So here we go again. Another Democrat decides to score points by demonizing the men and women tasked with enforcing the law. This time, it’s Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, who decided to hop on The Breakfast Club and compare Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to “slave patrols.”
Yes, you read that right. In 2025, an elected member of Congress casually equated federal officers taking child predators and drug traffickers off the streets with antebellum thugs hunting runaway slaves.
If it sounds like the kind of rhetoric that gets people hurt, that’s because it is.
🚨 WTF?! REP. JASMINE CROCKETT: “When I see ICE, I see slave patrols.”
“If you know the history of policing, you understand they were born out of slave patrols.”
Jasmine Crockett is ENCOURAGING violence against ICE. She must be expelled from Congress. pic.twitter.com/533hjK5PZk
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 14, 2025
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin wasn’t having it. Appearing on Fox’s America Reports, she blasted Crockett’s comments and made it clear what’s at stake. ICE, she said, isn’t out there rounding up families for fun. It’s targeting criminals — and the numbers back her up. According to DHS, 70 percent of illegal immigrants arrested under this administration had either prior criminal convictions or pending charges. That’s not myth, that’s data.
🎆After Jasmine Crockett compared @ICEgov to slave patrols, @TriciaOhio let @SandraSmithFox and @johnrobertsFox know how she felt about Crockett’s comments. @DailyCaller 🎆 pic.twitter.com/N6ZrZOfAVY
— Harold Hutchison (@HaroldHutchison) September 15, 2025
Just this past weekend, ICE took multiple child predators and rapists off the streets. Think about that. These are the “worst of the worst,” McLaughlin said, and yet instead of a thank you, ICE officers get compared to Nazis, Gestapo, and now slave patrols.
Sadly, there are too many of these stories, and this is who the left is defending:
ALERT: 🚨 Illegal arrested for aggravated s-xual ass-ult on a victim under 13.
Byron Ortiz Paez of Salem County, NJ now being held on an immigration detainer. pic.twitter.com/ru2zQXkNuK
— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) May 3, 2025
OMG
Illegal alien convicted child s*x offender gang member found living INSIDE A DAYCARE in San Diego.
This is Newscum’s Sanctuary City policies in action pic.twitter.com/Vc8ryT13FD
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 26, 2025
WOW. ICE has arrested 1,361 criminal illegal aliens in the Houston area ALONE during the month of June.
Arrests included 32 child predators, 9 murderers, 16 gang/cartel members, and one illegal convicted for hijacking a plane.
This is what I voted for! pic.twitter.com/tgejm7qrkz
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2025
You’d think governors like J.B. Pritzker in Illinois or mayors like Brandon Johnson in Chicago — cities drowning in crime and chaos — would be begging for more ICE support. Instead, they’re part of the chorus painting ICE as villains. The same ICE whose agents are literally catching people who prey on children.
And here’s the kicker: this rhetoric doesn’t just stay in the studio. It bleeds out into the streets. In July, ICE agents raiding illegal marijuana farms in California were shot at. Not screamed at, not blocked by protesters, but shot at. You don’t get that kind of escalation in a vacuum. You get it when elected officials treat law enforcement like an enemy occupation.
McLaughlin spelled it out: when Crockett compares ICE to slave patrols, she’s not just making a bad analogy. She’s dehumanizing the officers. She’s sending a green light to the fringe activists who already think violence is justified. It’s the political permission slip radicals crave. And every time an agent gets targeted, every time their families get threatened, it traces back to that steady drumbeat of vilification.
Meanwhile, President Trump is making it clear he isn’t shying away from enforcement. His August post on Truth Social hinted at stepped-up operations in cities like Chicago. By September, he doubled down with a meme from Apocalypse Now, referencing the famous “smell of napalm in the morning” line. The message? The gloves are coming off.
The contrast couldn’t be sharper. On one side, ICE agents risking their lives arresting predators, drug dealers, and fugitives. On the other, politicians like Jasmine Crockett casually throwing around slavery comparisons, as if that doesn’t fuel real-world violence.
McLaughlin called it “wrong, disgusting, and it has to stop now.” She’s right. Because if the trend continues, it’s not a question of if more ICE officers get attacked. It’s a question of when. And the next time it happens, those who’ve spent years painting ICE as villains won’t get to wash their hands of it. Their words will be right there at the crime scene.
