Trump's ICE Gestapo Wins More Funding With Democrats Votes as Children Are Detained

23 Jan 2026 · 24 min · 11 chapters

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Episode Summary: Trump's ICE Gestapo Wins More Funding With Democrats Votes as Children Are Detained

Podcast Overview Title: IHIP News Hosts: Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan Description: Progressive podcasters provide comedic and feel-good commentary on political news, with a focus on current events and issues affecting the American populace.

Episode Highlights

  • Main Topic: The episode discusses the recent funding increase for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and the implications of Democratic representatives voting in favor of this funding despite concerns about human rights abuses, particularly against children.

Key Points

  1. ICE Funding and Human Rights Violations
  2. Washington Post report confirmed the death of an ICE detainee as a homicide due to suffocation.
  3. Authorities in Minnesota report increased ICE activity, including the detention of children.
  4. The hosts express outrage over the use of a five-year-old child as "bait" for immigration enforcement, describing it as dehumanizing.
  1. Criticism of Democratic Leaders
  2. Host Jennifer Welch criticizes Democratic leaders for their complicity in funding ICE, calling out specific representatives who voted in favor of the funding.
  3. Emphasizes that Democrats should take a firmer stand against ICE's actions, which they deem as terrorizing American citizens and breaking laws.
  4. Names seven Democrats who voted to fund ICE, labeling them as "traitors" to the American idea.
  1. Moral Responsibility of the Democratic Party
  2. The hosts argue that the Democratic Party is failing its base by not opposing ICE's funding more vehemently and are engaging in political theater rather than genuine opposition.
  3. Welch calls for stronger leadership within the party and suggests that inadequate responses lead to public disillusionment.
  1. Public Opinion on ICE
  2. Cites polling data indicating that a significant portion of voters, including Trump's base, disapprove of ICE's handling of immigration enforcement.
  3. Suggests that the Democratic Party is out of touch with the electorate's views on ICE and immigration.
  1. Cultural Commentary
  2. Discussion on the role of propaganda in dehumanizing individuals targeted by ICE and how figures like Tucker Carlson perpetuate a narrative of white nationalism.
  3. The hosts argue that the focus on demographics is antiquated and that multiculturalism enriches society.
  1. Call to Action
  2. The hosts urge listeners to demand accountability from their representatives and flood phone lines with opposition to ICE funding.
  3. Encourage engagement in political processes and push for a party that truly represents progressive values.

Key Discussion Points

  • Use of Children in Enforcement Actions:
  • The ethics of using children as bait by ICE is fundamentally questioned, with a call for accountability.
  • Democratic Complicity:
  • The episode critiques the lack of cohesive opposition from the Democratic Party, particularly in the context of recent funding votes.
  • Understanding Public Sentiment:
  • The hosts highlight the disconnect between what party leaders believe will appease constituents and the actual public sentiment regarding ICE.

Conclusion The episode serves as a passionate rallying cry for increased accountability from both political parties regarding immigration enforcement and human rights practices, particularly highlighting the moral implications of using children in these processes. The hosts emphasize the need for a stronger, more principled opposition to ICE and call for active listener engagement in political advocacy.

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ICE's Actions and Impact on Families

0:45 to 2:30

Exploring the implications of ICE's actions, particularly regarding children and families in Minnesota.

“We have an American government sending a goon squad on citizens.”

The Political Response to ICE

2:30 to 5:00

Analyzing the reactions from Democratic leadership regarding ICE funding and enforcement.

“And now they're trotting around five-year-olds.”

Critique of Democratic Strategy

5:00 to 7:30

A critical look at the Democratic Party's approach to handling ICE and its funding.

“tried to overturn a free and fair election, and his supporters tried to hang his vice president.”

The Public Sentiment on ICE and Law Enforcement

7:30 to 10:00

Discussing how public opinion is shifting regarding ICE and law enforcement actions.

“Vicente Gonzalez voted with the Gestapo.”

Call to Action Against ICE Funding

10:00 to 12:00

Urging listeners to take action against Democratic representatives who support ICE funding.

“This is banana republic, third world shit.”

