Rogan Discovers ICE is 'Gestapo,' Ignores Decades of Deportation Brutality
When Joe Rogan described ICE as using 'Gestapo tactics' under the Trump administration, The Hill framed it as a significant 'break' from the former President. What's omitted from this narrative, and often from mainstream discourse, is that ICE's brutal enforcement methods didn't magically appear with Trump. Former President Obama, for instance, deported more people than any other president in U.S.
history, earning him the moniker 'Deporter-in-Chief' from immigrant rights advocates. The policies Rogan now finds 'horrifying' are, unfortunately, deeply embedded in a system that has long prioritized punitive measures over human rights. It's fascinating how a sudden realization becomes breaking news, especially when the 'break' is from a system of institutionalized cruelty that many have been
screaming about for decades. One might wonder, what took so long for such an obvious truth to penetrate certain influential spheres? Perhaps it's easier to criticize a past administration's 'Gestapo tactics' than to confront the ongoing, bipartisan machinery of deportation and detention that continues to operate.