ICE Enforcement and the Violence Debate Surrounding Immigration Agents

Showing 73 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement became a flashpoint in Charlie Kirk's orbit primarily through Border Czar Tom Homan, who used a conversation with Andrew Kolvet honoring Kirk's memory to draw attention to what he described as an over one-thousand-percent increase in attacks against ICE agents, citing Rutgers University polling showing more than half of left-leaning respondents believed political violence could be justified. Independent journalist Nick Shirley documented that tension directly, spending over one hundred days covering protests outside Portland's ICE facility and describing an environment where demonstrators operated without apparent consequence while local police remained largely absent and Oregon's governor downplayed the danger to journalists and residents. Kirk approached the underlying immigration enforcement debate through ACLU director Anthony Romero's public call for cities to sever cooperation with federal authorities, which Kirk characterized as a modern secession attempt comparable in scale to the Civil War-era schism, proposing that federal funding be cut from sanctuary cities that refused to comply. Senior Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski joined that same conversation to outline the incoming administration's mass deportation plans, while President Trump later used a one-year anniversary interview to defend ICE operations against organized crime groups including MS-13 and Tren de Aragua as central to his broader border security agenda.