The Broader Implications of ICE's Actions

12:00 to 14:00

Examining the consequences of ICE's actions on society and the rule of law.

“And time and time again, we go back that it's us, the people.”

ICE's Recent Actions and Public Sentiment

14:02 to 14:48

Learn about the recent actions of ICE and the public's perception of their effectiveness.

“And moving along here, ICE for the last week was parading around Greg Bovino that there were all of these pedophiles on the loose and sexual assault offenders on the loose.”

Critique of Democratic Leadership

14:49 to 15:46

Examine the shortcomings of Democratic leaders in addressing ICE's actions.

“I know the Republicans are kind of eh on that.”

The Role of Propaganda in Dehumanization

15:47 to 17:04

Explore how propaganda contributes to the dehumanization of individuals targeted by ICE.

“I'll tell you what, we'll find seven people to vote with the fascists and the Nazis and the incompetent pink arm, low T emotionally stunted psychopaths.”

Racism and Multiculturalism in America

17:05 to 23:01

Discuss the impact of racism and the value of multiculturalism in American society.

“Vance, as ISIS doing all of these things, you have to understand how propaganda works.”
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Call for Stronger Opposition Against ICE

23:02 to 23:54

Hear a passionate plea for political leaders to oppose ICE and advocate for human rights.

“We stand with the Minneapolis Police Department.”
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0:04Yesterday, the Washington Post confirmed that the death of an ICE 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, Maine has some massive immigration problem. But it is very clear that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio And all of the fake MAGA Christians want ICE to be Trump's Gestapo, 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.

0:55So what do we have here? We have the executive branch that's 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 Kavanaugh, endorsed the Kavanaugh rule that says that you can stop somebody based on their skin color. So who's going to stand up for us? The Democrats, right? So Ken Martin, the head of the DNC, tweets the following. ICE detained a five-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 five-year-old asylum seeker detained as ICE expands enforcement in Minnesota, local school officials said.

1:46The next slide, look at this precious child. The family of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos has a pending asylum case, but no order of deportation directing that they'd 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. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department of 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.

2:26I believe the Department of Homeland Security is lying. They use this child as bait. This administration lies with impunity. And the purpose of this is to dehumanize everybody, dehumanize the guy that was killed in El Paso, dehumanize 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 fucking bitch. And now they're trotting around five-year-olds. And so when I saw Ken Martin, the president of the head of the DNC, tweet that, I thought, okay, good.

3:15We got us an opposition party here. Well, Hakeem Jeffries says, Ken, hold my beer. and Hakeem Jeffries has an opportunity to whip the votes into shape. And that's what a 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.

4:05Put up Hakeem Jeffries. The headline is Jeffries Won't Whip Vote Against ICE Funding. This is reporting from the American Prospect. Jonathan Cohn 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 6th as a party. We cannot let criminals get away with crimes.

4:56And 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. And look at how rapidly and unhinged and maniacal and criminal and diabolical the second regime is. But what are the Democrats doing? Appeasing. Hakeem Jeffries 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 going to allow them to vote no, but I'm not going to whip. And I'm going to allow you seven people to give these Republicans the money to fund ICE.

5:42And 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 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, are not learning, is that the base has moved. The base is on to how they try to crowdsource the moralities. There's no North Star that, listen, the right is going to tell you that we're somehow anti-law enforcement. This isn't law enforcement. 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.

6:40We 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. We have Marie Perez, saw a five-year-old used as bait, saw Renee Good executed, voted to give that organization more money. Jared Golden votes to appease a Nazi Gestapo, a lawless crime and disorder, mafia style government run by a man with full-blown dementia. Laura Gillen, a woman, saw the way a mother of three was killed, shot, executed, and called a fucking bitch. She voted to give that man more money, that organization more power. Vicente Gonzalez voted with the Gestapo.

7:39Tom Suozzi voted to appease fascist dictators, mafia, crime bosses, murderers, abusers. Don Davis, the same, voted to embolden and empower a reckless, lawless government organization, ICE. And Henry Queller, same thing, doesn't give a shit, voted with all of these lawless hypocrites. This is beyond the pale. This is a moment for the Democratic Party to quit fucking 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 health care is complicated.

