TERROR: ICE, Military & Posse Comitatus
2017
2017-02-12 During a Face the Nation interview, Stephen Miller denounced Judiciary power, talked about immigration, and announced “a great rebuilding of the armed forces” with “unquestioned military strength”.
2025 January
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14074 Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices To Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety.
2025 May
2025-05-22 ICE started showing up at immigration hearings to arrest people.
2025-05-29 On Fox News, Stephen Miller declared the administration was pursuing “a minimum of 3000 arrests for ICE every day”.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-aims-3000-arrests-illegal-immigrants-each-day
2025-05-29 Tom Homan confirmed a Fox host inquiry about a 3000 per day arrest quota, stating they were increasing their efforts tenfold.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-aims-3000-arrests-illegal-immigrants-each-day
2025 June
2025-06-07 National Guard troops were deployed to Los Angeles in response to anti-ICE raids.
2025 July
2025-07-01 The Senate passed an unprecedented $170B (billion) in spending for immigration enforcement.
2025-07-07 During a press conference Karoline Leavitt addressed Operation Summer Heat which she stated, “has our murder rate trending in the lowest direction in United States history”.
2025-07-16 The National Guard pulled 2000 troops back out of Los Angeles after numerous protests and allegations that the Trump administration was violating the Posse Comitatus Act.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5469676/la-national-guard-deployment
2025-07-30 In a court document, the White House denied that there was a 3000-per-day arrest quota, stating that it was more of a goal.
2025 August
2025-08-05 Trump threatened federal control of Washington D.C. after Edward “Big Balls” Coristine was attacked.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114977985620971126
2025-08-11 Regardless of the 30-year-low in crime, Trump continued his authoritarian creep and sent the National Guard to Washington D.C.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2110me5g4o
2025-08-24 Trump threatened to send troops to Baltimore after a verbal dispute with the Maryland Governor. Following Governor Wes Moore ‘s invitation to show Trump Baltimore’s low crime rates, Trump sent out a message on social media, accusing Moore of fudging his figures.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wes-moore-trump-crime-rhetoric-face-the-nation-08-24-2025/
2025-08-25 National Guard troops in Washington D.C. were given orders to carry weapons.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/politics/national-guard-dc-weapons
2025-08-25 During a press conference in the Oval office, Trump made threats to send military forces into Chicago.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/25/trump-national-guard-chicago-00523253
2025-08-25 In a statement to media, Governor Pritzker issued a warning of authoritarian creep and a dangerous power grab.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1608455650508903
2025-08-28 Tom Homan stated he was going to ramp up ICE in Los Angeles and stage in Chicago.
2025-08-31 Kristi Noem confirmed plans to extend ICE into Chicago.
2025 September
2025-09-02 A judge ruled that Trump broke the law by sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/trump-national-guard-posse-comitatus/
2025-09-02 Trump attempted to utilize the Texas National Guard for deployment to Chicago Illinois.
2025-09-04 A man in Bremerton Washington was caught impersonating an officer, casting further doubt on the legitimacy of masked or undercover agents making immigration arrests.
2025-09-06 Trump released an AI image on social media of himself with the caption “Chipocalypse now” to troll the Chicago mayor with civil war.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115158096026629509
https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/1964367057052701152
2025-09-08 The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on Los Angeles ICE raids, allowing ICE more freedom to make immigration stops.
2025-09-08 DHS launched Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, politicizing a drunk driving hit and run in Illinois, and pointing fingers at the governor’s sanctuary policies.
2025-09-12 Trump told Fox News that the head of Union Pacific asked him to send National Guard troops to Saint Louis Missouri (loophole?).
2025-09-15 Trump sent National Guard troops to Memphis Tennessee regardless of a 25-year-low in crime.
2025-09-15 Trump threatened in a Truth Social post to call an emergency to federalize Washington D.C. after Mayor Muriel Bowser stated they would not cooperate with ICE.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/politics/trump-washington-dc-emergency-ice
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115206570863756188
2025-09-20 Faith leaders held a prayer march in front of Naval Station Great Lakes in Chicago demanding ICE agents leave.
2025-09-21 California Governor Newsom signed a law banning law enforcement from wearing masks, but the acting US Attorney stated they will not comply with that law
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/us/california-mask-ban-law-enforcement-newsom
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/essayli-newsom-federal-agent-mask-ban/
2025-09-27 Trump alleged Portland ICE facilities were under siege by Antifa. Trump tweeted on social media that Portland was “war ravaged” and that he planned to authorize “full force”. Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer reposted. City leaders held a press conference to warn the public not to “take the bait”. News footage showed a peaceful protest, including a man outside an ICE facility with a bubble maker.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/29/timeline-donald-trump-pressure-portland/
2025-09-29 Multiple news outlets outed Fox News for using viral riot footage from 2020 to sensationalize a small peaceful protest in Portland.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/05/trump-portland-video-protests
https://x.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1963819280249807236
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/oregon-trump-national-guard-troops-portland
2025-09-29 MSNBC interviewed retired US Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling who expressed concern about the militarized approach in U.S. cities.
2025-09-30 During an MSNBC interview, Senator Tammy Duckworth stated, “Our troops did not sign up to be on the streets to intimidate our neighbors”.
2025 October
2025-10-01 By October 2025, every single city where the military had been deployed has been governed ONLY by Democratic mayors.
