ICE Director Upset About Being Called ‘Fascist’ Gets Revolutionary Advice: Stop Being Fascist | EUROtoday

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons complained in his opening assertion earlier than the House Committee on Homeland Security Tuesday morning about individuals referring to ICE brokers as “the Gestapo” and “the secret police,” saying the rhetoric unfairly encourages threats towards these brokers.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) supplied Lyons some revolutionary recommendation.

“People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist,” he stated.

“I have a simple suggestion,” he continued: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime or a secret police, then stop acting like one.”

Goldman identified in earlier dialogue with Lyons that ICE is frequently stopping “nonwhite people and those who look like immigrants to ask for their papers” — a trademark of fascist regimes within the twentieth century.

Lyons conceded that secret police in each Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union did the identical factor, however argued unconvincingly that “to say the men and women of ICE are Gestapos … [is] wrong.”

Earlier within the listening to, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) confronted Lyons about how he wished final yr for a deportation machine that “was like Amazon Prime but with human beings.”

“Mr. Lyons, how many times has Amazon Prime shot a mom three times in the face?” he requested, referring to ICE’s deadly taking pictures of Renee Good in Minneapolis final month.

“None, sir.” Lyons conceded, including that he meant ICE “needs to be more efficient” and that ”ICE offers with human beings so we will’t be like them.”

“Speaking of humans,” Swalwell interjected, highlighting the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol brokers, additionally in Minneapolis: “How many times has Amazon Prime shot a nurse 10 times in the back?”