Amid unprecedented backlash against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, California Gov. Gavin Newsom—considered a leading contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination—is being accused of giving the increasingly violent agency a pass after an interview with right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro in which he softened his criticism of ICE.

In recent days, following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good last week in Minneapolis, officers of ICE and other federal agencies have been documented engaging in blatant racial profiling, unconstitutional “citizenship checks,” and extreme uses of physical force, including dragging a disabled US citizen from her car on the way to a doctor’s appointment, as the Associated Press reported Friday.

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    11 hours ago

    Cripes, this is like, easy-mode. The way to push back without giving them a soundbite is dead simple:

    Our ICE officers obviously are not terrorists.

    Reply: “Is it obvious? What distinguishes the way they act from terrorists, Ben?”

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      9 hours ago

      Goes to show how out-of-touch from reality these major political parties are. It’s just not sustainable when the backbone of any and every economy (the human worker who toils day after day) isn’t able to survive the crushing pressure from the elites (paying huge taxes while the elite find loopholes for paying their fair share; the economic disease from their corruption; privatised gains and socialised losses for the elites’ business ventures)

      And Every. Single. Bloody. Time. it ends in mass violent revolution. The so-called “geniuses” that own the extreme majority of the world’s wealth really have no fucking clue what theyre doing and what the consequences of their selfish and short-sighted actions are.

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        The rich don’t think past the next quarter. Besides, whats a doomsday bunker cost, $10 or $20 mill? That’s pocket change to a billionaire. Everyone of them thinks they are 100% safe from the unwashed masses, even though they probably have a mexican lady cleaning their house and making their meals.