'Outright fascist': Dem forces ICE director to admit his agents are like Nazis

[LetMyPeopleVote]

If you do not want to be called a fascist or NAZI, then do not act like a fascist and NAZI

'Outright fascist': Dem forces ICE director to admit his agents are like Nazis

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— br00t4c (@br00t4c.bsky.social) 2026-02-10T20:00:04.928Z

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Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) forced Todd Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to admit that his agency uses the same tactics as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

During a Tuesday House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Goldman pointed out that ICE agents were "asking people walking on the streets of America to show proof of citizenship."

"Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?" the lawmaker wondered.

"Sir, there were various nefarious regimes that did that," Lyons said.

"Is Nazi Germany one?" Goldman asked.

"Yes," Lyons stated.

"Is the Soviet Union one?" Goldman pressed.

"Yes, sir, but I totally — This is the wrong type of question!" Lyons exclaimed.

"You said in your opening statement that references to ICE as the Gestapo or the secret police encourage threats against ICE agents," the New York Democrat noted. "The problem is you have it backwards, sir. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist."

"If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one," he added. "But people are simply just observing what they are seeing. And that's why people are making those comments."

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[EarthFirst]

2. If it walks like a jack-booted thug... nt

[niyad]

3. As Agent J, said, "Don't start none, won't be none."

[twodogsbarking]

4. Paid Assassins is also a good label.

[BurnDoubt]

5. After seventy-five years...

you know, when America was Great, I’ve seen a lot of things.
But I NEVER saw what we’re seeing in our cities and towns, as armed mobs are out kidnapping people and stomping on their Civil Rights, pretending to be legitimate.
What we’re seeing now is not the road to our Greatness, but another detour around our Constitutional Freedoms on our way to an Authoritarian Nightmare..
Our “Greatness” is largely based on being “Fortunate” in SO MANY ways, and, like so many of the fortunate, we forget ourselves and believe instead that we are the authors of our Fortune, forgetting that the manual labor that built most of what we see was done by the most marginalized of our population, immigrants and slaves. So, now, the task is to rub out the truth and claim it to be the legacy of a White Christian Man-o-sphere bedazzling the World with its Brilliance.
The “Greatification” is a Hoax.
Fascism Is Real.

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. Well stated

[PatSeg]

6. Well done Congressman

Asking all the right questions.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist."

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[kwolf68]

8. Goldman rocks

This is calling the bullshit. Would love to see him replace either of the New York Senators.