My Philly Daily Crime Beat Column: ICEbreakers — The War On U.S. Immigration And Customs Enforcement

 Philly Daily ran my Crime Beat column on the war on ICE.

You can read the column via the link below or the following text:

 Davis: ICEbreakers — The War on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Philly Daily

Amid the calls for the defunding or outright abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the federal law enforcement agency performs their difficult duties in Minneapolis and elsewhere in the country, the protests and the efforts to thwart the ICE special agents in the streets is dangerously increasing.

These protests have been encouraged by elected officials, celebrities and shadowy organizations that pay professional protestors to hit the street  

ICE agents have been pelted with rocks, bottles and snowballs. They have been physically assaulted, hit with moving cars, and one agent had his finger bitten off by a protestor.

The protests have become even bolder since ICE agents shot and killed protesters Alex Fretti and Renee Good. Anti-ICE protestors have in effect declared war on the federal law enforcement agency.

The shootings are under active investigation and protesters, politicians and commentators ought to wait for the investigations to conclude before they pass judgement.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has called on sanctuary politicians to stop the dehumanization and vilification of ICE law enforcement

DHS released a threatening voicemail left for an ICE agent in Minnesota on January 24. A partial transcript of the voicemail is offered below:

“You’re a f**king fascist pig. You should f**king kill yourself. I hope your wife dies. I hope your mom and dad die. I hope everything wrong that could go in your life happens. I hope you have the most miserable life,” and on and on it went. 

“Our ICE law enforcement officers are now facing an 8,000% increase in death threats against them and a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them while they risk their lives every single day to remove murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists, and gang members from American neighborhoods,” stated Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin (seen in the above photo). “Make no mistake, threatening rhetoric and this unprecedented violence against our law enforcement is incited by sanctuary politicians through their repeated vilification and demonization of law enforcement.

“Comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences. The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night. The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”   And just who are the protestors and politicians protecting from ICE? On January 26, DHS highlighted ICE arrests of national security threats since January 20, 2025. “Just a year ago, under Joe Biden, our border was wide-open and criminals, gang members, and terrorists were released into our communities,” said McLaughlin. “President Trump and Secretary Noem unleashed ICE to target the worst of the worst, including national security threats. In one year of the Trump administration, ICE has arrested national security threats—making America safe again. We are delivering on the American people’s mandate to make America safe again, and we’re just getting started.” Some of the worst of the worst national security threats arrested include: Leonel Alexander Velasquez-Hernandez, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador and known MS-13 gang member. His rap sheet includes arrests for murder, assault, dangerous weapons with intent to injure, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy assault, and stalking, and convictions for conspiracy to assault and participating in criminal gang activity. An immigration judge ordered him removed in 2025. He was removed in January 2026. Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi, a criminal illegal alien from Iraq. His criminal history includes charges for rape, menacing, criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, and possession of a weapon. He was convicted on federal charges of false statements on immigration application. He is identified as being a member of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, a foreign terrorist organization. This criminal was ordered removed in 2022. ICE arrested him on November 7, 2025. Gaulner Uliel Pineda Castillo, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala and known associate of the MS-13 gang. He was arrested for kidnapping in a plot involving MS-13 gang members and weapons. ICE arrested him on April 20, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. He was removed on April 30, 2025. Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, a criminal illegal alien from Sudan, previously convicted on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and false statements. ICE arrested him on June 26, 2025. Fares Abdo Al Eyani, a criminal alien from Yemen, previously convicted in the Northern District of California for conspiracy to unlawfully export defense articles in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. ICE arrested him on January 21, 2025. Ashraf Farhan Husny Sulaiman, a criminal illegal alien from Jordan, previously arrested for transporting stolen property and convicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States. He has had a final order of removal since 2015. ICE arrested him on December 8, 2025. Majid Ghorbani, a criminal illegal alien from Iran who served in the Iranian military. He was charged with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government and convicted for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and petty theft. ICE arrested him on February 22, 2025. ICE removed him on September 28, 2025.

Paul Davis’s Crime Beat column appears each week. He is also a contributor to Broad + Liberty and Counterterrorism magazine. He can be reached via pauldavisoncrime.com.