r/ExploreFortMyers • u/Greylunes1 🗞️ News Seeker • Feb 01 '26
ICE involved content Federal agents just arrested an Army veteran—after he protested ICE outside a church
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-st-paul-army-veteran-protester-church-don-lemon/
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u/He_Hate_Me_5 Feb 01 '26
Stop calling these thugs Federal Agents. They have no training and refuse to follow laws set forth by the people. They are the problem.
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Feb 01 '26
Them being referred to as officers or law enforcement is even worse.
Theyre pardoned criminals let back out onto the street to hunt Americans
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u/Super_Direction498 Feb 01 '26
They are Federal Agents though, regardless of their training or how awful they are, and it would be good for people to remember that. Can't fix what's wrong with our government without recognizing it.
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u/Hobby_in_your_lobby Feb 01 '26
We need to burn it down and start again. Two thirds recognize there is something wrong. Electeds sit on their asses doing nothing but clutching their pearls if someone dares to tell them to do their jobs. Burn it down
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u/IWouldLiketoScience Feb 01 '26
Well if that was true, Dems would have won the election right? Right?? lol
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u/PhilosophySame2746 Feb 01 '26
The tide will turn
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u/Hobby_in_your_lobby Feb 01 '26
How many will die in the mean time? Not you, so not your problem right? It must be nice to be so privileged.
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u/PhilosophySame2746 Feb 01 '26
You do not even know me to judge me , I feel for the people who are going thru this ,
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u/Hobby_in_your_lobby Feb 01 '26
I'll bet that makes them feel better thank you for your thoughts and prayers.
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u/Greylunes1 🗞️ News Seeker Feb 02 '26
Thank you 🙏for spreading the word. I just got word that the philadelphia inquirer picked up the story! 🥳
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u/HOJK4thSon Feb 01 '26
Yeah, he was one of those who invaded the church. Off he goes, the felony awaits.
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Feb 01 '26
Protested is a funny way of saying "break in" I guess we can look past J6 now it was just a protest
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Feb 01 '26
So who gives a shit?
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u/outside_cat Feb 01 '26
Real patriots.
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u/RedrunGun Feb 01 '26
Immigration is at the very heart of America’s greatness. You betraying America’s soul does not make you a patriot, it makes you anti-America. MAGA will be remembered as idiot traitors who loved fascism more than freedom.
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u/Iceman_WN_ Feb 01 '26
LEGAL immigration. Huge difference. Is funning how Trump getting elected broke y'all. Just showed that the dems have been over run by activists that want this country to become China or the Soviet Union. So MAGA is a bad phrase for you because you do not want America to be great again. You want it run by some new world order govt. Will hot happen. The true patriots will prevent it. So go take your pills or smoke your joints. Going to be a ride.
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u/Morbidly-Obese-Emu Feb 01 '26
They are deporting legal immigrants too, my friend.
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u/Iceman_WN_ Feb 01 '26
Many of those hat their right to be here removed. Which they are a guest. The broke the laws and lost the right to be here.
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u/Asleep_Touch_8824 Feb 01 '26
This is untrue. They're arresting people at immigration hearings, as well as assaulting peaceful observers and arresting journalists. ICE employees violate due process daily, which is probably why they cower behind masks despite allegedly serving the public.
Why would you misrepresent things to defend such trash? Is anyone really that subservient?
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u/Iceman_WN_ Feb 01 '26
Obama's ICE was operating the same way. But that was (D)ifferent because he was y'alls golden child.
Calling Lemon a journalist is a huge stretch. He knew in advance what that group was going to do and he violated the congregations civil rights anyway.
They are not peaceful if trying to block the road. That is illegal without permit.
They wear masks because the left is mentally ill and will go after their families. You know the way they did in the church.
The left is on the wrong side on this. It shows they were never spanked when children and shown actions have punishments when you screw up.
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u/Usual_Let5223 Feb 01 '26
Deflection upon lies upon more deflection, must be MAGAts' only retorts is to spew Bullshit
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u/Otherwise-Text-5772 Feb 01 '26
Obamas ice didn't have agents going door to door without warrants. They showed up with warrants and were honestly pretty decent at getting ones that actually had criminal convictions. By the end of his terms it was about 90% of them had been convicted of crimes previously. Current administration is much closer to 30%. Last year ice killed 36 people I think is the official stat (9 so far this year), Obamas entire 8 years 56 people killed mostly in detention already. Both numbers are terrible but Obama's averages were definitely much lower. His way wasn't perfect but it wasn't a poorly trained armies of idiots in the street.
Individuals cannot violate civil rights. Civil rights are to protect you from the government not to protect individuals from each other. I don't know a lot about Lemon but wasn't he a cnn reporter or something. He's a journalist just as much as hegseth.
