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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Scott says nothing when illegals kill Americans, which happens 100x more than ICE hurting an illegal. He also won’t host them in one of his many luxury homes. Hope Zohran keeps taxing him and seizing his assets so he can get what he voted for.

Eric Goldman's avatar

Wow, Yuri, I think your thinking about Russia maybe? You should support this kind of statement with some facts, as this: " when illegals kill Americans, which happens 100x more than ICE hurting an illegal" would imply that the "illegals" have now killed thousands of people. Show us, please.

Gregg Lewis's avatar

Your comment is grade school fodder. A piss poor attempt at being emotionally manipulative, while factually bankrupt, and intellectually insipid. You're not critiquing his views— you're inventing a cartoon version of him so you can feel righteous about attacking him. Use a mirror if you like cartoons.

Eric Goldman's avatar

If you’re talking about Trump, Gregg, he is the best cartoon on the planet. Don’t have to do anything to exaggerate, he is capable of making himself more stupid and gotesque every day without any help.

Bossa Nogi's avatar

He should be forced to live in NYCHA projects sharing a toilet with THE PEOPLE

George Cree's avatar

Middle school level reply Yuri.

Robin Francik's avatar

Sounds like you've bought into the lies. Most rapists are white men with anger issues. Do your damn research.

Lisa Sands's avatar

So sorry for you Yuri. The delusion has gotten to you, so much that you lash out this way.

Xion's avatar

"For example, your leftists in United States. All these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders, they are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize the nation. When the job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist–Leninists come to power, obviously they get offended. They think that they will come to power. That will never happen. Of course, they will be lined up against the wall and shot.

But they may turn into the most bitter enemies of Marxist–Leninists when they come to power. And that’s what happened in Nicaragua. You remember most of these former Marxist–Leninists were either put to prison or one of them split and now he is working against the Sandinistas. It happened then in the Granada when Maurice Bishop was — he was already a Marxist — he was executed by a new Marxist who was more Marxist than this Marxist. Same happened in Afghanistan when first there was Taraki, he was killed by Amin; then Amin was killed by Babrak Kamahl with the help of KGB. Same happening in Bangladesh when Mujibur Rahman, very pro-Soviet leftist, was assassinated by his own Marxist–Leninist military 17comrades. It’s the same pattern everywhere. The moment they serve their purpose, all the useful idiots are either executed entirely — all the idealistically-minded Marxists — or were exiled or put in prisons like in Cuba. Many, many former Marxists are in Cuba, I mean in prison"

Chris Hensel's avatar

So true Yuri!!!! I wonder how he would feel if one of his loved ones was raped and/or killed by an illegal who has been released multiple times in a sanctuary city.

Lastly, I will say the only reason we’re here is because the Biden/Obama administration allowed 10 million plus illegals to flow into this country! That, is why we are where we are today with ICE!

queenbee 1's avatar

And so incarceration, brutality, murder, squalid conditions and rape in detention centers is justified because we let them in? You are creating a hypothetical and beating the immigrants with it. White men are the most dangerous people on this planet.

Patty's avatar

We won’t mention the bills put forth by the democrats that republicans wouldn’t vote for because they didn’t want it to be a win for democrats!

Eric Goldman's avatar

Like I said in my comment, Hensel, are you going to step forward and do the work they used to do?

Patty's avatar

More likely to be a partner if you live in the good old USA!

Kent's avatar

Scott. It's sad to see what TDS has done to your brain and Sam Harris. Sam won't debate the beautiful intellect of British Scientist Rupert Sheldrake because Sam is a reductionist/materialist, nor will he debate Victor Davis Hanson. Will you "debate" or have a discussion with Victor Davis Hanson? Maybe you have and I don't know it.

Eric Goldman's avatar

Scott, everything in this piece is right, and the labor question deserves its own spotlight: the jobs these people held were overwhelmingly the ones most Americans have consistently refused to do. Backbreaking hours, fixed wages, few or no benefits, no glamour, no upward path. Nobody was lining up to take those roles before the raids started, and nobody's lining up now that they're empty. So the actual question nobody in this administration seems willing to answer is: who does the work?

Elon's humanoid robots? The same man whose "full self-driving" has been perpetually eighteen months away for a decade, promising a robot workforce for jobs that require judgment, dexterity, and endurance in a hundred-degree field, on a timeline about as credible as Trump's own repeatedly declared, never-actually-finished wars. That's not a labor policy. That's a hallucination with a product roadmap attached, and in the meantime crops rot, kitchens go short-staffed, and construction slows, while the actual humans who used to do that work are in a detention facility named after an alligator instead of on a job site. Nobody's coming to fill the gap. That was never the plan. The cruelty was the plan, and the labor shortage is just the receipt.

