Clayton High School administration in North Carolina intervened as the school&#8217;s valedictorian went off-script during the graduation ceremony’s welcome speech on May 28.
High schooler Leen Hijaz, a Muslim student from Johnston County, North Carolina, abandoned her pre-approved speech and instead ranted about ICE and voiced her support for Palestine. 
“Before I leave the stage, I have one last thing to say. Every single person here has a voice, and we are privileged to have the freedom to use it when so many people around the world are struggling and suffering to be heard,” Hijaz said. 
“Whether it’s the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan and so many other countries around the world, or the families being torn apart by ICE. These are not distant issues,” Hijaz said. “They are happening right now as I speak.”
A video of the graduation ceremony spread on social media.
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“My point is, we’re not given a voice to stay silent,” Hijaz said to cheers from some people in the crowd. The video also shows other graduates behind her look at each other in confusion as they realized Hijaz was going off-script. The school’s principal, Melissa Hubbard, then rushed onto the stage and stopped her from continuing her impromptu political speech. 
A day after the graduation, Hijaz took to <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@leenhijaz_/video/7645327665137798414?_r=1&amp;_t=ZT-96lijkzSKQ1">TikTok</a> complaining about her diploma being withheld and her experience as a Muslim-Arab in Johnston County, North Carolina. 
“If I submitted [the speech] to the school they would have disapproved it immediately because of how racist they are,” Hijaz said. “I really think if you think I did something wrong then there’s something wrong with you.” 
Johnston County Public Schools confirmed that Hijaz has been awarded her diploma. 
&#8220;School administrators intervened in order to maintain the integrity and focus of the program in real time,” school leadership <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/02/valedictorian-graduation-speech-interrupted-clayton-north-carolina/90370678007/">said</a> in a statement to USA TODAY. “This action was not about limiting a student’s voice, but about ensuring that a school-sponsored event remained consistent with its intended purpose.&#8221;

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Police arrested over 20 people Sunday night outside a New Jersey ICE detention center that has been the target of violent protests. 
The arrests came after nearly a hundred people armed with helmets, gas masks, and shields broke curfew outside the Delaney Hall detention facility, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/01/us-news/at-least-20-protesters-arrested-at-ice-detention-center-delaney-hall-as-dhs-vows-zero-tolerance-for-rioters/">reported</a>. One person scrawled “Kill ICE” on a wall in spray paint while crowds chanted leftist slogans like “Give Peace a Chance” and “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA.”
Local authorities imposed a 9:00 p.m. curfew after riots broke out at Delaney Hall on Saturday evening as tires were burned and objects thrown at police officers. Activists have alleged that illegal immigrants detained at the facility have faced poor conditions. 
New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said that those arrested included a group who came to “protest armed with helmets, shields, or gas masks” and that they “deliberately refused to comply with repeated orders to leave the area.” 
“Their actions put the public at risk, and I am grateful to law enforcement for de-escalating the situation,” she said. 
The Department of Homeland Security posted several videos on social media on Sunday night showing protesters being arrested. “If you riot, you will face the consequences. Law and order prevails,” the department said. 
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If you riot, you will face the consequences. Law and order prevails. <a href="https://t.co/FQSchSqfz0">https://t.co/FQSchSqfz0</a>
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In other posts, the department said it would have “ZERO tolerance for rioters” and that “lawlessness, rioting, and obstruction of law enforcement will NOT be tolerated.”
Top New Jersey Democrats have continued attacks on ICE despite the violent protests over the weekend. 
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka used most of his <a href="https://x.com/CityofNewarkNJ/status/2061223246435963170">statement</a> on the unrest to condemn ICE, adding at the end that “it is also important to note that burning tires in the street, throwing bottles or bricks, and bringing weapons to protest have made this situation more dangerous” and “detracts” from the protests “original premise.” 
Commenting on the protests from Saturday night, Democrat Governor Mikie Sherrill <a href="https://x.com/GovSherrillNJ/status/2061042802285240365">said</a> that her “number one priority will always be public safety, and I remain dedicated to protecting constitutional rights. We simply cannot let ICE surge into our community.”
The unrest comes as detainees at Delaney Hall engage in a purported “hunger strike.” A source <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-hunger-striking-ice-detainees-are-secretly-pounding-doritos-and-honey-buns">told</a> The Daily Wire last week that detainees are opting to not eat their regular meals while going to the commissary to purchase snacks instead. Meanwhile, activist groups are <a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/protesters-clash-ice-agents-during-protest-delaney-hall-newark-amid-hunger-strike-inside/19179424/">claiming</a> that detainees are being fed spoiled food and meals contaminated with worms.
Under President Donald Trump, ICE facilities and officers have faced an increase in protests and attacks. Earlier this year, Homeland Security reported an 8,000% increase in death threats against ICE officers and their families. Earlier this year, conservative commentator Ben Ferguson noted that ICE did not face similar pressure from the legacy media and the Left under former President Barack Obama.
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CNN&#8217;s Abby Phillip: ICE raids? Controversial. Always have been, always will be.<a href="https://x.com/benfergusonshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benfergusonshow</a>: Not really! When Obama was doing them it wasn&#8217;t controversial! You guys [CNN] did ride alongs! <a href="https://t.co/AeJ1IsVlk8">pic.twitter.com/AeJ1IsVlk8</a>
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CNN host Abby Phillip said that ICE raids were &#8220;controversial&#8221; and &#8220;always have been, always will be.&#8221;
&#8220;Not really,&#8221; Ferguson replied. &#8220;When Obama was doing them it wasn&#8217;t controversial. You guys did ride alongs.&#8221;
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Protestors Demonstrate And Clash With Officers Outside Delaney Hall Detention Facility In Newark

