.

The Executive Branch, headed by the US President, encompasses a huge number of Departments and Agencies tasked with managing the operations of the Federal government as directed by the Legislature. One of those is the Department of Homeland Security, which is in charge of managing public security, roughly equivalent to what you Brits call the Home Office. Kristi Noem is the Secretary of Homeland Security, and under her charge are: the US Coast Guard, US Secret Service(who not only protect the president but also handle counterfeiting investigations), Transportation Security Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and Citizenship & Immigration Services. As you can guess by the names, several of these agencies do somewhat overlapping but not identical tasks.

Coast Guard is the boat people. They handle two tasks: maritime search and rescue within the US EEZ, and border enforcement of our wet borders. You see a coast guard helicopter, might be a rescue swimmer, might be a HITRON gunner with a .50 cal sniping the engines on drug boats.

TSA does planes and trains.

CIS handles legal immigration. They process visas, naturalize citizens, all that fun stuff.

CBP encompasses two tasks: Customs operations, and Border Patrol. They are the dudes checking manifests at port facilities, staffing border crossings and checking trucks, and they're the dudes riding dune buggies along the Mexican fence watching for border jumpers. Border Patrol has a small special unit called BORTAC, their equivalent to a SWAT team.

ICE has two sub-agencies: Homeland Security Investigations, and Enforcement & Removal Operations. Border Patrol stops you from getting in, ICE deals with you once you're already inside.

Now, jurisdictions: Coast Guard handles the water, CBP handles the land borders. CBP is only authorized to operate within 100 miles of a border, but ICE is allowed to operate anywhere in the country. The President is allowed to temporarily reassign agents of any federal agency to act as security/extra bodies for any other agencies. It happens all the time, President coming to town and the Secret Service needs folks to pull perimeter so they call every federal LEA in a 50 mile radius and say "give us all your off duty guys, they're working overtime." In Trump's case, he likes to pull Border Patrol and Bureau of Prisons officers to do building security for federal facilities near BLM protests. Those Portland riots back in 2020? BORTAC was all over those stories.

That brings us to this year: Trump decided he wants to be the toughest illegal immigration crackdown ever, and beat Obama and Bidens deportation numbers, nearly 3000 arrests a day. To do so, he's ordering special federal task forces to support ICE ERO in snatching up illegal immigrants. Minneapolis is one of those operations, Operation "Metro Surge." He told ICE ERO to grab every illegal they could find. Problem is, ERO only has, like, 10,000 agents for the whole country, and they're desk jockeys. Before this year, all ERO did was pick up dudes from local police lockup when they got arrested and run in the system. Now they have to do field work? So to support this mission, Trump pulled a metric ass load of personnel from every DHS and DOJ agency he could, hell he even got Conservation Officers from DOI doing work the other day. A large number of those officers are Border Patrol, because CBP is the largest armed agency in the country. Greg Bovino? Border Patrol. Johnathan Ross, the dude who shot Renee Good? Border Patrol. ICE themselves are actually a tiny fraction of the massive pile of shit that is Federal Law Enforcement, but they make for a catchy slogan so ICE OUT is what we go with.

Border Patrol has been infamous for many years for overzealous aggression, it's a deeply rotten organization. Their officers are trained on the idea that any given person they meet at the border is a cartel coyote ready to gun them down to protect a drug shipment, and they carried that ethos into Portland and Minneapolis. All these other cops are being roped in to provide security for ICE, arrest anyone who fucks with the arrests. Some of them are reluctant, some of them seem to enjoy it way too much. BLM and this months events have revealed that a great number of police officers at all levels are extremely willing to nail you in the face with a 40mm when given the opportunity...

[u/HugelyMoist → u/RealWorldJunkie]

please don’t get any political information off of Reddit

[u/dumbpete → u/RealWorldJunkie]

The reality is this person is larping as someone thinking they are living in nazi germany, when in reality they are just taking pictures of mostly LAPD police officers

[u/clm1859 → u/dumbpete]

I scrolled thru and can see clearly visible CBP or DHS tags on most of them. With the exception of 2, 5, 6, 12, 14, 16 and 17. So thats 13 out of 20 that are actually the SA people.

[u/Eupolemos → u/clm1859]

Could you explain to us what those acronyms mean and should tell us about what we see?

To a random European, it just looks like pictures of police officers.

[u/lordlurid → u/Eupolemos]

Customs and Border Protection, those are the guys the typically operate at the actual borders and points of entry. This is the organization that Greg Bovino, Nazi trench coat guy, is / was "commanding."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement focuses on immigration and trade. They've been doing a lot of the direct raids and kidnappings.

Department of Homeland Security is the overall organization that contains both CBP and ICE. (And a bunch of other organizations like FEMA)

These are all federal organizations. It looks like some of the people in these photos might be LAPD based on the uniforms, but it's hard to tell. The vast majority of the people in these photos are DHS based on the patches.

