From Daily Mail: The White House has fired back at Joe Rogan after the podcaster said he understood why protesters were likening Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) behavior in Minneapolis to Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo.
Rogan was discussing the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, 37, by an ICE agent when he said he understood the ‘point of view’ of anti–ICE protesters.
‘You don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching up people,’ Rogan said. ‘Many of which turn out to be US citizens that just don’t have their papers on them.
He added, rhetorically: ‘Are we really gonna be the Gestapo? “Where’s your papers?” Is that what we’ve come to?’
The Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany that independently investigated treason, espionage, and dissent. They also had broad powers, including the ability to arrest people without judicial review.
“People are looking at them like murderous military people that are on the streets of our city,” he said.
Rogan also criticized agents being “masked up.”
“Because if you get arrested by a cop, you’re allowed to ask the cop what is your name and badge number,” Rogan said. “And you could film that cop. If you get arrested by an ICE agent, you have no such right. They’re wearing a mask. They don’t have to tell you s***.”
On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin replied to the accusation, saying she had “very straightforward” solutions.
“If Tim Walz and Mayor [Jacob] Frey would let us in their jails, we wouldn’t have to be there at all,” she told Fox News.
McLaughlin said the administration seeks “680 criminal illegal aliens” who are murderers, rapists, and child pedophiles.
“People who, whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, you would never want these people to be on your streets or your neighbors,” she said.
She said immigration officers had to be on the ground in Minneapolis because the agency doesn’t “have state and local law enforcement’s help.”
She also mentioned how the operation is uncovering fraud.
“If the state and local government would help there, if they would coordinate with the FBI, if they would coordinate with Homeland Security investigations, we would – on an expedited basis – be finding that fraud.
“I think that all Americans would be better off for it. We want to give accountability. We want to give answers.”
Read more at Daily Mail
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