‘Kill ICE’ Rioters Came Prepared. So Did Police.

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Protests at the Newark, New Jersey, ICE facility grew increasingly violent this week, prompting federal officials to arrest over a dozen rioters.
Nine agitators were arrested overnight on Thursday, according to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. They join another six rioters who were arrested Wednesday for assaulting ICE officers. Around 100 agitators gathered at the detention facility Wednesday and Thursday, with several of them throwing objects at federal officers.
In a video posted by commentator Nick Sortor, an agitator screamed at an ICE agent, telling him that he took a photo of the agent’s face and threatened to murder his family.
“I’ll kill your whole f*cking family. Your whole f*cking family is dead — your children, your wife, all dead. I have your face, motherf*cker!”
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This is EXACTLY WHY ICE agents are FORCED to wear masks
ICE Newark rioter: “I HAVE YOUR FACE, MOTHERF***ER”
“Your WHOLE F***ING FAMILY is DEAD!”
“Your KIDS. Your WIFE. ALL DEAD!”
This is the type of TERRORISM Democrats WANT ICE agents to face by de-masking them <a href="https://t.co/d36Iv8JpAj">pic.twitter.com/d36Iv8JpAj</a>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2060016960243425647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
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That agitator has not been arrested, but acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the federal government is looking for the agitator over his threats to the federal officer.
“I promise you, we’ll find him, and when we find him, we will arrest him, because it is a crime not only to threaten law enforcement, but not surprisingly to threaten their family as well,” Blanche said.
According to federal law, it is illegal to threaten violence against a federal officer by threatening to murder a family member, and the offense carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
&#8220;On the evening of May 28th, approximately 100 anti-ICE rioters gathered around the Delaney Hall ICE facility. Rioters bit, kicked, and punched law enforcement officers,&#8221; Mullin <a href="https://x.com/SecMullinDHS/status/2060346993805811767">said</a>. &#8220;Governor [Mikie] Sherrill refused to allow state police to assist our officers. Assaulting and obstructing [ICE] law enforcement is a crime and felony. Throughout the night, nine rioters were arrested. Anyone who assaults law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Law and order will prevail.&#8221;
Sortor also reported that a group of ICE protesters resorted to racist remarks, <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2060045284969775610">chanting</a>, &#8220;You will hang!&#8221; to a group of ICE agents that included black officers.
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🚨 DISGUSTING: Leftist rioters in Newark scream “YOU WILL HANG” at a group with black ICE agents
One agent is seen shaking his head.
I’ve REPEATEDLY witnessed leftists make racist remarks towards black or brown ICE agents
Leftists are the ACTUAL racists.
Absolute SCUMBAGS. <a href="https://t.co/Q0iob7iV0U">pic.twitter.com/Q0iob7iV0U</a>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2060045284969775610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The rioting started after reports that ICE abused 300 detainees who began a hunger and labor strike over alleged inhumane conditions. Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Rep. Robert Menendez Jr. (D-NJ) have attended the demonstrations to express solidarity with protesters.