8:31And 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 liberties. And here they have the perfect North Star. 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.

9:17We stand with the police officers of Minnesota who said that these ICE agents are singling out off-duty black and brown police officers, roughing them up and asking them for their papers. You better bet your fucking 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. Hakeem 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 primaried. And quite frankly, I think Hakeem Jeffries needs to be primaried.

9:57This is unacceptable. People are getting terrorized by their government. This is banana republic, third world shit. 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. Adam Carlson tweets, maybe the most insane finding in this poll, a majority, 51 percent of non-white college voters disapprove of how ICE is handling its job. You guys, 51 % of white non-college voters disapprove of ICE.

10:40This is a moderate to conservative position in the electorate. He goes on to say white non-college voters are one of Trump's strongest groups. They backed him 66 to 32 in 2024 and gave him a 57-41 job approval in this same poll. Sarah Longwell says, brutal new New York Times in a 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 traitors 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?

11:41Because even the MAGA base, who you always try to placate to and confirm their 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, who is it? Because it's not Hakeem. It's not Chuckles. It's not those seven. Who is the opposition? And time and time again, we go back that it's us, the people. We need to flood the Capitol phone lines that this is absolutely unacceptable. Those seven people plus Hakeem Jeffries for not whipping the votes is the most unacceptable thing I have seen. I expect everything that this administration is doing.

12:27I 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 administration does. They wake up, diminish, demean, dehumanize people, abuse people, 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 memeing, 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 people are going to do.

13:06The Democrats voted against it, but these seven people didn't. Hakeem 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 dog walked by Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump that lies and says it's an America first agenda and sends Argentina$40 billion, dollars, plays patty cake nonstop with Benjamin Netanyahu, rolled out his big plans to develop Gaza on a gravesite of a genocide. And the Democrats don't have the moral clarity to stand up against. It's just, I mean, I just feel like we're cooked.

13:54If the Democrats, if Hakeem 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 Greg Bovino that there were all of these pedophiles on the loose and 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 6th people that were pardoned that keep recommitting crimes. I think that it is a universal viewpoint, with the exception of Moses Mike Grinder-Johnson and some others in Congress, that everybody opposes pedophilia and thinks that these people should put behind bars.

14:47I 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 people's faces, using a five-year-old for bait 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 popped 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 bulwark target of viral botched ice raid was already in prison.

15:46And 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 T emotionally stunted psychopaths. We'll have seven people appease them and the rest of us can look like we're tough guys. And Hakeem, 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 gonna be despite yourself. It's gonna be because Donald Trump is so bad.

16:31But all of us out here in what remain and 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. 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 Greene, J.D. 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.

17:23And a lot of their messaging is overtly white nationalists and covertly white nationalists. 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 Fox News freebacers 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 five-year-old little boy of the murder of Renee Good because they use just straight up nativism, tribalism, and racism as a soothing balm for many people in this country.

18:12And here is Tucker Carlson trying to scare you about the disappearance of white people. Play the clip. So here's what they were. The biggest city in the United States then and now is 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%. 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 almost iron age way of thinking.

19:05but it is very real. And when you have even minorities in the MAGA movement, the Tate 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 appeased to this. So it's like at every turn, the patriarchy gets deference. White supremacy gets deference. 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 versus black.

19:59I 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 hand in hand with what's going on with ICE. This type of propaganda is played in conjunction with people seeing egregious human rights violations.

20:49a five-year-old boy with a cute little beanie on with little ears used as bait by ice. I would think that even maybe the most horrific racist grandmother sitting somewhere might see that and go, 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 as clinging on to this tribalism is going to be obsolete. Like it's utterly insane.

21:35And 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.

22:20When they see immigrants having something that they think should be theirs. That racism is just 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 party. I am begging. Hakeem Jeffries. 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 North Star is this. Ice is foobar. 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.

23:12Fucking 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 cruelty is fun. We don't. We don't. We care about this country. We want leaders that do too. Quit playing patty cake with fascists and either start whipping 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.

23:55Unfortunately, I'll probably be back with more disappointing news.

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