<p>Whoopi Goldberg immediately backpedaled after claiming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were &#8220;violent criminals,&#8221; saying that she was using &#8220;nuance&#8221; when she made that particular statement.</p>
<p>Goldberg joined her cohosts on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; where they discussed the fatal confrontation between anti-ICE activist Renee Good and the ICE agent who shot and killed her when she accelerated toward him, striking him with her vehicle. Goldberg&#8217;s overall assessment of the situation was that ICE agents were more violent than the people they were apprehending in major cities like Minneapolis.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">After calling all ICE agents &#8220;violent criminals&#8221; before the commercial break, Whoopi comes back and claims that&#8217;s not what she did and whines about people calling her out:<br />
&#8220;Welcome back. Before we go on, I &#8212; before folks gather around and say, &#8216;oh, she&#8217;s accusing all of the… <a href="https://t.co/eCQK46pPPl">pic.twitter.com/eCQK46pPPl</a></p>
<p>— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2010758904565715399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Goldberg began by complaining that the Department of Homeland Security had promised to pick up the worst of the worst and the most “violent criminals” — and reports detailing who ICE agents have arrested since the surge in Minneapolis began indicate they have followed through on that promise.</p>
<p>But Goldberg disagreed with DHS and said that, as far as she was concerned, it appeared that the “violent criminals” were inside ICE.</p>
<p>“This is the thing, you said you were going after the bad guys. That&#8217;s what you said, the violent criminals. And what does it turn out? The violent criminals seem to be in the agency,” she said.</p>
<p>The show cut to a commercial break then, and by the time they returned to air, she was already trying to un-ring the bell.</p>
<p>“Welcome back. Before we go on, I — before folks gather around and say, &#8216;oh, she&#8217;s accusing all of the folks at ICE of being criminals,’ that is not what I&#8217;m doing. And just so I&#8217;m clear, it feels sometimes that there is no one watching the henhouse. Okay? So before y&#8217;all start blowing it into all kinds of other stuff, just know that it&#8217;s nuance speaking,” she said.</p>

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