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‘I’ll Kill Your Whole F*cking Family’: Leftist Rioters Arrested During Wild Clash With ICE

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She wanted to turn Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers into concentration camps to hold &#8220;American Zionists.&#8221;
Now, Democrat congressional candidate Maureen Galindo, who is also a sex therapist, lost a primary runoff for a key House seat in Texas.
Her opponent, Bexar County sheriff&#8217;s deputy Johnny Garcia, won the Democratic nomination for Texas’ 35th Congressional District with 64% of the vote on Tuesday, <a href="https://www.ksat.com/vote-2026/2026/05/26/texas-congressional-district-35-runoff-election-results-republicans-democrats-compete-for-redrawn-seat/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to KSAT.
Galindo&#8217;s campaign previously posted on Instagram that &#8220;when Maureen gets into Congress, she&#8217;ll write legislation so that all Zionism and support of Zionism is undoubtedly Anti-semitic, since it&#8217;s Zionists harming the Semites.&#8221;
The post added that she would &#8220;turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking,&#8221; adding that it would serve as &#8220;a castration processing center for pedophiles which will probably be most of the Zionists.&#8221;
She later clarified on her Instagram that the comments did &#8220;NOT mean putting all Jews in internment camps.&#8221;
Conceding the race Tuesday night, Galindo declared that “Israel won tonight but this is only the beginning for US,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/27/texas-democrats-reject-house-candidate-who-called-imprisoning-zionists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Washington Post.
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Republicans tried to meddle in our election but tonight TX Democrats showed that we won’t stand for hate.
I’m honored to be your official democratic nominee for Texas’ 35th Congressional District. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TX35?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TX35</a> is officially in play. No te metas con Tejas
— Johnny Garcia For Congress (@johnnygarciatx) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnnygarciatx/status/2059465937586139468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Garcia wrote on X that while &#8220;Republicans tried to meddle in our election &#8230; TX Democrats showed that we won’t stand for hate.&#8221;
Galindo&#8217;s earlier antisemitic post about repurposing ICE detention centers drew criticism from her fellow Democrats.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) labeled Galindo as &#8220;MAGA Maureen&#8221; in a recent ad.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Galindo&#8217;s remarks &#8220;absolutely disgusting,&#8221; adding that &#8220;the donors behind the Republican super PAC funding her should be exposed.&#8221;
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If Galindo wins. I will force a vote to expel her, everyday, until we achieve that objective! I will hold the floor everyday until she is gone. My grandmother was part of the kindertransport out of Berlin. Her parents were killed in Auschwitz. My kids are never going to “the… <a href="https://t.co/uAQ0Ajca4F">https://t.co/uAQ0Ajca4F</a>
— Jared Moskowitz (@JaredEMoskowitz) <a href="https://x.com/JaredEMoskowitz/status/2057137765431538160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Reps. Josh Gottheimer (NJ) and Jared Moskowitz (FL) also pledged to expel Galindo from Congress if she won her election.
&#8220;My grandmother was part of the kindertransport (sic) out of Berlin. Her parents were killed in Auschwitz. My kids are never going to &#8216;the camps,'&#8221; Moskowitz said in an earlier X post.

