Stop Comparing ICE To The Gestapo, Homeland Security Says

[Jilly_in_VA]

The Department of Homeland Security is now seeking to distance itself from comparisons to Nazi Germany after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) called its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents a “modern-day Gestapo.”

“It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo,” Homeland Security said Sunday on its official X account, referencing the police force that apprehended and deported groups of people labeled political enemies in Nazi Germany.

“Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong,” the department said. “Our message is clear: DO NOT come to this country illegally. If you do, we will arrest you, deport you and you will never return.”

The post also echoed a statistic contained in last week’s statement from DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who said “attacks and smears” against ICE have led to a “413% increase in assaults,” although she did not provide more details.

Video of ICE operations around the country has sounded alarm bells among immigration and democracy advocates as agents with face coverings are seen wrangling people into their custody. President Donald Trump and his supporters say that they are targeting gang members and violent criminals, although in many cases, the administration is seeking to deport people without allowing them a chance to prove they are not who the administration says they are.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stop-comparing-ice-to-the-gestapo-homeland-security-says_n_682b2df4e4b02ef0f55d5854

Apparently the comparison makes Frau General Kristi and her henchmen uncomfortable. Good. Keep it up!

[dalton99a]

1. No-badge/no-ID masked jack-booted thugs kicking down doors and grabbing people at will

They are Trump's Gestapo

[Rebl2]

5. Also seems like

kidnapping to me.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. Make no mistake,

that's exactly what it is.

[SomedayKindaLove]

75. Kidnapping there is usually a ransom

This is human trafficking.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

77. Good point.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. Even much worse than Hitler's original Gestapo,

under Been A Dick Donald, they've become Gestapo 2.0 with much more technology available to violate rights.

[groundloop]

39. How many of them are Proud Boys and other J6 criminals....

who were pardoned by tRump?

[RVN VET71]

92. I think it probable that at least some are one or the other

The only reason to wear a mask is to avoid identification. The only reason persons on "official" government business would disguise themselves is that they fear repercussions from the public if their affiliations with fascist street violence and the insurrection were known.

So, yes, they are either Baby Boys or January 6th traitors. Maybe not all of them. I'm sure their boss, the dog killer, would want to protect the actual thugs and fascist traitors by requiring everyone to mask up.

[Jack Valentino]

82. Nazis is as Nazis does...

If they wear masks, don't present ID or a warrant---
I would support those who are assaulted that way
in exercising their rights to self-defense under the much-touted 2nd Amendment

[EarlG]

2. At least our side knows how to say "Gestapo"

‘Gazpacho police’: Nazi gaffe lands Republican congresswoman in the soup

The extremist Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene triggered a wave of viral jokes on Wednesday after ranting about the “gazpacho police” patrolling the Capitol building in Washington DC.

Greene was apparently mixing up the famously cold Spanish soup gazpacho with the Gestapo – the brutal Nazi-era secret police in Germany.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/09/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-police

[MarineCombatEngineer]

10. She can't help it,

after all, she is an idiot.

[erronis]

34. Pretty sure margerita takes her gazpacho with cojones - raw.

[brush]

66. Yep, bleached blond bad built butch body.

Cojones raw will do it.

[enigmania]

93. The "Brain Trust".

[The Madcap]

3. The key words here are...

"Never return." That can have many meanings. The question is whether they will eventually take things to that obvious parallel with Nazi Germany.

[erronis]

35. The "disappeared" - the obvious intent.

[Basso8vb]

4. If the shoe fits...

[lastlib]

31. ...don't kill the dog for dragging it off.

(There---finished it for ya.)

[wcmagumba]

6. If it walks like the Gestapo and looks like the Gestapo, it might as well be the Gestapo...thanks t-rump and Kristi...

Sieg Heil, right in the Fuhrer's face.....

[LW1977]

9. Well if it walks like a duck..

[atreides1]

11. Oh well

The Gestapo followed the law and obeyed the courts, while following orders!

ICE just follows orders, which makes them worse then the Gestapo!!!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

13. At the Nuremburg trials,

didn't the Nazi's on trial try that same defense?
How well did that work out for them?

[orangecrush]

19. Good point

[meow2u3]

12. Act like the Gestapo, get called the Gestapo nt

[sakabatou]

14. They could stop acting as them, Noem

[Progressive dog]

15. Law enforcement in the US is supposed to follow the Constitution,

not some psychopathic grifter. Until ICE officers begin to act like patriots and defend the law from Trump, I'll call them gestapo.

[hildegaard28]

16. Stop comparing them

To the Gestapo or what? They'll come to your house without a warrant, bust down your door, steal all your stuff, and arrest and hold you without due process, like the Gestapo?

