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National Hockey League (NFL) legend Wayne Gretzky’s statue outside the Edmonton Oilers’ Rogers Place arena in Edmonton, Canada, was defaced recently with feces.

The Toronto Sun reported that feces were found smeared across the face and jersey of the Canadian hockey legend’s statue on March 21. According to CTV News, a CTV News Edmonton photographer captured pictures of the statue’s defacement and observed a strong odor of fecal matter near the statue.

Following the defacement of Gretzky’s statue, Tim Shipton, executive vice president of external affairs for Oilers Entertainment Group, issued a statement to CTV News, saying, “It’s unfortunate over the past several years we’ve had to deal with issues of disorder in our downtown core.”

Shipton added, “We have zero tolerance for vandalism of any kind within our district, especially one of our city’s most iconic landmarks that celebrates the career of Wayne Gretzky, the greatest hockey player to ever play the game, and his special connection with Oilers fans around the world.”

CTV News reported that the statue, which weighs 950 pounds and is over 9 feet tall, was first unveiled in August of 1989 at the former Northlands Coliseum in Canada before being relocated to Rogers Place in 2016.

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The Oilers Entertainment Group spokesperson explained that the recent defacement of the Gretzky statue was under investigation and that the “appropriate next steps” would be taken when more information became available.

The Post Millennial reported that while the motivation behind the defacing of the Gretzky statue has not yet been revealed, the vandalism incident comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and Canada due to President Donald Trump’s implementation of tariffs against the U.S. ally and his comments about Canada becoming the “51st state.”

According to The Post Millennial, Gretzky has faced criticism from many Canadians over his friendship with Trump. The outlet noted that the Canadian hockey legend attended both Trump’s inauguration and election victory party prior to the recent vandalism incident.

The Post Millennial reported that a petition was started in Canada for Wayne Gretzky Drive’s name to be changed due to the criticism against the Canadian hockey icon and that labels on Gretzky’s wine brand have been defaced in multiple stores.

Pictures of the feces smeared across the face and jersey of the Gretzky statue in March were shared on X, formerly Twitter, by The New York Post. The outlet also shared a picture of Gretzky appearing alongside the 47th president.

Voters in the state of Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to approve an amendment adding Wisconsin’s voter photo identification law to the state’s constitution.

According to The Associated Press, unofficial results from Tuesday’s election in Wisconsin showed that the voter identification amendment requiring voters to show a photo identification passed with roughly 63% of the vote.

Fox News reported that while state law already requires Wisconsin voters to have photo identification to vote in elections, the successful passing of the amendment proposal on Tuesday will now make the voter identification law part of the state’s constitution. The outlet noted that the amendment proposal was placed on Tuesday’s ballot by the state’s Republican legislature to ensure the security of future elections in Wisconsin.

In a statement obtained by Fox News, State Sen. Van Wanggaard (R-Wis.), who helped co-author the voter identification amendment, said, “This will help maintain integrity in the electoral process, no matter who controls the Legislature.”

According to Fox News, the state’s voter identification requirement will now be difficult for Democrats to remove as constitutional amendments require approval by a statewide vote and approval in two sessions of the legislature.

READ MORE: Video: Swing state giving illegal immigrants free voter ID cards, activist warns

Following Tuesday’s vote in Wisconsin, President Donald Trump released a celebratory statement on Truth Social, saying, “VOTER I.D. JUST APPROVED IN WISCONSIN ELECTION. Democrats fought hard against this, presumably so they can CHEAT. This is a BIG WIN FOR REPUBLICANS, MAYBE THE BIGGEST WIN OF THE NIGHT. IT SHOULD ALLOW US TO WIN WISCONSIN, LIKE I JUST DID IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, FOR MANY YEARS TO COME!”

Tesla CEO and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk tweeted that the photo voter identification amendment was the “most important thing” in Tuesday night’s election in Wisconsin.

On Friday, Musk emphasized the importance of the amendment proposal on Tuesday’s ballot, tweeting, “Even more important than the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is the ballot initiative to add voter ID to the state constitution, which will ensure integrity in elections.”