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The Trump administration is making plans to pull Customs officers from international airports as a punishment for sanctuary cities that refuse to play ball with federal immigration authorities.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin revealed on &#8220;Hannity&#8221; Tuesday night that officials are &#8220;currently drawing up plans&#8221; to stop the processing of international travelers into sanctuary airports. The latest update on the proposed action comes amid a days-long anti-ICE protest taking place outside a federal immigration detention center in Newark.
Several Democrats, including New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, have joined protesters outside the Delaney Hall detention center, where agitators have clashed with federal authorities. Some demonstrators have attempted to block entrances to the facility as local police refused to respond, Mullin said.
Authorities arrested some of the rioters Tuesday night for allegedly assaulting, resisting, and impeding federal officers, according to DHS.
Earlier Tuesday, Mullin met with White House officials to discuss his potential airport action, he said.
&#8220;I said If they&#8217;re going to not allow us to go out and arrest the worst of the worst and then when we call for assistance at the facilities that the street it belongs to the city, if it belonged to us we would take care of it, but it belongs to the city and they&#8217;re barricading our employees from coming in and out of the facility, then why are we processing international flights into the airport there?&#8221; Mullin said.
&#8220;We are currently — which we are not initiating yet — but we are currently drawing up plans to say listen, in these sanctuary cities, where the local radical left Democrats aren&#8217;t allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn&#8217;t be processing international flights into their cities either because they don&#8217;t want us to enforce immigration, but they want us to process immigration at their facilities? Nothing about that makes sense to me,&#8221; he added.
Mullin first teased the proposal in April as a way to force sanctuary cities to cooperate with federal immigration agents.
“I believe sanctuary cities is not lawful,” Mullin told Fox News’ Bret Baier at the time. “I don’t think they’re able to do that, and so we’re gonna take a hard look at this.”
“If they’re sanctuary cities, should they really be processing Customs into their city?” Mullin asked. “If they’re a sanctuary city and they’re receiving international flights, and we’re asking them to partner with us at the airport, but once they walk out of the airport they’re not gonna enforce immigration policy, maybe we need to have a really hard look at that because we need to focus on cities that want to work with us.”
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— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer/status/2059631005716156852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The potential move comes just weeks ahead of the FIFA World Cup, which is expected to draw millions of foreign travelers to the United States.

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That’s what I want to say to Alex Gervasi, a paid Zohran Mamdani influencer, who recently posted a social media <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWehnSricXr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">reel</a> declaring that J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series taught her everything she needed to know about “fascism.” Gervasi, who says she volunteers in immigration courts, offered this insightful gem: ICE agents are comparable to Dementors, because both “patrol hallways.” One looks for half-bloods, the other for people illegally residing in the country after bypassing our immigration laws.
Quite the stretch. But I’m glad she made it, because it gives us the opportunity to dismantle her bloody narrative piece by piece.
First, let’s address the premise of her argument: that J.K. Rowling is a “transphobic, right-wing, lunatic.” 

Incorrect — on all counts. 

Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book in an Edinburgh café while her infant daughter napped beside her, having recently fled an abusive marriage. She became a feminist icon. She is, by any serious measure, a formidably intelligent, philanthropic activist who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. She supported the Labour Party for years, vocally opposed Scottish independence, and was adamantly against Brexit. She was, in short, the liberal establishment’s dream — until she committed the unthinkable: she broke ranks with the progressive vanguard to argue that sex is real, sex is binary, and a woman is not a costume a man can put on.
Rowling is not transphobic. A phobia, by definition, is a fear. She does not fear transgender people — she has explicitly stated she supports their right to live free from harassment. What she maintains, correctly, is that biological sex is real, immutable, and distinct from gender identity, and that self-identification policies can undermine women’s hard-won protections in single-sex spaces, sports, and medical services. She opposes the surgical and chemical alteration of minors. She is commonsensical. She lives in the world of observable reality, not the relativism that insists biological sex is merely a social construct. She is right.
Now, to the Harry Potter-as-an-antifascist-manifesto argument — our influencer seems to have consumed something stronger than Butterbeer, because one simply cannot conflate the half-blood persecution of Voldemort’s regime with American immigration enforcement without abandoning all logical rigor.
Many of the illegal immigrants she is so passionately defending have entered our sovereign nation, bypassed established vetting processes, ignored or fled immigration hearings, and are living among citizens while accessing American housing, education, and healthcare — in some jurisdictions, even participating in elections. Contrast that with the legal immigrant: a cornerstone of this nation, who spent time, money, and genuine effort into assimilation, who learned the language, who embraced American civic culture. Those muggles are welcome. They are, in every meaningful sense, American.
A half-blood — a person born to one magical and one non-magical parent — has no analog to an illegal immigrant. If anything, a half-blood maps far more neatly onto an American citizen with one immigrant parent. The persecution Rowling depicts is irrational bigotry directed at an immutable biological characteristic. Illegal entry into a country is not a birth status. It is a policy violation.
As for ICE agents being Dementors? ICE officers enforce democratically passed federal law. They detain individuals who have violated immigration statutes, often after due process proceedings, and their work directly protects American communities from cartel activity, fentanyl trafficking, and the strain of an overwhelmed immigration system. Dementors, for the record, guard actual criminals and feed on human despair. If we’re hunting for that particular archetype in the real world, I’d suggest looking considerably further left. 
The crowning irony is that J.K. Rowling did mock fascism in her books. She did mock racism. She continues to oppose both. She constructed an entire fictional universe as a sustained meditation on the dangers of blood purity ideology, authoritarianism, and mob conformity. She won. The books are beloved the world over — including, apparently, by people who now use them to smear her as a fascist because she won’t agree that biology is a social construct. 