[lastlib]

33. Well, if Unterfeuhrer Kristi doesn't like "Gestapo", in the alternative, we could....

call them "Stasi," or "KGB" or.....

[allegorical oracle]

17. It's that does-shoe-fit thingy. And DHS knows it fits or else it wouldn't be yipping

about it. ICE Barbie is scrambling because she's inept.

DHS needs to come clean and admit that it keeps changing the playbook. One day, it's "the worst of the worst" being hunted. Then it's any immigrant, legal or not. Or it's a child with cancer, or the Mayor of Newark, NJ.

Truth is, DHS doesn't know anything except threatening, whining, and racking up numbers of human beings that will please djt and Herr Miller.

[orangecrush]

18. Or what?

Gestapo Barbie?

[MineralMan]

20. Unmask them, then. Make them wear name tags.

Have them not act like the Gestapo.

[JustAnotherGen]

21. Um I'm actually

Comparing the Stasi AND the Gestapo to ICE.

[patphil]

22. Sickening? I guess the truth is enough to make them sick.

But not sick enough to make them clean up their act.
What they're doing is immoral, un-Christian, and un-American.
If they don't want ICE to be compared to the Gestapo, then they should stop acting like the Gestapo.
All this rush-rush hurry up and deport these people without a chance to defend themselves makes it obvious that Homeland Security knows what they're doing is wrong, but they don't want to have to defend their actions in court.

[Gary 50]

23. Let's get those "smears and attacks " up 5000%.

[zorbasd]

106. Yeah, the left just doesn't have the resources

to propagate the truth as the right does with lies...sad.

[Ping Tung]

24. From now on they shall be known as members of Don's Garden Club whose task is to deport alien dandelions

[multigraincracker]

25. Ok, but is it ok to call them and GROP Brownshirts?

[lastlib]

26. Hey, Kristi!

If ya don't wanna be CALLED Gestapo---don't Gestapo. Simple.

BTW, how is your dog? Did it ever recover from you KILLING it??

[Turbineguy]

27. Comparing ICE to the Gestapo

Gee, I wonder where people got that idea?

[quakerboy]

28. ICE should have been disbanded

Once they let themselves (apparently eagerly) be used to harass US citizens participating in political protests, they became illegitimate. They next responsible person in power after that should have disbanded or at least gutted and completely reformed the organization. Not doing so was a huge failure that will cost our nation deeply.

[MichMan]

79. Abolishing ICE should be the goal of everyone chasing the nomination in 2028.

[usonian]

29. Go tell it on the mountain: Jesus arrested in immigration enforcement action.

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2025/04/22/vermont-migrants-arrested-dairy-farm-workers/83220821007/

At Pleasant Valley Farms in Berkshire, Vermont.

Jesus Mendez Hernandez (25 years old) among detainees.

[Blues Heron]

30. keep up the pressure! they are feeling it! The sound of their whining is music to my ears! Its like a sweet lullaby

As in bye bye sick Nazi fucks!

[Initech]

32. ICE is a gestapo, and Tom Homan is a fucking maniac terrorist. Get over yourselves.

And the only reason immigrants are an issue is to distract you from the people who are really stealing your money, your jobs, and your livelihood - Wall St billionaires.

[BonnieJW]

100. Don't forget

The billionaire techies

[Ocelot II]

36. So maybe ICE should stop behaving like the Gestapo?

[sinkingfeeling]

37. Then stop acting like the Gestapo.

[Picaro]

38. Darling Kristi would perhaps prefer....

Savak (the Shah’s secret police)? DAS (the secret police in Colombia)? FSB (Russian secret police)?

But I think we should keep using gestapo. Everyone knows that one. And it’s obviously getting a reaction.

What all secret police have in common is that they do not exist in democracies. DAS, Savak, and the Nazi Gestapo no longer exist. The FSB— well, they still exist. Because Russia is anything but a democracy.

ICE have very quickly mutated into a secret police. When this is over— and it will be over—ICE should be disbanded and defunded. The enthusiastic participants in these extrajudicial kidnappings should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

[Attilatheblond]

45. She who busies herself playing dress up needs to read the Bill of Rights

and the courts need to hold her accountable, swiftly and with extreme prejudice. You know, like the prejudice she shows others who don't look like most of the people in the Dakotas.

[enigmania]

94. Reading is woke, evidently.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. Homeland Security says we're ON TARGET. . . . . nt

[Moostache]

41. If you work for I.C.E. and violate human rights you WILL face justice eventually.

Take THAT to the bank. You will stand tall before the man and if you are guilty, you WILL be punished accordingly.
That is guaranteed to happen.

None of the death camp guards thought that they would be prosecuted either. That may be a more apt comparison than the Gestapo or the SS in my eyes. Doing things - like hiding your face and wearing masks to execute your orders - that make you clearly appear to be guilty of nefarious actions does not SCREAM "HEY, we're just innocents doing a job here"...