In addition to the voter identification amendment, Wisconsin voters also cast ballots for an opening on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Fox News reported that Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford, a Democrat, defeated Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel, a Republican, in Tuesday’s race.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country to conscript 160,000 men to join the Russian military as the war in Ukraine continues amid the U.S.-led peace deal negotiations with Russia and Ukraine.

According to CNN, Putin recently signed a decree to authorize the next phase of the bi-annual conscription for the Russian military. The outlet noted that the next phase of military conscription, which includes men between the ages of 18 and 30, started on Tuesday and will run through July 15.

Fox News reported that the latest military conscription decree represents Russia’s largest military draft in 14 years. According to Fox News, Russia conscripted 150,000 men last year and 134,500 men in 2022 for service in the Russian military.

Both the Kremlin and the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation have claimed that the new Russian conscripts are not being sent into combat with Ukraine and that the draft is not related to the country’s war in Ukraine, according to Fox News. However, the outlet noted that some of Russia’s conscripts were previously taken prisoners by Ukraine when the Ukrainian military launched an offensive in the Kursk region of Russia last August.

READ MORE: Trump ‘pissed off’ at Putin amid negotiations; Russia responds

Russia’s latest conscription effort comes as Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesperson, told Reuters on Monday that the country is still “working on” a peace deal with Ukraine. Peskov’s comment came after President Donald Trump said he was “very angry” and “pissed off” by Putin’s recent criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) intelligence officer and author of “Putin’s Playbook,” told Fox News that Putin’s plan to conscript 160,000 more men to serve in the Russian military is intended to extend the fighting in Ukraine.

“There’s no ceasefire and no peace plan between Russia and Ukraine to be had,” Koffler said. “What President Trump seeks is regretfully, unachievable. Putin’s goal is to keep fighting, in order to compel Ukraine to capitulate.”

Koffler told Fox News that Putin’s conscription effort is also intended to ensure that Russia continues to have a significant manpower advantage over Ukraine. According to Fox News, Putin previously indicated that Russia should increase the size of its military to roughly 2.39 million service members, including 1.5 million active service members.

“Now that Germany and France are considering to deploy reassurance forces into Ukraine, Putin is factoring in those numbers, so he is increasing his force’s posture, to deter such a deployment or failing to prevent it by force,” the former DIA intelligence officer said.

Koffler added, “Putin has prepared Russia for a long, protracted conflict, in which he wants the Russian forces to be ready to fight till the last Ukrainian and the last missile in the NATO arsenal.”

Val Kilmer, a versatile Hollywood anti-hero of the 1980s and 1990s with star turns as both Batman and Jim Morrison, has died. He was 65.

Kilmer was surrounded by family and loved ones in Los Angeles when he succumbed to a bout pneumonia on Tuesday night, his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, confirmed.

The beloved actor, who also appeared in “Top Gun” and, most recently, its 2022 sequel, was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and underwent two tracheostomies before he eventually recovered, though he has faced some struggles in the years since, including difficulty breathing and talking, she added. His once iconic voice was rendered unrecognizable by the pair of procedures, which had devastating effects on his vocal chords.

“I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizarrely to some,” Kilmer said in “Val,” a 2021 documentary chronicling his career and health journey. “I deny none of this and have no regrets because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed. And I am blessed.”

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kilmer was the youngest actor ever at the time to be accepted to the renowned Juilliard School‘s drama division. He went on to launch a career on stage before moving to the big screen as Nick Rivers in Jim Abrahams’ spy spoof “Top Secret!” in 1984, and then as Chris Knight in the science fiction comedy “Real Genius.” But it was his third role — hotshot pilot Tom “Iceman” Kazansky opposite Tom Cruise — in “Top Gun” that made Kilmer a bonafide Hollywood hit.

“I didn’t want the part. I didn’t care about the film,” Kilmer wrote in his memoir of the role. “The story didn’t interest me.”