Rita's avatar

Thank you so much Scott for this post. It is a very upsetting issue that is not addressed enough by mainstream media. Let us not overlook that Trump employees MANY illegals in his many establishments as well as his homes. He is such a hypocrite.

Ted Burkow's avatar

PROFESSOR G’S “ICE AGE” IS AN EXERCISE IN RHETORIC, NOT BALANCED ANALYSIS

Scott Galloway’s “ICE Age” portrays Immigration and Customs Enforcement as Donald Trump’s personal “secret police,” compares its agents to the Gestapo and describes immigration detention centers as “concentration camps.” These accusations may generate outrage, but they obscure the essential question: Is the federal government permitted—and obligated—to enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress?

The answer is yes.

The Constitution does not specifically mention ICE, an agency created in 2003. It does, however, grant the federal government authority over naturalization, foreign affairs and the enforcement of federal law. Congress exercised that authority by enacting immigration statutes, including laws governing admission, asylum, detention and removal. ICE is therefore not inventing its own mission or punishing people for their “identity.” It is carrying out federal laws that existed before Trump and that every president swears to faithfully execute.

Galloway calls immigration a “manufactured threat,” but uncontrolled migration is an international problem. Europe has experienced the same asylum backlogs, irregular crossings, housing pressures, integration difficulties and public backlash. European governments—including moderate and liberal governments—have strengthened borders and increased removals. Are all of them operating “secret police,” or have they recognized that a country ceases to have a meaningful immigration system when entry restrictions and removal orders are never enforced?

The United States faced an extraordinary enforcement challenge following the Biden years. Whatever one calls Biden’s policy—“open border,” humanitarian accommodation or enforcement failure—the practical result was historically unprecedented numbers of encounters at the southern border, alongside releases into the country and an overwhelmed asylum system. Trump and ICE did not create that accumulated caseload. They inherited it.

That flow carried economic and social consequences. State and local governments spent billions on emergency shelter, healthcare, education, policing and other services. American communities were expected to absorb costs created by a federal policy they did not control. Immigration can unquestionably benefit the economy, but acknowledging those benefits does not require pretending that migration has no capacity limits or public costs.

Nor should the criminal acts committed by particular removable noncitizens be dismissed. Immigrants as a broad population should not be characterized as inherently violent; research frequently finds that immigrants have lower overall crime rates than native-born Americans. Nevertheless, citizens have been assaulted, raped or killed by individual offenders who entered unlawfully, reentered after removal or remained despite criminal records and removal orders. Those crimes matter. A government’s first responsibility is to protect its citizens, and preventable victims cannot be erased because they complicate a preferred political narrative.

Galloway also misuses the statistic that most ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. “No criminal conviction” does not mean “legally present.” Unlawful presence is ordinarily a civil immigration violation. A person may therefore be removable without having a conventional criminal record. The statistic demonstrates that ICE is enforcing civil immigration law beyond violent offenders; it does not prove that the arrests are illegitimate.

When ICE looks for a particular fugitive or person with a removal order, agents will inevitably encounter others. Some will be lawfully present; others may also be removable. Brief identification mistakes can occur in any major enforcement operation. The proper questions are whether agents had an objective basis for the stop, verified lawful status promptly and released the person once that status was established. Accidental encounters are an operational reality. Racial profiling and prolonged wrongful detention remain unacceptable. Both statements can be true.

Galloway’s “concentration camp” language is especially dishonest. America’s immigration-detention network was not created by Trump. It operated under George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Trump’s first administration and Joe Biden—and existed under the former Immigration and Naturalization Service before ICE was created. Obama expanded family detention during the 2014 border surge; Biden continued detention facilities, county-jail agreements and private contracts. Trump has significantly expanded detention capacity, but expansion of a longstanding civil-detention system is not equivalent to creating Nazi concentration camps.

Conditions inside any facility should be inspected rigorously. Detainees are entitled to sanitation, medical care, adequate food, access to counsel and protection against abuse. But a poorly managed detention facility should be corrected—not dishonestly compared to a system constructed for slave labor, political terror and extermination.

Galloway similarly presents masks, protective equipment and multiple-agent operations as evidence of fascism while overlooking why these precautions are sometimes necessary. ICE agents have confronted vehicle attacks, doxxing, threats, thrown objects, physical assaults and organized attempts to obstruct arrests. Protesters have every right to criticize ICE, demonstrate, record agents from a lawful location and challenge government actions in court. They do not have the right to conceal fugitives, trap government vehicles, damage property, assault officers or physically prevent lawful arrests.

When large crowds surround agents and interfere with an operation, additional personnel, helmets, shields and body armor become predictable. Protective equipment does not transform an officer into a “storm trooper.” In many situations, it reduces the likelihood that an officer will resort to deadly force.

