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ICE Has Only Seemed To Be Quieter
Washington Monthly ^ | July 19, 2026 | Anne Kim

Posted on 07/19/2026 7:04:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The agency’s subtler tactics in recent months aimed to lull citizens into complacency. Arrests, detentions, and deportations have all increased under new DHS Director Markwayne Mullin.

As a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin enjoyed a reputation for confrontation and theatricality. He often donned a cowboy hat on the Senate floor (a no-no for a body that prizes decorum) and strode the hallways of the Capitol bouncing a rubber stress ball. 

During a 2023 Senate hearing, the former mixed martial arts fighter challenged Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to a fistfight, taunting him to “stand your butt up.” In a separate incident last fall, Mullin “joked” about killing journalists. 

Mullin’s confirmation hearing to replace Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security this spring was likewise combative. Sen. Rand Paul—whom Mullin had called a “freaking snake”—challenged his temperament and lack of expertise. “Explain to the American people why they should trust a man with anger issues to set the proper example for ICE and border patrol agents,” Paul said

Since ascending to DHS, however, Mullin has submerged his ostentatious persona. Unlike Noem, whose shock-and-awe immigration enforcement tactics sparked widespread public outrage, Mullin has been relatively low-key. No dehumanizing videos, no embarrassing cosplay, no obvious corruption

He’s also built a brutally efficient deportation machine that—until last week—was largely escaping protest from an easily distractible public:


(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonmonthly.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: aliens; annekim; cherokee; deportations; dhs; dnctrollsonfr; ice; illegals; immigration; lefiistsource; markwaynemullin; mullin; oklahoma; tds; tdstrolls; washingtonmonthly
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ICE Has Only Seemed To Be Quieter

They say that like it's a bad thing.

1 posted on 07/19/2026 7:04:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“”””Arrests have surged to 2,000 per day, according to the New York Times, and more than 63,000 people were in ICE custody at the start of July, often in horrific conditions.””””

This is terrible. We need to speed up the deportations so the criminals can get home to better conditions pronto.


2 posted on 07/19/2026 7:21:02 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I enjoyed all the MAGA/ ICE theater, but I’m glad they have made an effort to tone the confrontation down on the media.
It’s smarter. Just so long as their work continues, as unabated as possible.


3 posted on 07/19/2026 7:23:36 PM PDT by lee martell
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Democrat Insurrectionists can’t grasp this SIMPLE concept

All because the Lying Liberal Mainstream Media
and Democrat Politicians told them
to throw their lives away 🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️

SMH 😒🙄🤥




EVERY TIME a Democrat Politician speaks,
they prove this is TRUE and ACCURATE



4 posted on 07/19/2026 7:31:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A government entity should not have the option of getting it wrong. Deport ONE person in even the most justifiable error and heads should roll, and in the most public manner, lest we hand the enemy unnecessary advantage.

This job is too important to give the lefties even the slightest public relations advantage.

Make haste quietly, but any mistake is going to be trumpeted loudly and to great emotional effect in the press.

Best to target the genuine gang-bange4rs first, and send them on flights to an undisclosed South American country that tragically land empty.


5 posted on 07/19/2026 7:33:36 PM PDT by Never trust a politician (It's the economy; all other issues together do not matter as much.)
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ICE arrests have surged in July, reaching a high under Trump
Washington Post ^ | 07/17/2026

Posted on 7/17/2026, 2:07:45 PM by Responsibility2nd

ICE has arrested on average more than 1,400 people every day in July, the highest point during this administration

 

more.....

6 posted on 07/19/2026 7:37:24 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (It's not what the media reports; it's what they don't report that's important)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mass deportation and affordability. Those are the two quality of life issues Trump needs to focus on. Stop with this Iran folly and get back to MAGA.


7 posted on 07/19/2026 7:44:22 PM PDT by nonliberal (Pinochet did nothing wrong.)
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To: lee martell

That’s 100% correct, IMO, the big ICE show of force in places like Minneapolis allowed the leftwing radicals to gather in force and make a spectacle of everything.

The best way is what is happening now, low key, spread out around the country, they’re so many illegals walking freely out in public, it’s not hard to find them.

Keep moving around, don’t allow the anti-ICE folks to gather in one spot to make a spectacle of everything.


8 posted on 07/19/2026 7:53:30 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ve seen reports of ICE being busy the past few days in Doraville, Georgia. There are also reports of a lot of detentions in Passaic, NJ.

https://x.com/ATLUncensored/status/2078491966149447872

https://x.com/KimKatieUSA/status/2078850505938518436


9 posted on 07/19/2026 8:17:57 PM PDT by CFW
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
more than 63,000 people were in ICE custody at the start of July, often in horrific conditions.

I taught GED in Spanish for a while. All of the adult students were either US citizens, or permanent legal residents.

One day, we were talking about keeping your record clean to obtain employment. I will never forget what one of them stated: "Ah C'mon teacher, the jails in America are like the hotels where I came from."

10 posted on 07/19/2026 8:49:18 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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Ask long as there is a steady flow of people who should not be here going out and very few of those people coming in they may do it quietly or with fanfares of trumpets with fireworks.

It is all good.

11 posted on 07/19/2026 8:56:19 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Markwayne is also an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation (unlike Pocohantas, the fake Indian) and a registered badass.


12 posted on 07/19/2026 9:13:49 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"The agency’s subtler tactics in recent months aimed to lull citizens into complacency..."

Why would citizens be concerned? I am happily complacent while ICE works in the background to take out the trash.

13 posted on 07/19/2026 10:09:18 PM PDT by thescourged1 (Rush, is it time to panic yet? )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stepped up deportations. Illegal aliens kept in tough conditions so that many will voluntarily leave?

That sounds wonderful!


14 posted on 07/19/2026 10:14:57 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: CFW

In addition to Doraville I am seeing reports in my Facebook page that ICE is all over the Atlanta area makin arrests.
Canton, Marietta, Alpharetta, Smyrna, Duluth to name a few. It’s a beautiful thing.


15 posted on 07/19/2026 11:37:38 PM PDT by gawatchman (agents )
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To: Never trust a politician; All

Anyone here illegally is a criminal.
“Worst or the worst” are the ones who want to stay and continue to get helps while still criminal trespassers! Let alone any other unknown other crimes committed while illegally here.

They show no remorse, no repentance. That sort of mindset is NOT something we should entertain letting remain here, it is evil based.


16 posted on 07/20/2026 12:52:53 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Be vewy vewy quiet, we’re hunting iwwegals!

CC


17 posted on 07/20/2026 12:59:25 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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"ICE has especially targeted unaccompanied minors"

Rescuing over 140,000 of Biden's child-trafficking victims.

18 posted on 07/20/2026 2:01:24 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

With the backdoor amnesty in the agriculture bill and I’m sure they’ve got the back door amnesty for the remainder already in the works for the rest of em. Our country no longer serves Americans!


19 posted on 07/20/2026 3:09:37 AM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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With the backdoor amnesty in the agriculture bill and I’m sure they’ve got the back door amnesty for the remainder already in the works for the rest of em. Our country no longer serves Americans!


20 posted on 07/20/2026 3:09:38 AM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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