Magdaleno Leno Rose-Ávila

Posted January 29, 2026

 

Two dead in Minnesota, others beaten or die while imprisoned by Homeland security around the country. They arrest children, citizens, people who are in the correct Immigration administrative process, students at school and terrorizing our streets.

 

This White House administration has sent out a huge army of untrained undisciplined uniformed agents to terrify this good nation of ours.

 

And Republicans with the help of a few Democrats have helped to fund this establishment of this private army that is attacking so called Blue States and ignoring the red states which have greater crime issues than the blue states.

 

In all these abuses of power, we have yet to see one agent sanctioned or disciplined.

 

The members of Congress and Senators, as does the president and vice president, take an oath that demands they protect our country from enemies of abroad and within.

 

Thus, those constitutional right-wing Republicans should be demanding that we stop this rogue immigration army.

 

If we were to look at any other country in the world going through this armed violence, we would recognize this upheaval and unrest as signs of a Civil War.

 

On the videos, we see as many as 50 or more agents marching down the streets of our city. We see what it takes for these masked individuals with long rifles to arrest one suspected person.

 

It often takes 5-10 of these men and women to arrest some humble worker. In the process they ram cars, break the windows and abuse peaceful marchers and resisters. The laws and constitution of this land of ours is thrown under the bus. And in all these abuses of power, we have yet to see one agent sanctioned or disciplined.

 

On videos we have seen pastors, school principals, business owners push these terrorists back. Some women have openly slapped these men and one gang brother knocked an ICE agent down to the ground saying that in his hood this was not going to take place.

 

And, of course there are the millions who have poured on to the streets in bitter cold to demand that ICE leave and be defunded.

 

These agents are lied to and told they have full immunity to be abusive and to use deadly force.

 

Lots of organizations and communities are collecting the data on this abuse of power, and many agents will be taken to court and many will be found guilty and also sued for civil compensation. Trump will not be able to pardon them if they are charged locally. Nor will he provide funds and coordinate a legal defense team to protect them.

 

They will be abandoned by Trump and left to try to survive financially while having their names and pictures all over the media and will be hated for what they have done

 

We were told that they were only arresting and deporting criminals, drug dealers, murder and rapist … in fact over 75% of all those picked up have no criminal records. The government will not allow our congress to look at the files and search for the so-called crimes that those arrested supposedly committed.

 

It seems now due to public outrage from sports figures, people of faith, students, unions and many others that Trump is making some staff changes within his deportation program. Let us not be fooled. Those so called new leaders will still be administering the same program with the same violence and abuse of people. Thus, many are calling for ICE to be defunded. They are not making our streets safe…they are creating violence and spreading fear to everyone and in particular to the children.

 

Remember this program was built on a foundation of lies coming out of the White House. Throughout all these past 12 months we continue to see lies on top of lies. The most recent lies around the killings of two peaceful individuals has been cruel and filled with the most insane statements by Maga representatives and by those administering this bloody racist program.

 

In the meantime, we must continue to resist, and demand that a special master take over DHS and if not, defund this part of the budget that allows them to carry out these first steps of a CIVIL WAR.

 

¡YA BASTA! ENOUGH, SO STOP!

 

Magdaleno “Leno” Rose-Ávila is a human rights activist and writer.