U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Rogan disagreed that ICE is a terrorist organization, describing it as poorly trained and given a terrible job.

“I don't think ICE is a terrorist organization. I think they have a terrible job”

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Rogan says that while he opposes illegal immigration, ICE's masked, militarized raids set a dangerous precedent a future government could misuse.

“However, we're setting a very alarming precedent where you have masked criminals. militarized police with no ID that are running around the cities snatching people up”

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Rogan argued that many migrants now being pursued by ICE were encouraged to come to the United States under previous policies.

“many of these people were encouraged to come here. That's what's so fucked”

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Rogan warned that a briefly trained, unidentified militarized ICE force sets a precedent that a future ruler could misuse, such as for gun confiscation.

“That militarized police force could be going door to door and confiscating guns”

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Favreau says that as a Democratic president he would fire most ICE staff while still keeping immigration enforcement.

“i would fire most of the people in ice because i think they've hired a bunch of unqualified psychopaths”

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Favreau argues that public support for deportations rebounds when abuses leave the news, so Democrats and protesters must keep attention on them.

“You just got to keep reminding people and my people, you know, coming out and in Maine and Texas to protest. This is important to keep it in the news”

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Favreau says Republicans could reopen the rest of DHS and fund ICE separately through reconciliation without Democratic votes.

“So just fucking open the rest of DHS like everyone else voted to do in the Senate, Republicans and Democrats, and then”

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Shapiro argues the Constitution guarantees due process to all persons, not only citizens, and the Trump administration is violating that.

“Any person deserves the right to due process, not any citizen. And the Trump administration is not doing that”

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Shapiro argues that ICE's rapid hiring of untrained, unskilled recruits is dangerous and led to incidents like the Minneapolis shooting.

“They're hiring people left and right with no education, with no skills. This is very, very dangerous”

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Shapiro asserts that Trump has moved from being a would-be dictator to an actual dictator.

“I've always said he's a wannabe dictator. Now he's just a dictator”

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Frisella argues Trump mishandled deportations by waiting a year instead of acting when public support was around 70 percent.

“The problem is he waited a year before anything actually happened”

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Frisella distinguishes hardworking immigrant laborers, whom he says are important to the economy, from those he believes contribute nothing.

“there are good people that come here that try to contribute and do things. And obviously those people there are working”

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Frisella says one can hold both that illegal immigrants should be removed and that calling ICE after workers complete a job is immoral.

“You can agree that those people shouldn't be here. And you can also agree that arresting people after they've done a job for you And getting them fucking deported is fucked up”

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El-Sayed contends ICE has become a tool for normalizing paramilitary force rather than enforcing immigration law.

“ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force in contraposition to the constitutional order itself”

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El-Sayed argues ICE cannot be reformed because a culture of impunity, once established, is nearly impossible to remove.

“anybody who's ever run a government agency will tell you that once you have a culture of impunity set in, it's almost impossible to take that out”

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Wagner argued detention conditions are deliberately made so harsh that detainees abandon their legal cases.

“one of the things they're doing is making life so abominable that people just decide I'm going to give up on my case”

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Wagner cited reporting estimating that about 200,000 deported parents have been separated from their children.

“By her estimate, I think 200,000 parents have been deported and separated from their children”

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Hinojosa argues the high cost of living is the main driver of Latino voters' shift away from Trump, alongside anger at ICE raids.

“Latinos are voting their pocketbook as much, if not more than anyone else, right? It's probably the swingiest of demographics politically”

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Pulido calls De La Cruz's advocacy for detained constituents hypocritical given her votes to expand detention.

“But she absolutely wants to have it both ways. And you can't”

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Carolla argues that Democratic rhetoric urging confrontation leads to shootings of protesters and the president.

“So Democrats, you're getting the president shot at and you're also getting your own fans shot at as well”

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Cooper said ICE officers should meet the same requirements as other law enforcement officers.

“Officers who work with ICE should have the same requirements that state, local, and federal law enforcement officers should have”

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Mason claims over 200 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE under Trump's second term.

“we've seen over 200 American citizens get detained by ICE”

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Eszterhas said masked ICE agents trouble him as resembling the Gestapo.

“Yeah, I'm bothered by the mask too. It's too Gestapo-like to me”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2508 - Joe Eszterhas (Jun 3, 2026) · Listen from 1:26:55