Every use of force must still be lawful, necessary and proportionate. Force appropriate against someone attempting to ram an officer is not appropriate against a peaceful observer holding a telephone. Agents should wear body cameras and display clearly visible agency and identification numbers, even when their names and faces are protected against doxxing.

ICE is not above the law—but neither are the people ICE is assigned to arrest, nor protesters who physically obstruct federal officers.

The legitimate debate is over priorities, methods, due process and proportionality. Should ICE prioritize violent criminals? Absolutely. Should detention conditions be monitored? Of course. Should agents who violate constitutional rights be held accountable? Without question.

But none of that makes immigration enforcement illegitimate. Calling ICE the Gestapo does not constitute analysis. It trivializes the actual Gestapo, demonizes federal employees and encourages the dangerous belief that physically resisting lawful officers is an act of democratic heroism.

A nation may welcome immigrants while still controlling its borders. It may recognize immigrants’ economic contributions while enforcing removal orders. It may demand humane treatment while maintaining detention facilities. Border security and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Democracy does not collapse when duly enacted immigration laws are enforced. Democracy is weakened when political writers declare laws illegitimate merely because they dislike the president enforcing them.

Stuart's avatar

Excellent analysis. Scott's team offers no practical solution.

People need something they can vote for that isn't founded on luxury beliefs.

Sergio Antonio's avatar

It’s unfortunate how accurate this prediction came to be now in the summer of 2026. The assault on immigrants, specifically the racist targeting of black and brown immigrants (because I have yet seen any Russians or Eastern Europeans sent back).

The fact that everything else is falling apart like the economy for most Americans, the price hike on consumer goods cause of the Trump Tax aka Trump Tariffs, the K shape economy, the foreign policy travesty, and continuing war hasn’t converted his followers really shows that is has a strong hold on his cult.

Let’s hope that these midterms takes away the house and senate from the weak and complacent republicans.

Xion's avatar

A part of me feels bad for Scott. This should be his big week.

He paid $20M to have Gavin Newsom appoint him to the board of UC Regents, he should be receiving all the accolades for a successful Merger & Acquisition, and instead he’s being roasted harder than Scott Wiener at a Tranny event. “Scott Galloway, the professor, leftist commentator, and useful idiot who was shocked to find himself on Zohran Mamdani’s new pied-à-terre tax list last week, is still complaining about it a week later.” Ouch!

“A useful idiot is a derogatory political term for a naive or gullible person who unwittingly supports a larger agenda, cause, or ruthless regime. This person thinks they are fighting for a good goal, but they do not realize they are being manipulated by the movement's leaders to advance a different purpose”

You would think that someone who is a professor would have a better understanding of communism and what has happened all throughout history when the communists come into power

“All these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders, they are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize the nation. When the job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist–Leninists come to power, obviously they get offended. They think that they will come to power. That will never happen. Of course, they will be lined up against the wall and shot.”

Craig Foster's avatar

So funny, all the drama perfectly outlines, the unconstitutional governance of the last administration from 2020 to 2024. This administration was elected to bring back government of the people, by the people, and for the people and constitutional law. Deportations are required to develop balance in our voter roles. Illegally letting immigrants vote, have Social Security cards and tamper with the balance of American government is exactly what this administration is correcting. Once we restore constitutional law, voting security, and accuracy we can let the American people decide how to govern. Scott forgets that the people own the house, not the elitist institutions, including Harvard that forgot why they exist.

Rose ludwig's avatar

I would like to see the actual number of people being deported and to where , by who and their actual destination. Is it other country prisions? Is it their country of origin ?

How many are continuing to be detained and just moved from state to state ? Are they using these detainees as free labor for there private corporations? Ect.

Rose ludwig's avatar

No, there's not 100× illegals killing Americans. You need to stop falling for that propaganda bullshit and start learning the real facts.

Education matters.

OldIndie's avatar

ICE are legally Police with the power of arrest and law enforcement regarding suspected criminals.

Illegal immigrants are criminals, hence the term 'illegal.'

What is so hard for the woke/left to understand here?

If you want to fix immigration, have Congress do it. Don't blame the police.

Narrative Field Notes's avatar

This is such a powerful example of why storytelling matters. Before people will accept extraordinary policy, they need a story that makes it feel necessary. “Invasion.” “Enemy within.” “Worst of the worst.” Those aren’t just descriptions—they’re narrative architecture. Change the story people believe, and you change what they’re willing to accept.

Lisa Sands's avatar

Scott, thank you for writing this with the help of your brilliant team of researchers.

After wiping my tears during this read I am fortified at helping people vote now and in November, and sharing this post. The darkness of this POS and his administration, and thugs (that just voted Blanche in) is too much to bear.

Patty's avatar

The best post yet. Lay it out for the American people and a call to action!