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For years, the far-left and its media allies have tried to demonize Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), insisting the agency targets innocent people and “terrorizes communities.”
They repeat the same script they used against local police: vilify the officers who enforce the law, and protect those who break it.
However, newly released body-camera footage from a June 10 workplace enforcement operation in Omaha, Nebraska, completely shuts down that narrative.
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This entire video—made public only recently—shows a calm, organized, and lawful ICE operation at Glenn Valley Foods, a food processing plant suspected of employing individuals using stolen or fraudulent identities.
The video documents officers identifying themselves, explaining procedures, and conducting arrests in a professional manner consistent with federal law.
There are no shouting matches, no aggression, and no weapons drawn—just officers methodically verifying identification and ensuring compliance.
According to ICE, nearly 80 individuals were detained that day. More than 60 were transported to the Lincoln County Jail in North Platte pending immigration proceedings.
Three Mexican nationals voluntarily agreed to return home, while three Guatemalan citizens were transferred to a Louisiana facility for removal.
ICE officials confirmed that one had a final deportation order from 2019, another had already been deported four times, and a third had three DUI convictions and an illegal-reentry charge.
Mark Zito, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Kansas City, which oversees Omaha, dismissed the media’s framing that these were simply “hardworking immigrants.”
He called that claim “ludicrous,” noting that the real victims are Americans whose identities were stolen to facilitate illegal employment. “These crimes have lasting effects,” Zito said.
The footage, combined with ICE’s statement, tells a very different story from the one repeated by cable news pundits.
Agents were enforcing existing law, not targeting individuals at random.
Their mission was to prevent employers from hiring workers who entered illegally or used fraudulent identification—practices that hurt both lawful immigrants and American workers.
When force is used in ICE operations, it overwhelmingly comes from suspects who refuse orders, attempt to flee, or resist arrest—not from agents following procedure.
Yet Democrats continue to vilify the agency, portraying every enforcement action as an assault on immigrants rather than an effort to uphold the rule of law.
By demonizing ICE, Democrats are advancing an open-borders agenda disguised as “compassion.”
The result is empowerment for cartels, human-trafficking networks, and employers who exploit vulnerable laborers. Lawlessness spreads, and American workers pay the price.
Every year, ICE arrests thousands of criminals who would otherwise be free in American neighborhoods—MS-13 members, drug traffickers, and repeat offenders with histories of violence.
These are not “victims” of enforcement; they are threats to public safety.
If the mainstream press cared about truth, it would show this full 20-minute video—unfiltered and unedited.
It would reveal the calm professionalism, the transparency, and the procedural accuracy of law enforcement doing its job.
Instead, Americans are shown selective clips meant to inflame emotions and fuel anti-law-enforcement narratives.
ICE agents are not the villains. They are men and women enforcing the laws Congress passed—deserving of the same respect as any officer sworn to protect the United States.
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