DHS Has a Message to the Anti-ICE Crew Protesting Nationwide Ops - and They're Not Going to Like It

The anti-ICE crew was busy trying to get in the way of federal agents at an ICE facility outside of Chicago on Friday as agents were trying to drive vehicles out of the facility. Three people were arrested, and law enforcement had to deploy smoke to control the anti-ICE activists.

The interaction that received the most attention was with Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh. She was moved out of the way of a vehicle after she tried to stand in front of it. She claimed it was a "violent abuse of power."

Speaking with a reporter after the incident, Abughazaleh said, "We have no weapons. We have signs and chants and songs, and they are treating us like it's a war zone."

You don't have the right to block law enforcement in the course of their duties. The anti-ICE people can protest all they want without getting in the way of law enforcement. These folks are ridiculous, yet this person wants to be a member of Congress. This is how far the Democrats have fallen. And they wonder why they are so low in the polls now in terms of their popularity. Normal American voters look at this and think it's nuts. They want the law enforced; that's what they voted for.

Now, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responding to the anti-ICE folks, and they're mincing no words with this cadre of characters. They said these actions will not stop them from doing their job. Looks like the candidate "found out."

Individuals and groups impeding ICE operations are siding with vicious cartels, human traffickers, and violent criminals.

You will not stop @ICEgov and DHS law enforcement from enforcing our immigration laws. https://t.co/GoUq47TC8S
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) September 19, 2025

Individuals and groups impeding ICE operations are siding with vicious cartels, human traffickers, and violent criminals. You will not stop @ICEgov and DHS law enforcement from enforcing our immigration laws.

No, it's not "fascist" or "racist" to enforce the law to protect the American people.

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin also decimated Abughazaleh:

McLaughlin told Fox News Digital, "This fame-hungry, cable TV candidate is so desperate for her 15 minutes of fame that she will go so far as to put our law enforcement at risk and obstruct justice."

DHS is right.

These protesters don't care what the illegal aliens did or how they may have hurt the American people. The anti-ICE crew is on the wrong side of history while ICE is doing its job for the country, despite very challenging obstacles.

Notice another problem with their narrative? They complain about ICE/federal agents being masked...while being masked themselves. The irony seems lost on them. ICE has a reason - they're being threatened and doxxed. Why is the anti-ICE crew wearing masks if they think what they are doing is right? Why don't they stand with the courage of their convictions?

They've also been ramping up their resistance theater in New York as well, as we reported. But they're not stopping ICE from doing its job there either.

New York Officials Arrested While Conducting Resistance Theater at ICE Facility

The radical leftists keep trying, but they keep failing.

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