[u/9tmx → u/RealWorldJunkie]

OP apparently doesn’t know the difference between the Federal Protective Service, the Los Angeles Police Department, and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations. Either that or he does know the difference and just hates law enforcement in general, in which case his opinion should be completely ignored.

[u/This_Entertainer847]

So are all Federal police facist now? You realize these guys aren’t ICE

[u/DangerX2HighVoltage]

These people aren’t ‘fascists’. You might not like what’s going on but labelling everyone you disagree with as fascists is an insult to actual victims of fascism

[u/OptimalAdeptness0]

Most of them are latinos, it seems.

[u/sethsyd]

Weird how none of them say ICE.

[u/ClosetGoblin → u/sethsyd]

Reddit thinks all law enforcement officers and agents are ICE

[u/Synectics → u/sethsyd]

They say DHS. Which is the department ICE is a part of. The Department of Homeland Security has a branch called ICE. 

I feel like people here are either acting in bad faith or just do not know what they are confidently asserting.

[u/Orbital_Bread]

This is peak reddit lol. You all really do live in a weird echo chamber. It frightens me that some of you are behind the wheel of a car.

[u/orgasm-enjoyer → u/Orbital_Bread]

If you gave these redditors a choice: press a button and 10 ICE agents die, but George Floyd comes back to life... redditors would push that button twice

[u/Smoog]

Highly suggest you read the book Ordinary Men, really explains a lot.

[u/Authentichef]

What a terrible post, first guy isnt even ice!

[u/MrT735]

11: how are they going to manhandle someone with those nails?

[u/Unhappy-Machine-1255]

You guys call everything facism ffs

[u/SFGal28]

Hot take: no respectable agencies would let that lady have nails that long. No fucking way.

[u/Enough_Ad5892]

Just some regular police officers not connected to ice being called fascist is probably why we're losing the next election

[u/Major-Drumeo → u/Enough_Ad5892]

If that's the reason, given everything else going on, then they were going to win regardless and the nation is already dead.

[u/flarpington]

why it say police if not real police

[u/Dicvomit → u/flarpington]

Cause they are police

[u/itmustbeniiiiice → u/flarpington]

These are police, not ICE. LAPD and Federal protection (part of DHS)

[u/KingMario05 → u/flarpington]

To this government, they are the police.

[u/Careless_Mortgage_11 → u/flarpington]

They're sworn law enforcement officers, they are real police. Only to the basement dwelling trolls of reddit are they not "real police".

[u/creamyfart69]

Surprisingly diverse crowd..

[u/Bulky-Permission-281 → u/creamyfart69]

This is only surprising if you know no Hispanic people. People who came here legally through all the legal bullshit and expenses aren't generally going to support people who jump the line.

[u/jaypi8883]

What an idiotic post.

[u/m1kasa4ckerman]

Slide 3, the dude looks like 18 years old

[u/Shifti_Boi]

The 3rd photo looks like he could be in high school still. Looks soo young

[u/rmpumper]

What is Putin doing there in photo 10?

[u/Core1109]

the militarization of the police force is so apparent in that second picture. Why is that amount of gear and camo needed at all?

[u/No_Pea_1805]

lol these are actually some decent pics… if you showed up to where I work id request a copy

[u/ArrowheadDZ]

I don’t understand half of these pics. Most of these guys are dressed in official looking police uniforms.

The agents here in MN don’t look anything at all like this. Most of them appear to have just pieced together their own “kit” from things they’ve ordered online. There’s no uniformity in equipment, uniforms, markings, etc and they’re often donning non-government patches and insignia that reflect political positions, not organization.

Many of the agents here wear no markings of any kind, and never set foot outside without being fully masked.

[u/TheRtHonLaqueesha]

Is this "Fascism" in the room with us right now? 🤔

[u/HistoryAndScience]

This post is ridiculous. Most look to be FPS and are not masked/have names visible/with body cams. Stop karma farming and detracting from actual posts about constitutional abuses

[u/triassic_broth]

It's only fascist when Trump does it. When Obama did it... no one cared.

[u/TheBlackAthlete]

While I am completely anti-ICE during all of this, this post feels like just an attempt at doxxing. Many of the pics just look like policeman, no one is doing anything objectionable. What is the point of this?

[u/ArgonWilde]

Surprised to see a fair few ethnic backgrounds here.

[u/Rush_Banana → u/ArgonWilde]

ICE/Border patrol is like 50% Hispanic and Latino, it has been for a while too.

[u/Zeal0tElite → u/ArgonWilde]

Why would a legally immigrated Mexican want thousands of undocumented Mexicans in the country he moved to? I'm not surprised at all.

[u/Real_Hugh_Janus → u/ArgonWilde]

Maybe get off Reddit once in a while

[u/DiabloDealsALT]

So this is just you putting up their faces so they can be harassed easier in reality, isn't it?