2025-10-01 After it was announced Bad Bunny would be the Super Bowl halftime show, Benny Johnson asked senior advisor Corey Lewandowski via his podcast if ICE agents would be present at the event. Kristi Noem confirmed this later, on a separate podcast on October 4th.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/trump-adviser-ice-super-bowl-lx/3957699/
2025-10-02 During a Memphis Safe Task Force conference, Stephen Miller told law enforcement they were “unleashed” and stated, “we are about to provide you with a level of support that you cannot even imagine”.
2025-10-17 Tennessee leaders sued Trump for deploying the National Guard to Memphis.
2025-10-27 During his visit to Japan Trump stated he might send full-service military to our cities instead of the National Guard.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-he-could-send-army-navy-air-force-marines-to-us-cities/
2025 November
2025-11-14 The Trump administration announced plans to expand immigration crackdown to New Orleans. DHS called it Operation Swamp Sweep, which they later upgraded in December to Operation Catahoula Crunch and added both armored vehicles and Special ops.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charlotte-new-orleans-border-patrol-immigration-trump/
https://lailluminator.com/2025/12/03/immigration-new-orleans/
2025-11-14 ICE agents prepared to go to Charlotte, North Carolina for a new crackdown on immigration. Local departments stated they were not aware of the arrival.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/us/charlotte-north-carolina-immigration-border-patrol
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-immigration-raids-begin-charlotte-nc-2025-11-15/
2025 December
2025-12-31 News outlets reported ICE started using online influencer and geo-targeting to recruit a specific type of ICE candidate; anyone who followed UFC fights or NASCAR, lived near military bases, or exhibit conservative values.
https://mashable.com/article/ice-recruiting-social-media-influencers-leaked-document
2026 January
2026-01-13 Trump ordered the DOJ to send in 3000 more ICE troops into Minnesota, and told Minnesotans, “Fear not, great people of Minnesota, the day of reckoning and retribution is coming!”.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/13/trump-minnesota-reckoning-retribution-warning-00724534
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minnesota-immigration-ice-trump-minneapolis-01-13-26
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115888070937502023
2026-01-21 ICE launched “Operation Catch of the Day” in Maine and began entering homes without judicial warrants.
2026 February
2026-02-03 After multiple killings by ICE agents, the White House sent Tom Homan to Minneapolis and withdrew 700 of the 3000 agents from the city.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/700-federal-agents-leave-minneapolis-tom-homan/
2026-02-17 According to news articles, Kristi Noem diverted resources away from a search and rescue mission with the Coast Guard to find a missing service member so she could send them to enforce immigration.
2026-02-19 Pete Hegseth sent out a memo, pressuring DoD employees to volunteer for immigration enforcement with DHS on up to 180-day rotations.
https://www.wired.com/story/pete-hegseth-is-pushing-defense-employees-to-volunteer-for-dhs/
2026 March
2026-03-05 Trump finally fired incompetent and reckless Kristi Noem, stating he did not know she had spent $250M in taxpayer money on ad campaigns during her reign of ICE terror. He replaced her with Senator Markwayne Mullin.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-homeland-security-noem-mullin-38c583b3cef97b4ef60d84b8f8b5961a
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/05/nx-s1-5667546/kristi-noem-homeland-security-fired
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/us/politics/kristi-noem-markwayne-mullin-trump.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedzep6gp07o
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bodycam-video-ice-fatal-shooting-ruben-ray-martinez-texas/
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/south-padre-immigration-officer-shooting/
2026-03-19 During Senator Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation hearing before being appointed the new head of DHS, Rand Paul confronted Mullin about a past comment where he said he understood why Paul was assaulted and suffered rib fractures.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/rand-paul-mullin-dhs-hearing-senate
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5789478-rand-paul-markwayne-mullin-dhs/
2026-03-21 Trump threatened to send ICE agents to airports starting Monday March 23rd if Democrats didn’t agree to fund DHS ICE agents. Trump wrote on Truth Social, “…ICE agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia…”. The Washington Post in their article wrote, “Border czar Tom Homan said ICE agents will be at airports to help TSA agents…”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116267892671497457
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObltrGAQQS8&list=WL&index=8
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airport-delays-dhs-funding/
2026-03-23 During a War Room podcast, Steve Bannon said having ICE at airports was a “perfect test-run” for the midterms”, meaning, to have ICE agents present at polling places. An article quoted him as saying, “We can use this as a test run, as a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-8SGdG5AVY
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aeeULQ384v4
2026-03-24 The “Border Czar” Tom Homan and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy shared conflicting stories about ICE at our nation’s airports. Duffy claimed that ICE agents are well-trained on X-ray machines and identifying security risks, saying quote, “They know how to run the X-ray machines because they are, again, under homeland security”. Homan said they were NOT trained and won’t be handling that type of security detail, saying quote, “I don’t see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine, because we’re not trained in that”.
https://time.com/article/2026/03/23/ice-airports-homan-duffy-trump-administration/
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5795316-homan-ice-tsa-plan-dhs-shutdown/
2026-03-25 Watch Adam Mockler arguments about the legality of ICE, free and fair elections, and the Iran war (the meat of the interview is at timestamp 7:33).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_cLP8iiKZw&list=WL&index=5
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cnn-guest-demands-answer-scott-031709832.html