We do not live under a fascist regime. Our leaders are not rounding up people for their bloodlines. These are rhetorical cudgels, deployed in lieu of actual argument when policy disagreement becomes too uncomfortable to engage with honestly.
J.K. Rowling simply acknowledges that biological sex is a real and immutable characteristic. In the wizarding world of Harry Potter, perhaps the rules are different. But we do not live in the wizarding world. We live in this one. Pretending otherwise — subordinating observable and scientific reality to ideological comfort — is not progressivism. It is, to borrow a phrase, mental.

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Bruce Springsteen straight-up said he does not care if he alienates part of his fan base as he prepares to launch a politically charged tour later this month. 
The 76-year-old New Jersey native will kick off his “Land of Hope &amp; Dreams American Tour” in Minneapolis on March 31. Ahead of the tour, he is also scheduled to perform his cringe protest anthem “Streets of Minneapolis” at a “No Kings” rally in St. Paul on Saturday.
“The tour is going to be political and very topical about what’s going on in the country,” Springsteen <a href="https://www.startribune.com/bruce-springsteen-streets-of-minneapolis-first-avenue-no-kings-rally-tom-morello-max-weinberg/601632600">told</a> the Minnesota Star Tribune. “Minneapolis and St. Paul, that was the place I wanted to begin it, and I wanted to end it in Washington.”
Springsteen said he views the current political climate as one of the most consequential periods in modern American history.
“I don’t know of another time when the country has been as critically challenged and our basic ideas and values as critically challenged as they are right now,” he told the outlet. “I’d have to go back to 1968 when I was 18 years old to another moment when it felt like the country was so on edge and like it felt there was simply so much at stake as far as who we are and the country we want to be and the people we want to be.”
When asked about potential “blowback” from critics and fans who disagree with his political views, Springsteen insisted he is not concerned.
“I don’t worry about it,” he told the Star Tribune. “My job is very simple: I do what I want to do, I say what I want to say and then people get to say what they want to say about it.&#8221;
&#8220;The blowback is just part of it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I’m ready for all that.”
Singers Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers, along with leftist actress/activist Jane Fonda, will also attend the &#8220;No Kings&#8221; rally in St. Paul this weekend.
Springsteen was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-releases-cringe-protest-song-about-minneapolis">roundly mocked</a> for releasing “Streets of Minneapolis” earlier this year, a song written in response to leftist agitators being killed after confrontations with federal immigration agents. The lyrics, filled with anti-ICE and anti-Trump propaganda, are about as subtle as a freight train.