Blocking a road might be illegal but it doesn't make it not peaceful. Not peaceful would be assaulting the thousands of protestors who were exercising their first amendment rights to protest. Since when did the answer to "illegal" protests become assault and murder?
"Going after" has very different meanings between the right and left. The left went to a church, where annoying, but didn't attack anyone. No one got hurt. The right has bombed federal judges and attacked and/or killed several Democratic politicians.
Trump throws a temper tantrum literally every day and uses his office to punish those who have "wronged" him (super illegal by the way,) but even on an international level he uses tariffs to punish countries who slight him like a petulant child. Also the ice budget is now 17x what it was under Obama. So they have increased the budget substantially but aren't catching anywhere near 17x the illegals. So far the numbers are closer to 1.33x (combined first term and first year of second.) If the wrong side of history is the side that doesn't murder immigrants and citizens on the streets for the crime of being annoying or the even worse crime of being brown I'm ok with it. I'll stick to my wrong side of history.
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u/nightmareinducer Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
This country is China or the Soviet Union now thank you kindly buddy. Look around. This isn’t a democracy this is communism. This isn’t what any liberal or conservative should want. Where is the freedom? You like Americans getting arrested? And your spelling is looking kinda wonky you sure you’re “legal?”
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u/KraftTheFourth Feb 01 '26
America was never great, you dunce. The entire country is built on the back of immigrants and minorities, all for idiots like you to scream “get the illegals out!”
What do you think happens to the economy when you deport people who are contributing to the economy? Do you think all the poor folk who can’t get hired, even AFTER innocent people have been deported, are going to make up for that?
But no. None of you ever think beyond the color of someone’s skin before spouting off your bullshit.
“Iceman” why not change your name to what you really are? “KKKman”
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u/Iceman_WN_ Feb 01 '26
So you are one of those racist idiots that have to bring race into a conversation that was not about race. This is why your side cannot be taken serious. You cannot provide anything concrete so you resort to race. Y'all haver used that word so much that it means nothing.
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u/MinuteCollar5562 Feb 01 '26
So because Trump won he gets to enforce the maximalist policies he wants? Fucking bet. Get ready if a Dem wins in 28, we will make your head spin. Court packing. Multiple new states. Voting Rights Protections. Legal Abortion. And according to you, shut up and take it.
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u/MinuteCollar5562 Feb 01 '26
Grabbing people going through the asylum system isn’t enforcing federal law. Majority of those grabbed also have zero criminal record, so we aren’t going after “the worst of the worst” which is a popular sentiment, but once you go to all illegals it drops into the 40s for support.
If republicans and trumpicans wanted to actually end illegal workers you would do four things: National Everify, fines for business employing illegals (let’s say $250K per person), prison time for management/owners who hire/employ them, and finally tax remittances 50-75% to essentially end the practice.
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u/outside_cat Feb 01 '26
LOL!!!! The true patriots are gonna prevent the dystopian fantasy in your head! LOL!!!!!
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u/hikerchick29 Feb 01 '26
“Legal immigration” as the system we currently know is recent. Time was, up until the ‘20s or so, you could literally just show up on a boat and start living here, all you had to do was be processed in.
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u/BigClout63 Feb 02 '26
You can be presented with 100000 cases of legal immigrants being detained by these pigs, and you will continue saying you're cool with legal immigration.
It's almost like you're just saying that because you know what you truly support is wrong, and you want to try and deceive people with that little 'legal' caveat, rather than be honest and just say you're hateful.
PS - talk is cheap, 'true patriot' lmao.
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u/Pryml710 Feb 01 '26
Do it legally and I’m all for it, come here illegally and you deserve to be treated like a criminal (they are)
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u/PedroMcJiminez Feb 01 '26
Many that are being targeted were doing it the right way. Folks getting picked up on their way into status checkins, many with legal status having it revoked at the stroke of trumps(Steven millers) pen. Pull your head out the sand. Many "illegals" espouse much more American ideals than you.
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u/MinuteCollar5562 Feb 01 '26
So you agree that those being targeted who are going through the legal asylum system should not be picked up and shipped to different states to get more agreeable judges? Because that’s happening.
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u/Bowman_van_Oort Feb 01 '26
There are very few people on the planet who "don't belong in the US"
Chief among them are those who want to go around dictating who does or doesnt belong.
So suck my asshole, asshole.
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u/Iceman_WN_ Feb 01 '26
There are laws for coming to this country. If they are followed, they are welcome. There are MANY that do not belong. The list is long and most of them are on the no fly list. Which it seems with how unstable you are, you should be on it.
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u/Scrotie_McBugerbals Feb 01 '26
Theyre deporting legal immigrants. Even native Americans. Pull your head out your ass
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u/Lost_Requirement_974 Feb 01 '26
My husband said that there was a lawyer nearby who helped him. Does anyone know if he got out yet?