Justice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is 'Domestic Terrorism'

[Kamaji]

Justice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is 'Domestic Terrorism'

A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations.

Autumn Billings | 12.26.2025

After leaving the Chicago area in November, U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino made an unexpected return on December 16, along with several hundred federal agents and a film crew. Returning to the same aggressive tactics that sparked protests earlier this year, local officials criticized Bovino for using immigration operations as a form of political theater.

In a statement to the Chicago Sun-Times, a spokesperson for Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson called out agents for allegedly arresting people indiscriminately and without arrest warrants. The mayor's office also criticized them for filming the raids and "[turning] these operations into a spectacle."

"This activity is occurring alongside a film crew, which appears to be using these raids to create content at the expense of traumatizing families," said the spokesperson. "These tactics are destabilizing, wrong, and must be condemned."

But this is not the first time a federal agency has filmed immigration operations for political theater. In addition to being tasked with carrying out record levels of deportations, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under President Donald Trump has seemingly been transformed into a propaganda arm to sell the public on the president's increasingly unpopular immigration policies. Examples include a video posted on X by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of agents raiding a South Shore apartment building on September 30 and a video posted on the DHS' official Instagram account depicting various immigration arrests.

As Bovino and the DHS have embraced the power of cinema to document immigration arrests and promote current policies, the Trump administration is also cracking down on individuals who choose to record immigration operations. In a December 4 memo, originally leaked by journalist Ken Klippenstein, the Justice Department encourages federal prosecutors to press "domestic terrorism" charges against people for "doxing" law enforcement officers. While undefined in the memo, "doxing" in this context is understood to mean the publishing of information that identifies law enforcement officers, which the Justice Department insinuates is a threatening activity used to "silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society."

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Source:  https://reason.com/2025/12/26/justice-department-says-filming-immigration-raids-is-domestic-terrorism/

[bilo]

... to press "domestic terrorism" charges against people for "doxing" law enforcement officers...

Of course the headline is misleading.

I'm all for videoing arrests of illegal aliens. Let the Rats cement their support of illegal immigration. A majority of American citizens will nor buy into the suicidal empathy they are selling.

[Smokin Joe]

ICE raids and deportations are "increasingly unpopular"?

Not among the folks I know.

I smell a propaganda PSYOP here, designed to steer the herd.

[bilo]

ICE raids and deportations are "increasingly unpopular"?

Not among the folks I know.

I smell a propaganda PSYOP here, designed to steer the herd.

I think you're right.

Crime is down by alot. Wages are rising faster than inflation. Rents are stabilizing. What's not to like?

[Smokin Joe]

I think you're right.

Crime is down by alot. Wages are rising faster than inflation. Rents are stabilizing. What's not to like?

Go on X and the Communists/Socialists are flooding the place with proletarian pipe dreams and whinging all over about removing illegals. It's a PSYOP, likely paid posters from God knows where, who want Americans to live with the self-inflicted misery they do. I think that after the protests (Anti-ICE, ANTIFA, etc.,) we're seeing the era of paid protesters and rent-a-mobs and there is little grassroots going on out there. There is a sh*t ton of astroturfing going on, and it will only get worse running up to the elections, especially as more fraudulent NGOs and fraud operations are shut down (mainly because I think a LOT of that money was being cycled (laundered) back to the Democrats).

[bilo]

Go on X and the Communists/Socialists are flooding the place with proletarian pipe dreams and whinging all over about removing illegals. It's a PSYOP, likely paid posters from God knows where, who want Americans to live with the self-inflicted misery they do. I think that after the protests (Anti-ICE, ANTIFA, etc.,) we're seeing the era of paid protesters and rent-a-mobs and there is little grassroots going on out there. There is a sh*t ton of astroturfing going on, and it will only get worse running up to the elections, especially as more fraudulent NGOs and fraud operations are shut down (mainly because I think a LOT of that money was being cycled (laundered) back to the Democrats).

All correct, unfortunately the legacy media refuses to report the news accurately and we live in an era where a lot of people are easily manipulated into embracing suicidal empathy.

The mid terms will be either a consolidation of the turn towards embracing western civilizational values, or a retreat. Lets hope most people don't quit trying to save this country.