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Leftist Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is threatening to arrest federal immigration agents helping at airports during the partial government shutdown.
Krasner made the remarks during a Tuesday press conference at the Philadelphia International Airport, one of roughly a dozen airports where the Trump administration has deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to offset Transportation Security Administration staffing shortages.
&#8220;You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county of Philadelphia, I prosecute you. That is how it works,&#8221; Krasner said. &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t take a phone call from the president saying &#8216;Let him go.&#8217; No, the president cannot pardon you. I&#8217;ll say it again, the president cannot pardon you. And yes, I will put you in handcuffs, and I will put you in a courtroom, and if necessary I will put you in a jail cell.&#8221;
Krasner also warned against excessive force, citing recent controversies involving federal agents in Minnesota.
&#8220;If you decide to make the terrazzo floor of this airport anything like what you did in the streets of Minneapolis, which involved the criminal homicide of unarmed innocent people, we are not having that here,&#8221; Krasner said. &#8220;To any agent who might think about doing it an illegal way, I&#8217;ll be seeing you in court, and you&#8217;re not gonna like it.&#8221;
The comments come as ICE agents have been deployed to assist with airport operations during the ongoing DHS shutdown, which has strained TSA staff.
During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday, TSA Acting Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill said the additional ICE personnel have provided relief at the airports experiencing long lines.
&#8220;The ICE agents that are there are doing non-specialized screening functions, it&#8217;s been incredibly helpful to alleviate the burden on our workforce and we&#8217;re getting positive feedback from passengers and our field leadership alike,&#8221; McNeill said.
With no end to the shutdown in sight, travelers are forced to wait hours in lines to reach a TSA screening point at some airports. More than 3,450 TSA officers, who account for roughly 11.76% of the workforce, called out on Sunday, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/travel/precheck-clear-airport-wait-times/#:~:text=TSA%20staffing%20shortages%20hit%20major,an%20impasse%20over%20DHS%20funding." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NewsNation. Since the shutdown began in mid-February, more than 450 TSA officers have quit.
At Houston&#8217;s George Bush International Airport, where wait times hovered around four hours Tuesday, ICE officers distributed water, assisted travelers, and helped maintain order in long lines, The Daily Wire observed.
Some passengers took the time to thank the officers and shake their hands as they waited.

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The Dublin-based rock band U2 just released a tribute song dedicated to Renee Good, the anti-ICE activist who was killed during an altercation with ICE officers in Minneapolis last month.
The song “American Obituary,” part of the six-track EP “U2 Days of Ash,” debuted on Wednesday, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/02/19/us-news/u2-american-obituary-song-invokes-renee-nicole-good-ice-shooting-in-days-of-ash-ep/">The New York Post</a>. 
“Renee Good born to die free/American mother of three/ Seventh day January/ A bullet for еach child, you see,” the lyrics say in part.
“The color of her eyе/ 930 Minneapolis/ To desecrate domestic bliss/ Three bullets blast, three babies kissed/ Renee the domestic terrorist???”
The refrain says: “What you can’t kill can&#8217;t die/ America will rise/ Against the people of the lie/ I love you more/ Than hate loves war.”
U2 lead singer Bono <a href="https://propaganda.u2.com/">described</a> the new release as a “song of fury… but more than that a song of grief” in a statement <a href="https://propaganda.u2.com/">published</a> on the band’s digital fanzine, which is called “Propaganda.”
“Not just for Renee but for the death of an America that at the very least would have had an inquiry into her killing… for her family as well as the credibility of law enforcement and the critical role they play in keeping the peace, keeping the citizenry safe,” the singer said. 
He also tried to explain why he, an Irishman, is involving himself in American politics.
“U2’s been banging on about America most of our artistic life… this is a country we love and has loved us back. Amazingly,” Bono said. “Americans for the most part have given U2 and me in particular permission to mouth off… And on this stuff I think people know that I’ve been an equal opportunity pest on the left as well as the right.”
Despite these attempts to justify the song, the Irish recording artist got blasted on social media.
“It appears Ireland has stronger illegal immigration laws than the U.S. Maybe U2 could sing a song about that,” an X user <a href="https://x.com/clayton_be61039/status/2024288299825668277">replied</a>.
“As an American, I can comfortably say, I don’t give a sh** what any band thinks…especially a foreign band,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/TexasExec16/status/2024308019928990078">agreed</a>.
“No songs dedicated to all the victims killed by illegal aliens …. Hmmm,” another <a href="https://x.com/Antillothegreat/status/2024288247870812644">observed</a>.
This is the second recently released mainstream “protest song” dedicated to anti-ICE sentiment. Far-left activist singer Bruce Springsteen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-releases-cringe-protest-song-about-minneapolis">released</a> “Streets of Minneapolis” in January after spending one day writing it. That song was also mocked online.

