Libs of TikTok troll and Homeland Safety chief cosplay as ICE brokers

Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem invited Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik on an ICE ride-along in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday.

Raichik proudly snapped some selfies at the back of an ICE van, documenting her expertise as brokers arrested “dangerous” undocumented males accused of crimes within the state. 

“These were criminals.. a gang member.. with long rap sheets. It was a targeted operation to remove criminals from our country who are here illegally,” she wrote on X.

Raichik, who opted to go away her Utah curls and Republican make-up behind—not like ICE Barbie Noem—shared movies from the arrests. 

In certainly one of her movies, Raichik and different members of the group might be seen sticking their cameras into the again of a automobile following the arrest of Jose Escobar-Robles. Seemingly in misery, Escobar-Robles makes use of his toes to defend himself from the cameras. 

“This illegal was so mad he was getting arrested so he tried blocking us and hiding with his CROC,” Raichik wrote on X. 

One other lady might be seen in Raichik’s video, leaning into the automobile to seize footage of him as if she’s filming an animal on the zoo. 

Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik (middle) holds a binder labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” after a press convention on the White Home. 

The Trump administration and fellow Republicans have been persistently dehumanizing people who find themselves deported, no matter whether or not they have been accused of a criminal offense. In some circumstances, the one crime they’ve been accused of isn’t holding a authorized U.S. visa. 

The rhetoric the Trump administration makes use of to explain immigrants—referring to a person as “this illegal” and posting movies akin to ASMR deportation clips—is completed in an effort to take away their humanness, making it simpler for folks to assist these mass deportations.

And Noem’s alternative to incorporate Raichik on the ride-along additionally stands to be questioned. 

Libs of TikTok has a darkish historical past of inciting violence in opposition to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. What began as a troll account shortly grew right into a platform that led to bomb threats and dying threats in opposition to kids’s hospitals and colleges throughout america.

Raichik, who as soon as hid her id earlier than being unmasked, unfold the narrative that LGBTQ+ folks had been “pedophiles” and “groomers”—a story now standard in Russian media.

Now the White Home appears hellbent on together with Raichik in its media pool, kicking out centrist and left-leaning retailers to make room for extremist alt-right creators.

Noem and Raichik’s ride-along additionally marked an enormous day for the Trump administration, because the Supreme Courtroom dominated that deportations to  the notoriously brutal CECOT jail in El Salvador might proceed, ending the non permanent block. 

Regardless of President Donald Trump’s goons admitting that they by accident kidnapped and imprisoned a authorized U.S. resident within the Salvadoran jail, the administration nonetheless plans to hold out its plans to deport blindly and shortly. 

“You’ll see us continuing to partner with El Salvador. CECOT has the capacity for 40,000 individuals, and [El Salvador President Nayib Bukele] has said they’ll take as many as we want to send,” the Noem advised the New York Put up on Tuesday. 

“There’s 14,000 there now,” she continued, “and he said he plans to build another prison right next to it.”

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