I.C.E. agents that are guilty of crimes must answer for them before rebuilding of trust can happen...

[Warpy]

42. Yeah, the Gestapo went after Commies, socialists and trade unionists

and when they ran out of those, they settled on Jews, no matter how remote the ancestry or how long they'd lived in the area.

If my dad's family had stayed in Alsace, I wouldn't be here. My grandfather got a few people out, but I think the ones left behind never left his mind.

So pardon me, DHS flunkies, if I see some really strong parallels between German police out of control in the 1930s and ICVE right now. Both countries had due process mechanisms in place. Bothe the Gestapo and ICE are ignoring them.

So, DHS spokesmodel, go to hell and take your bosses with you. We've seen this movie before and we already know how it turns out.

[Cirsium]

43. or else what?

Stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo, or else what? You will come after us? That is what it seems like to me what with all of the threats against critics coming from the people in the administration.

[Attilatheblond]

44. And instead of overseeing their work and controlling abuse, the boss lady of Homeland Security wants to be a TV star

with her own torturous Reality Game Show where she can wear costumes and play Roman Emperor to do thumbs up or down as to which combatants get to live a safer life in the US.

[appleannie1]

46. If you don't like the comparison, stop treating people the way the Nazi's treated the Jews. Simple.

[kimbutgar]

47. Watching a video yesterday of masked ICE members kicking in a garage door in San Diego reminded me of the

Gestapo. And those ICE agents are they pardoned January 6th terrorists? They don’t look official to me.

And I believe with what I see with my own eyes.

[Grokenstein]

48. F**k your feelings, gestapo snowflakes.

[maspaha]

49. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...it's a duck

…just sayin…

[ImNotGod]

50. They are all under a nazi regime so all nazi enforcement departs get the Gestapo label. nt

[OLDMDDEM]

51. If we shouldn't be calling ICE the Gestapo, then we ask that they stop acting like the Gestapo.

[The Roux Comes First]

52. It Seems Like Only Yesterday That They Could Not Acknowledge the Reality of the Holocaust!

All of a sudden they can spell "gestapo"!

[C_U_L8R]

53. Why'd they even mention this?

With this juvenile fear/propoganda tactic, it seems these Keystone Cops indeed want to be compared to the Gestapo.

[dlk]

54. If the shoe fits...

n/t

[bromeando]

55. ICE

If it walks like a duck....

[NBachers]

56. Coming soon: Kristinacht

[unblock]

57. "We're much more like the ss than the gestapo!" Said noem.

"I'll have some of that gazpacho!" Said mtg....

[ananda]

58. LOL. Would Nazi Stormtroopers work?

[ShazzieB]

59. Hey, ICE! If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo...

THEN DON'T ACT LIKE THE GESTAPO!

P.S. GO TO HELL!

[Alliepoo]

60. Truth hurts, huh?

Abolish ice.

[aggiesal]

61. Stop acting like a Gestapo & maybe we'll stop comparing ICE like a Gestapo ...

Right now, the word fits like a glove.

[Eugene]

62. Do police state actions, get compared to police state actors.

Homeland Security is trying to go full secret police. The courts are the only thing stopping them.

[The Wizard]

63. Hitler had a private army called the Brown Shirts.

ICE, formerly the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, constitute Trump's private army. When will our schools make "Mein Kampf" mandatory reading?

[madinmaryland]

64. Then I'll just refer to them as jack-booted thugs.

[bpj62]

65. ICE visit

My brother is a gm for a restaurant group in the DC area and last week during the lunch rush hour he received a visit from ICE wo demanded to speak to all the employees as well as requesting a records search. My brother asked them to produce a warrant for both the records search and the request to interview the employees. The agent said they didn't have one but that it wasn't necessary. My brother politely declined thier request and denied them access to the restaurant. The agents left and they haven't come back.
ICE is currently acting like theGestapo and they should continue to be called out for thier actions.

[LudwigPastorius]

67. Yeah, stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo.

There’s a huge difference!

The Gestapo didn’t cover their faces.

[area51]

68. Cope harder,

Dept of Fatherland Security.

[bluestarone]

69. Who is paying them? With what money? Way past time for these yahoo's to be

Brought in before a JUDGE!!

[CanonRay]

70. Act like the Gestapo, get named the Gestapo

[Johnny2X2X]

71. I hope people realize that ICE's powers are being expanded

Soon, they'll have the power to round up and send to a foreing prison, anyone the administration deems an enemy of the state. Citizen or immigrant status doesn't matter.

[Ferrets are Cool]

72. What did the Gestapo say??

Oh yeah, well FUCK YOU!!! GESTAPO!!!