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“Sinners” actress Wunmi Mosaku claims she can&#8217;t enjoy her Oscar nomination because of ICE enforcing the law amid the protests and recent deaths of anti-ICE agitators. 
“I’ve not been able to celebrate because of what’s going on right now, with the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minnesota and the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy,” Mosaku <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/wunmi-mosaku-sinners-interview-fm3xsw8c6">told</a> The Sunday Times in a recently published interview. “It’s difficult to hold both the nomination and the news because one feels beautiful and one is so dark and heavy; truly dystopian — how can I possibly go out and buy some drinks and enjoy the moment?”
“[My husband] is not as shocked as I am at the news,” the actress went on. “There’s a very strange American psyche where terrible things happen and people still can go to work the next day, whereas I’m floored for a week and think, ‘How are people going to crowded places when this has just happened?’ I want a cocoon. My reaction reminds him that this is not normal.”
Mosaku was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2026 Academy Awards. The Oscars, hosted by Conan O’Brien, will be held on March 15.
Many Hollywood stars have weighed in with their thoughts on the enforcement of immigration laws, with several showing up to events wearing anti-ICE buttons and making impassioned speeches.
Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny said during his Grammys acceptance speech: “Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say: ICE out. We are not savage. We are not animals. We are not aliens. We are humans, and we are American.”
“Every day I think I’m not going to be shocked anymore and then I’m shocked,” actress Jamie Lee Curtis <a href="https://variety.com/2026/politics/columns/jamie-lee-curtis-ice-abhorrence-distraction-epstein-files-1236653979/">told</a> Variety earlier this month, adding that she believes it’s an “abhorrence.”
“It’s just inhuman. It is inhuman the way this administration is treating its citizens and its constituents and people in need,” she said. “The ICE situation is out of control. It’s simply a distraction so that we don’t pay attention to the Epstein files.”
At Sundance Film Festival last month, “Don’t Worry Darling” actress Olivia Wilde suggested that ICE is a criminal organization.
“We can’t go another day accepting this as our new norm. It’s outrageous. People are being murdered, and I don’t want to normalize seeing that violence—on the internet or on film. It’s hideous. If we can do anything to support the movement to cast ICE out and delegitimize this criminal organization, then that’s what we should be doing,” she said at the time.
“Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage recited an extremely cringeworthy poem dedicated to Renee Good, the anti-ICE activist killed by an ICE agent during an altercation in Minneapolis. Singer Bruce Springsteen released a protest song last month that included the lyric, “ICE out of Minneapolis.”

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not hold back on celebrities who publicly disparage ICE agents enforcing immigration law, noting how they are often the worst sorts of hypocrites.
“It&#8217;s very ironic and, frankly, sad to see celebrities who live in gated communities with private security, with millions of dollars to spend protecting themselves, trying to just demonize law enforcement public servants who work for the U.S. government to enforce our nation&#8217;s laws,” she said on Tuesday.
“You didn&#8217;t hear this same type of uproar from celebrities in Hollywood when the previous administration allowed an invasion of our nation&#8217;s borders, and allowed innocent women and girls like Jocelyn Nungaray and Laken Riley to be killed, raped, and murdered at the hands of people who should&#8217;ve never been in our country in the first place,&#8221; Leavitt added. 
She said law enforcement is just “trying to do their jobs” and noted how celebrities were silent when these innocent people were murdered. “I think that speaks to the unfortunate irony,” Leavitt added.
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Her comments come days after celebrities were out in force at the Grammys wearing ICE OUT and BE GOOD pins to protest ICE operations. Several attendees also commented on the situation from the stage and the red carpet.
Justin Bieber and his wife, Hailey Bieber, sported the buttons, as did Billie Eilish, Kehlani, Samara Joy, Joni Mitchell, and Jack Antonoff.
Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, who will be performing at this year&#8217;s Super Bowl halftime show, devoted his Grammy acceptance speech to protesting ICE enforcing immigration laws.  
“Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say: ICE out,” the singer, whose legal name is Benito Ocasio, said from the stage during the awards ceremony Sunday night. The crowd of celebrities responded with thunderous applause. “We are not savage. We are not animals. We are not aliens. We are humans, and we are American,” he added.
It wasn’t just the Grammys, either. At Sundance Film Festival last month, “Don’t Worry Darling” actress Olivia Wilde suggested that ICE is a criminal organization.
“We can’t go another day accepting this as our new norm. It’s outrageous. People are being murdered, and I don’t want to normalize seeing that violence—on the internet or on film. It’s hideous. If we can do anything to support the movement to cast ICE out and delegitimize this criminal organization, then that’s what we should be doing,” she <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/olivia-wilde-natalie-portman-criticize-161351146.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGFpbHl3aXJlLmNvbS9uZXdzL3RoZS1sZWZ0cy1wZXJmb3JtYXRpdmUtb3V0cmFnZQ&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHb4SQlShleWpLv5AcMo-Gkg7Mu8np1GqfAMtJFlRfllLvNjab03YdfxW7974iy_CXfIVg9doush6JZxFZucTeiasW1edUnlP6Uo1KLLxINyvHY2F4AFfXW69nHiYrwYBwJNaKZ0cEEW-DMvuyFVEGFTtPLXmdw13dxLFA3R52vk&amp;guccounter=2">said</a> at the time.
“Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/game-of-thrones-actor-recites-cringeworthy-poem-dedicated-to-anti-ice-activist-renee-good?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Game+of+Thrones%E2%80%99+Actor+Recites+Cringeworthy+Poem+Dedicated+To+Anti-ICE+Activist+Renee+Good">recited</a> an extremely cringeworthy poem dedicated to Renee Good, the anti-ICE activist killed by an ICE agent during an altercation in Minneapolis. Singer Bruce Springsteen released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-releases-cringe-protest-song-about-minneapolis?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Bruce+Springsteen+Releases+Cringe+Protest+Song+About+Minneapolis">protest song</a> last month, which included the lyric, “ICE out of Minneapolis.”