Kilmer followed his career-making turn with roles in television movies “Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains” before rounding out the ’80s with appearances in “Billy the Kid,” “Kill me Again,” and “Willow.” He met his future wife Joanne Whalley on set of the latter. They had two children before divorcing in 1996.

Kilmer then turned heads in 1991’s “The Doors” as the band’s legendary frontman, who died in 1971 at age 27.

A product of the Method branch of Suzuki arts training, Kilmer would often throw himself into his role, and Morrison was no exception. He spent the year leading up to production dressed as the rocker and frequented his hangouts on the Strip. On-set, he constantly blasted “The Doors” and demanded to be called Jim. When he played Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” he filled his bed with ice for the final scene to mimic the feeling of dying from tuberculosis.

The same year, Kilmer sported a new set of dark leathers, replacing Michael Keaton as the caped crusader in Joel Schumacher’s “Batman Forever.” The film was a huge box-office success, but Kilmer opted against reprising the role in the next installment. Still, he continued to see success throughout the ’90s with roles including Robert De Niro’s devilish henchman in Michael Mann’s 1995 film “Heat,” Marlon Brando’s wild assistant in John Frankenheimer’s “The Island of Dr. Moreau” and international crook Simon Templar in “The Saint,” directed by Phillip Noyce.

“In an unflinching attempt to empower directors, actors and other collaborators to honor the truth and essence of each project, an attempt to breathe Suzukian life into a myriad of Hollywood moments, I had been deemed difficult and alienated the head of every major studio,” he wrote in his memoir, “I’m Your Huckleberry.”

While Kilmer ‘s career stalled in his later years, he continued to act, even after his tracheostomies left him struggling to speak. For “Top Gun: Maverick,” his most recent role, filmmakers used regenerative AI to read his dialogue, which was later edited into the film.

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A new report claims that the Trump administration has deported more than 100,000 illegal immigrants since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.

A Department of Homeland Security official told The New York Post on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials have arrested 113,000 illegal immigrants and conducted “north of” 100,000 deportations since the start of the president’s second term in the White House.

The New York Post reported that sources suggested the massive number of illegal immigrant deportations since January 20 shows that the president is keeping his promise to the American people to remove illegal immigrants, criminal gang members, and terrorist suspects from the country.

An anonymous ICE source told The New York Post, “He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank!”

According to The New York Post, while the sources did not reveal how many of the individuals arrested by ICE and CBP officials were convicted criminals or what nations the individuals were originally from, the sources said that the majority of the illegal immigrants arrested under the Trump administration are being deported to Mexico.

READ MORE: Video: 17 ‘foreign gang terrorists’ deported by Trump admin to El Salvador

The New York Post also reported that illegal crossings at the southern border between the United States and Mexico dropped to 7,000 in March.

According to The New York Post, the 7,000 illegal border crossings in March is down roughly 94% from the 137,000 illegal border crossings last March under the open border policies of former President Joe Biden’s administration.

Department of Homeland Security Sources described the record low number of illegal border crossings as “the Trump effect.” One source told The New York Post, “Illegal entries into the United States are no longer a backdoor way to getting status.”

A Department of Homeland Security source told The New York Post that illegal immigrants are “scared there are consequences now” amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on the southern border. The source added, “Everyone who is caught is charged and does time.”

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee revealed new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chat logs on Tuesday that show the FBI imposed a “gag order” on the Hunter Biden laptop story that was released in October of 2020 by The New York Post.

In a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, the House Judiciary GOP said that while the FBI had possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop, the FBI “refused to tell Big Tech the truth” when the New York Post published the Hunter Biden laptop story.

The House Judiciary GOP pointed to a report from October of 2024 that outlined the “FBI’s months-long campaign to ‘pre-bunk’ the New York Post story on the Biden family’s corruption” prior to the 2020 election between President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden.

House Republicans noted that the committee’s previous report indicated that the FBI attempted to discredit The New York Post’s story as “Russian disinformation” before it was published and that the FBI continued to discredit the outlet’s story following its publication on October 14, 2020.