[get the red out]

73. Waaaaa

Nazi wailing and gnashing of teeth over hurt fee-fees.

[Skittles]

74. they are more offended by being CALLED the gestapo

than they are by actually BEHAVING like the gestapo

[SheltieLover]

76. Their behavior is what is sickening!

[Buns_of_Fire]

78. The Trumpteenth Commandment: THOU SHALT NOT

refer to to Nazi Fucks by calling then "Nazi Fucks".

[Jack Valentino]

80. STOP COMPARING TRUMP with JESUS CHRIST-----

at least until he is likewise crucified! (literally, not figuratively)

[Iggo]

81. "If the shoe fits...EAT IT." -- Ben Grimm.

Also Ben Grimm: “It’s clobberin’ time!”

[FirefighterJo]

83. I would refer to her as frau Himmler

That was one dedicated dangerously mad bitch dedicated to the Führer (Which means guide btw.) ... But she is right, ICE & Co is still in the brown shirt phase me thinks. Once going full Gestapo (Geheimisse Stats Polizei) things will get way worse. "Gott mit uns" as was described on their belt buckles.

[MurrayDelph]

84. It's not a fair comparison

The German Gestapo were better dressers.

[pansypoo53219]

85. is east german stasi better?

[DBoon]

86. and we won't stop...

Will they kick in our front door in the middle of the night, take us to a hidden prison, and have us "disappear"?

[RainCaster]

87. GESTAPO!! That is who you are!

Get used to it, you earned that name.

[Aussie105]

88. A request to 'please not notice' that ICE is acting very Gestapo like is hereby denied.

Can't deny what is happening out in the open.

Repressing the media, controlling the legal system, putting insecurity in the hearts of people, telling people they aren't seeing what their lying eyes see . . . yeah, no, not new tactics.
History is full of methods by which dictatorships do what they do and get away with.

I guess Novichok and defenestration are up next in the dictator's playbook?

[Volaris]

89. Well Kristi, its the HIT dog, that yelps.

Maybe quit acting like the gestapo, and people will stop calling you out for it.
Otherwise, Mr. Wick will see you now

After watching her grandstanding ass in front of the senate last week, she's the FIRST ONE I want put under oath and cross examined. I normally don't speak this way, but fuck that self-important, hateful b***h.

[GoCubsGo]

90. Nope. I don't believe I will.

And, as long as she keeps playing the part, I'm not going to stop calling the person running the show "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS," either.

[maxrandb]

91. "Stormtroopers" is a better term

70% of Americans under 40 have no idea what the Gestapo was, but they know Stormtroopers.

[Bettie]

95. Perhaps they could stop

acting the like the gestapo?

No? Then, why should we not call them that again?

[Bettie]

96. Perhaps they could stop

acting the like the gestapo?

No? Then, why should we not call them that again?

[surfered]

97. "Stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo," says Heinrich Himmler.

[HarryM]

98. I dunno. I just think that they are more like the Mafia

Donny's Mafia. They use the same lawless tactics as the Mafia. To call them Gestapo is giving them more credit than they deserve. The Mafia have been known to take people in unmarked cars and cart them off to someplace to be killed. Perhaps this does not go that far, but it goes close to that. Gestapo were an official part of the government, there "legally." Donny's Mafia is not obeying the law, and doing it with gusto.

[wiggs]

99. Having just returned from a fascinating and wonderful Berlin visit, I can say we were often

making connections between German history and present US behavior in an alarming and urgent manner. Discussions with Berliners, gallery exhibits about general injustice, omni-present grafitti messages, brilliant museum experiences re 30s/40s Germany and older Europe, and tour info made it clear that humans have a long history of sad/brutal injustice....and Berliners are aware of it much more than we are.

We felt, more than ever, that comparisons with authoritarian playbooks including those of 1900s Germany -- while chilling and previously inconceivable -- shouldn't be avoided. the US needs to wake up.

[Brainfodder]

101. If the behavior matches...

STOP or be judged fairly?

[Siwsan]

102. That gets an unapologetic NO!!! from me

I call them as I see them.

[Javaman]

103. so the Gestapo is trying to rebrand. like twitter turning to "x".

yeah, no, gestapo is gestapo is gestapo.

[Clouds Passing]

104. Lice has earned that title 100%

[markbark]

105. Shocked, SHOCKED I tells ya!

Apparently Gruppenführer Noem takes exception to certain comparisons.
If it walks, swims and quacks like a duck, can we at least consider the possibility that we have a member of the family Anatidae on our hands?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

107. No

[LetMyPeopleVote]

108. The irony is amazing

[Initech]

109. ICE is a gestapo and Tom Homan is a terrorist!

And his minions are fucking Nazis! Get fucked, MAGA!