ICE says its job is to stop illegal 'ideas' crossing the border in since-deleted X post

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

04/10/2025 04:29 PM EDT


Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s job is to stop illegal ideas from crossing the U.S. border, according to a now-deleted social media post from the agency that drew condemnation on Thursday.

In a promotional graphic on X, ICE said they enforce over 400 federal laws to “ensure public safety and national security,” with the picture showing ICE will stop the crossings of people, money, products — and ideas. The post directs people to visit the ICE website.

The post by ICE comes a day after the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the agency, announced it would be surveilling the social media of foreign students and immigrants applying for permanent status or other immigration benefits to the United States for alleged antisemitic activity, in a push to “protect the homeland from extremists” and “terrorist sympathizers.”

ICE told POLITICO that the post was put up in error, and that it is drafting a new post that will include “intellectual property” — not ideas.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/ice-speech-censorship-007886

[William Seger]

1. "the post was put up in error"

ICE has been making a LOT of errors since the reactionary bigots took over, and taking down that post doesn't mean a policy change.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Nothing they have done was "in error"

It was intentional (as a trial balloon and mode of code messaging), with the caveat of - "It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission".

[tornado34jh]

2. Yeah, sure that's what you intended to post, ICE

You're as believable as the bastard despot you serve under. Don't act like you aren't doing illegal things under him.

[Justice matters.]

8. "just 'following' orders"

Just like the fascist bootlickers on trials at Nuremberg...

[tornado34jh]

9. Following orders isn't a valid excuse, regardless of who it is

I don't care if it was Pinochet, Hitler, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, or Milosevic. Also, the US would be wise to not go after the ICC because to be honest, they are guilty of many things, including supporting brutal governments and massacres. If the ICC wanted to, they could decide to go after them, because the US in many ways have gotten away with things that other countries probably would not.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. "put up in error"? It is a professional graphic, meaning several layers of approval. Not some underling. . . . nt

[NH Ethylene]

5. And now we have the 'thought police'.

It's horrifying how much of George Orwell's 1984 is becoming our reality.

[travelingthrulife]

6. Did some of them refuse to buy the guns we smuggle in or something?

[republianmushroom]

7. The brown shirts true goal.

[patphil]

10. How do you stop an idea from crossing a border?

Ideas crisscross the globe thousands of times each day. They're unstoppable.
Even the most radical ideas are unstoppable.
As far as protecting the homeland from extremists is concerned, that would require jailing millions of far-right radical religious and political extremists that already live here as citizens.

As far as intellectual property is concerned, that's also unstoppable.
What I'm wondering is how would these guys know what they're looking at when it comes to intellectual property, given their lack of intellect.

[Imalittleteapot]

11. They must post the illegal ideas

Otherwise, how will we know what to think?

[Wonder Why]

12. And, of course, it was on the Nazi's web site. Very appropriate. Great idea. NOT!