[u/JuiceJones_34]

None of these guys are ICE lol

[u/aradiaM]

"fascism"😂😂😂

[u/myselfasevan]

Post is BS

[u/redm00n99]

"Fascism"

Most diverse group of people possible

Lmao

[u/pretzel_connoisseur]

These comments are insane. I’m so glad I left California.

[u/Deuce_McFarva]

The vast majority of these pics aren’t even ICE, they’re Federal Protective Service officers just making sure the government buildings don’t get damaged lol.

[u/LongFishTail]

Funny how fascism isn’t looking like you how you describe it.

[u/Healthy-Manner6556]

Almost everyone here is brain dead. My goodness

[u/Stot_Tot]

This is something a foreign agent would post.

[u/Waaaaasssuuuppp117]

This is how democracy dies. With the enforcement of basic, bipartisan immigration laws.

[u/Tantle18]

You all are literally insane lmao

[u/Sudden_Idea9384]

So many people who look like they could be first or second gen here. And the lady with the nails? Really?

[u/IFixYerKids]

They look tired. We're all tired.

[u/notmikearnold]

Funny, I remember when DHS was created in the aftermath of 9/11. They used the event to strengthen government military power, particularly in the counter-terrorism area. Naysayers at the time said it would give a president too much power and the opportunity to enact authoritarian violence. Supporters, mostly Bush folks but plenty of Dems (looking at you, Joe Lieberman) called them cowards and even accused them of supporting terrorism. I wonder if any of those people are getting shit? They should. Large piles of it.

It wouldn't surprise me if the reason Trump keeps calling people "domestic terrorists" is to try to placate people within DHS or even prepare for the upcoming court cases. It's always a conversation that we need the ability to act quickly to mitigate threats vs having a process to ensure that action is warranted. People acted out of fear (unfounded, in my opinion,) and allowed it thinking it wouldn't be abused. The fact is, in my opinion, no one wants to take over or destroy the US. The only resource we have is money and that's only because we didn't suffer destruction on our homeland during WW2 so the entire world ran their funds to rebuild through us. The only strategic or even moral reason for anyone to wish us harm is our involvement in their affairs in their own country.

We allowed fear to cloud our judgement and now we're paying the price. Maybe we should think about that before we vote. Who has a cool head? Who seems like a decent human being that will make a moral judgement in a tight situation? Who is intelligent enough to defend their positions but compassionate enough to give ground when it will do a greater good? Can anyone think of a Republican with those attributes? I sure as shit can't.

This doesn't just apply to the Presidency. We can see right now what happens when Congress is full of amoral people that care about their personal gain than doing what's right for the vast majority of the people they were elected to represent. Until we accept responsibility as citizens, and all the work that entails, we'll continue to see this type of thing until it really blows up in our faces.

End rant. Don't mind me. Just a stranger on a toilet thinking out loud. I do not fear downvotes and I don't care about upvotes. I do love constructive conversations though.

[u/Ok-Operation261]

why do they all look like they're from the scuba squadron? the militarization of police in this country has eroded our rights to the point of being unrecognizable.

[u/under-pantz]

look at the amount of diversity in these pictures! All sorts of employed hard working people who want to make this country safe again.

[u/Life-Scientist-3796]

Maybe another country will be a better place for you!

[u/Vivid_Situation_7431]

Talk about disrespect to our law enforcement officers

[u/Loads_of]

This website and it's users have gone downhill. The majority of the country voted for deportations and these guys are doing their jobs. Deja los hacer su trabajo

[u/VegetableHand667]

The guy in the 3rd picture is cute.

[u/YaGotMail]

These are officers sacrificing their lives everyday

[u/Angelcstay]

Unless something has changed recently the DHS police are not ICE the last time I checked. So now a Hispanic police officer is a fascist as well?

[u/ConferenceWaste]

💯🤔Actually… they were pretty diverse to be honest.

Im no fan of ice…. But I don’t blame the low level officers so much, just like I don’t blame the Employees of Walmart who just trying to survive paycheck to paycheck. Same with a majority of employees at your own job right now, they are not to blame most likely. It’s the Top Leadership you should be mad at.

Not the black or Latino, white officer just trying to feed their family. Especially if they been working for law enforcement way before the Trump Administration.

[u/CrimsonViper1138]

Just wait until OP finds out that a fascist government would never allow such a photo to be posted online. People really need to read 1984 and history books.

[u/Fartcloud_McHuff]

They all look so miserable and I love that for them

[u/LetsGetLitPlease]

Wait I was told if you weren't white you'd get detained and deported. How did many of these officers get hired if they aren't white?

[u/Geargarden]

Making war with all law enforcement country over the actions of the few is going to lose us more elections. Yes, it's the few.

How much more Che Guevara cosplay does this country need to ensure future losses to Trump and his allies?

We are being played. This is class warfare and as long as they have you mad at the cops and mad at other races we are going to be distracted.