DHS Press Release Boasts they Removed More than Half a Million People from the US in 2025

On October 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced “record-breaking statistics with more than 527,000 illegal aliens removed under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.”

The post ends with the following paragraph:

“lllegal aliens can take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering illegal aliens $1,000 and a free flight to self-deport now. We encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right, legal way to live the American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.”

DHS continues making videos and online posts with claims that people who leave on their own will have the ability to reenter legally while those who are arrested and deported will never be allowed to return. This is not true. In many cases, such as those where the person had previously had contact with immigration officials, the outcome of them leaving on their own will be exactly the same as if they arrested and removed by DHS.

You should not assume what they say is true and should make sure you check with an immigration attorney before making any sort of decision like that.

Screenshot of @ICEdeports Instagram page

DHS is using so much hyperbole, politically charged language, and outright misinformation that it is basically operating as a propaganda department. They even have multiple new social media accounts like this new Instagram account with the username “ICE Deports” where they post videos every day bragging about how ICE agents are willing to arrest pregnant women, won’t hesitate to hit a blind man, and don’t care if there are kids in the car when they smash the windows for no apparent reason. I was shocked when I learned the account was run by the government. It is really wild to see the US Government posting this kind of North Korea-style propaganda. It’s even more shocking to see that the majority of the comments are people cheering them on or thanking the ICE agents. It’s like waking up in an alternate dimension.

In that post Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claims that “this is just the beginning. President Trump and Secretary Noem have jumpstarted an agency that was hamstrung and barred from doing its job for the last four years. In the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges and threats to law enforcement, DHS, ICE and CBP, have not just closed the border, but made historic strides to carry out President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country. Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence: Migrants are now turning back before they even reach our borders. Migration through Panama’s Darien Gap is down 99.99%.”

In an interview on 60 Minutes on November 2, 2025, President Trump said that he thought ICE hasn’t gone far enough and that he wishes they could do even more but the Judge’s are holding him back. These are pretty crazy times so be safe out there.

@ICEdeports posting videos of their "officers" brutalizing non-violent women and young men who are not resisting
@ICEdeports posting videos of their “officers” brutalizing non-violent women and young men who are not resisting

these people are evil


eff ice

US revokes Colombian president’s visa over comments made about Trump

The United States announced it was revoking the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro’s, visa after he gave a speech urging U.S. soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump’s orders. President Petro was in New York City visiting the U.N. and gave a speech on the Street on Friday while he was at a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

The Department of State said that the President’s statements were ‘reckless and incendiary’ resulting in his visa being revoked.

“Disobey Trump’s order! Obey the order of humanity! As happened in the First World War, I want the young people, sons and daughters of workers and farmers, of both Israel and the United States, to point their rifles not toward humanity, but toward the tyrants and toward the fascists.”

President Gustavo Petro dismisses the US decision to revoke his visa and accused Washington of violating international law over his criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“I no longer have a visa to travel to the United States. I don’t care. I don’t need a visa… because I’m not only a Colombian citizen but a European citizen, and I truly consider myself a free person in the world,” he said.

“Revoking it for denouncing genocide shows the US no longer respects international law,” he adds on a post on X.

The two presidents have been in a social media tiff since almost immediately after Trump took office. In February they were in a Twitter back and forth threatening each other with tariffs over Trump’s treatment of migrants.

Earlier this week on Tuesday at the UN General Assembly President Petro called for a criminal investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump and other officials involved in the month’s deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean that the White House has said were transporting drugs for Venezuela, according to AP News which quoted him as saying:

“Criminal proceedings must be opened against those officials, who are from the U.S., even if it includes the highest-ranking official who gave the order: President Trump…the men were not drug traffickers; they were simply poor young people from Latin America who had no other option.”

President Gustavo Petro posted this longer message on Twitter Responding to the visa revocation:

His message translated to English reads:

I arrived in Bogotá and found out that I no longer have a U.S. visa. To go to Ibagué for the great Tolima convention for democracy, I don’t need a visa. Separating the U.S. from Colombia is what the mafias need. What the U.S. government is doing to me breaks all the norms of immunity on which the functioning of the United Nations and its General Assembly is based. There is total immunity for presidents attending the Assembly, and the U.S. government cannot condition the opinion of the U.S.

The fact that the Palestinian Authority was not allowed entry and that my visa was revoked for asking the U.S. and Israeli armies not to support a genocide, which is a crime against all of humanity, demonstrates that the U.S. government no longer complies with international law. The United Nations headquarters cannot continue to be in New York.

UPDATE

After returning to Colombia and learning of what the State Department had said, the President posted this to twitter, which indicates that he was voluntarily surrendering his visa.

Bogotá, Sep. 27/2025
DIGNITY YES, VISA NO
In my capacity as Legal Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic, I have decided to voluntarily RENOUNCE my United States visa.
I do so in solidarity with President Gustavo Petro and because I am convinced that the DIGNITY of Colombia is above any personal privilege. The sovereignty of our Nation is not conditioned or subordinated.
Colombia IS TO BE RESPECTED.
Augusto Ocampo
Legal Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic

9/24/2025: ICE AGENTS OUT IN FULL FORCE — Brentwood, Bayshore, Islip, Farmingdale

You can get alerts of ICE sightings in the Long Island area using this excellent tool created by Islip Forward, The Long Island ICE Tracker. Just visit that website and you can see where ICE has been spotted that day and you can also scroll through to see sightings on previous days. If you want to stay vigilant and find out right away if ICE is in your area, there are instructions on the site for how to install the app on your phone and get notifications to alert you right away of sightings of ICE on Long Island.

You can also contribute to the project if you’d like. If you spot ICE out in your area you can submit the sighting on that site to let others known. Read the instructions on their site to find out all the details and the proper procedures for making a submission. The more people that participate in submitting sightings the better the tool will be.

Neither NYVL nor I are affiliated with Long Island ICE Tracker or Islip Forward. I am sharing this information because I think this is a really useful tool and more people should be using it. Today it was helpful to me as well since it is the reason I noticed that ICE has apparently ramped up their operations on Long Island and are suddenly out in force in Latino neighborhoods on the South Shore of Suffolk County. Users have submitted pictures of ICE agents apprehending people in the three neighboring cities Brentwood, Bay Shore, and Islip. There was also a submission showing ICE agents further north in Farmingdale.

I’ve had this application installed on my phone for months and I have never seen a day with this many ICE alerts in neighboring cities. ICE is extremely active on Long Island right now, much more than they had been thus far in Trump’s ethnic cleansing project. Again, ICE agents have been spotted in Brentwood, Bay Shore, Islip, and Farmingdale.

If you have seen ICE raids or arrests going on anywhere else in the New York area you should report it to Long Island ICE Tracker so they can spread the word. You can also let me know by shooting me an email or using the contact form and I will post updates as well.

Tom Homan, the man serving in the non-existent position of “Border Czar” who took a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents weeks before Trump appointed him to his new fake job, had warned of his intention to step up enforcement efforts in New York after Labor Day. It looks like he was telling the truth about that (the increased enforcement in NY not the $50k bribe).

Stay safe everyone. If you are in Brentwood, Bay Shore, Islip, or anywhere in that general area then you may want to stay inside today regardless of your immigration status. ICE has been very aggressive lately and ICE agents have already put one Long Island man in the hospital and another in his grave.

SOURCES

Long Island ICE Tracker Link: https://www.islipforward.org/ice

View All Sightings Reported to LI ICE Tracker: https://www.islipforward.org/ice-sightings