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“Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage recited an extremely cringeworthy poem dedicated to Renee Good, the anti-ICE activist killed by an ICE agent during an altercation in Minneapolis. 
The poem, entitled &#8220;For Renee Good,&#8221; was written by Amanda Gorman, best known for reciting a spoken-word poem at President Joe Biden&#8217;s inauguration on January 20, 2021. 
“They say she is no more,/ That there her absence roars,/ Blood-blown like a rose./ Iced wheels flinched &amp; froze./ Now, bare riot of candles,/ Dark fury of flowers,/Pure howling of hymns,” Dinklage recited in the clip that’s been circulating online.
“If for us she arose,/ Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,/ Crouches our power,/ The howl where we begin,/ Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater/ Of the worst of what we’ve been,” the poem continues.
“Change is only possible,/ &amp; all the greater,/ When the labour/ &amp; bitter anger of our neighbors/ Is moved by the love/ &amp; better angels of our nature./ What they call death &amp; void,/ We know is breath &amp; voice; / In the end, gorgeously,/ Endures our enormity.”
It concludes: “You could believe departed to be the dawn/ When the blank night has so long stood./ But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,/ When they forever are so fiercely Good.”
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The <a href="https://x.com/TheAmandaGorman/status/2009432288661000193?lang=en">poem</a> was posted by Gorman last month. She’s the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017 and was also dubbed “the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1953542945086840">worst poet in America</a>” by The Daily Wire’s own Ben Shapiro.
“She’s like if Shel Silverstein were clobbered by a two-by-four and after being run over by a truck,” Shapiro said of her poetry skills. “Trite, stupid, awful trash.”
Gorman has recited poetry about liberals, including failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris. She also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scar-mangled-banner-bidens-inaugural-poet-rewrites-national-anthem-for-july-4?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Scar-Mangled+Banner%E2%80%99%3A+Biden%E2%80%99s+Inaugural+Poet+Rewrites+National+Anthem+For+July+4">came under fire</a> for rewriting the words to The Star Spangled Banner in 2022. 
Celebrities, in particular, have latched onto Renee Good as being a martyr for their anti-ICE cause. Several A-listers have been spotted wearing “ICE OUT” and “BE GOOD” pins at various Hollywood events and have spoken publicly on the topic.

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‘Game of Thrones’ Actor Recites Cringeworthy Poem Dedicated To Anti-ICE Activist Renee Good

'Game of Thrones' Actor Recites Cringe Poem About Anti-ICE Activist Renee Good

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