Under TACO Don’s idea of law and order, we are becoming a nation of barbarians, as personified by brutal tactics of ICE

October 7, 2025 by tomaswell

What have we become in this country?

That’s not a rhetorical question. It’s a serious inquiry about the conscience and soul of a country that would send masked agents to push a woman FACE-DOWN ON THE PAVEMENT or to abandon a 13-year-old boy on a street corner.

I mean, is it really necessary to DESTROY PROPERTY by throwing mattresses and busted doors into dumpsters, scattering clothing and food all over apartments, zip-tying children? Is absolutely necessary that these federal thugs wear masks when they assault citizens (and many of their victims are indeed citizens)?

Was it really necessary to employ Black Hawk helicopters? The Department of Homeland Security, the agency ostensibly run by Kristi Noem but in reality, she takes her orders from Stephen Miller, the Naziest of Trump’s Nazis. And those ICE agents? Not one scintilla better than Hitler’s Sturmabteilung.

DHS says they were targeting the Tren de Aragua gang. No actual evidence has ever been provided that would indicate the veracity of that assertion. In other words, they lied through their masks.

Donald Trump says he has declared war on cities governed by Democrats. He called Portland, Oregon, a “war zone” but nothing could be further from the truth. He’s lying through his gold makeup-stained teeth.

Here’s a few examples of Trump’s “law and order”:

Roderick Johnson, a 67-year-old U.S. citizen, said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties. Despite his assurances that he was a citizen, he was forced to wait for nearly three hours until they looked him up. His requests to see a search warrant or speak to a lawyer were ignored.
One woman who was detained had a pending asylum case, meaning she is legally present in the U.S. When she returned to her apartment, it was boarded up, and all her possessions were missing.
George Retes is a 25-year-old Army veteran. Still, he was detained as he was on his way to work as a security guard. He told the agents that he was an American citizen and that his wallet and identification were in his nearby car. Regardless, he was violently arrested and then held in a jail cell for three days and nights. While incarcerated, he was not allowed to make a phone call, see an attorney, appear before a judge, or take a shower to wash off pepper spray and tear gas that the agents had used. A damned fine way to treat a military veteran.
Leo Garcia Venegas is an American citizen. That mattered little to Trump’s stormtroopers. He was laying a foundation at a private construction site when agents vaulted a fence and tackled him. When he showed them his Alabama-issued ID, agents dismissed it as fake (wonder where they got that word?). Venegas was handcuffed for an hour and released only after his social security number was verified. But that’s not where his story ended. A month later, Venegas, a construction worker, was working in a home when agents cornered him in the back bedroom and ordered him to leave the house. He again showed his ID and agents again dismissed it as fake. He was marched to the edge of the subdivision development and held for 20 minutes before his release. His detentions were the result of DHS conducting warrantless searches.
Rafie Ollah Shouhed is a 79-year-old citizen who owns a car wash in the LA area. He was tackled and detained during an ICE raid. He was then detained for 12 hours and denied medical treatment for broken ribs, an injured elbow and post-concussive symptoms of a traumatic brain injury. He is filing suit. Agents claimed Shouhed was impeding a raid at his car was but he was never charged.

Those are only a few of the incidents in which overzealous ICE agents, with no training or qualifications, have attacked and brutalized American citizens. Those two words are worth repeating: American citizens.

ICE, as you may know, is actively recruiting more agents. There are no qualifications, no formal training, no P.O.S.T. (Police Officers Standards and Training) certification

These agents remind me of the types who would kick puppies (or in the case of Kristi Noem, shoot a puppy). They’re the types who would drown kittens just for sport. They’re the types we read about occasionally who get their jollies putting out cigarettes on the bare arms of children. In short, they are not the people one would desire for a next-door neighbor.

They would probably love to live vicariously through Donald Trump, Jr., who gets his thrills severing and displaying the tails of an elephant…