In Tuesday’s posts, the House Judiciary GOP revealed that “one FBI analyst tried to tell Twitter that the laptop was real—until his bosses shut him up” on the morning of the story’s publication.

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The House Judiciary GOP wrote, “An internal FBI chat log newly obtained by the Committee shows the FBI deliberately withheld information about the FBI having Hunter Biden’s laptop and an ongoing criminal investigation involving the Biden family’s corruption: ‘do not discuss biden matter.’”

“The internal FBI chat log also shows how far senior FBI officials went to silence this analyst. After the meeting, a senior FBI lawyer put a ‘gag order’ on the analyst,” the House Judiciary GOP added. “The analyst was also ‘admonished’ by FBI staff, who lamented that he still wouldn’t ‘shut up.’”

The House Judiciary GOP noted that “big tech” was able to successfully censor The New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story due to the FBI refusing to comment on the story and the “truth-telling analyst” being issued a “gag order” by the agency. As a result, House Republicans said more than 30 million Americans voted in the hotly-contested 2020 presidential election in the week that Facebook demoted the Hunter Biden laptop story.

“Fortunately, President Trump, @AGPamBondi, @FBIDirectorKash have ended the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, which was responsible for this ‘prebunking’ operation,” the House Judiciary GOP added. “We will continue to work with them to increase transparency and end the weaponization of federal law enforcement.”

Pictures of the FBI chat logs obtained by the House Judiciary GOP were shared Tuesday on social media.

“Do not talk about the Biden matter”

NEW INTERNAL FBI CHAT LOGS SHOW THE FBI IMPOSED A “GAG ORDER” ABOUT THE NY POST STORY ON HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP THE DAY IT CAME OUT

THREAD: pic.twitter.com/Rnc1hHBOir

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 1, 2025

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission.

A young Uyghur rapper and singer-songwriter not seen since his arrest 20 months ago is imprisoned in China, serving a three-year sentence for composing lyrics that “promoted extremism,” according to the Chinese rights advocacy group Weiquanwang.

Yashar Shohret, 26, who previously participated in the 2022 “White Paper” protests in China, has been missing since his arrest on Aug. 9, 2023, in Chengdu, Sichuan province, where he had been going to university.

A new report by Weiquanwang, or Rights Protection Network, a loose network of volunteers in China and abroad seeking to promote legal reforms in China, found that Shohret had been sentenced on June 20, 2024, to three years in prison on charges of “promoting extremism” and “illegally possessing items promoting extremism.”

He appealed the verdict, but the second trial upheld the original sentence, with the prison term lasting until Aug. 8, 2026. He is currently serving his sentence at the Wusu Prison in Xinjiang, the group said.

Radio Free Asia could not independently confirm that. Calls to the prison and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Prison Administration Bureau were not answered. Chinese search engines yielded no public records of Shohret’s arrest, trial or sentencing.

Overseas Uyghur youth activist Aman, who prefers a pseudonym for safety reasons, said the Chinese Communist Party has used high-profile arrests to set an example, but now they often make people “disappear quietly,” without announcing charges or public sentencing.

‘White Paper Protests’

Shohret originally hailed from Bole city, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwestern China, where 12 million Uyghurs live and face widespread persecution and surveillance under Beijing’s rule.

Previously, Shohret had been detained for three weeks for participating in the November 2022 “White Paper” protests, when thousands took to the streets of Chinese cities to protest harsh COVID-19 restrictions.

The rare public protests were triggered by a big apartment building fire in Urumqi in which several Uyghur residents died. Many demonstrators held up white sheets of paper to express that their voices were stifled.

Shohret sang a memorial song in Uyghur language for the fire victims and was immediately suppressed by the police and detained for 21 days on suspicion of “gathering a crowd to disrupt social order” before being released, Weiquanwang said.

‘Charged out like cheetahs’

Shohret, who performed under the stage name “Uigga,” seems to have gotten in trouble for songs he composed.

One of them, a 2023 song titled “Wake Up” that was listed on NetEase Cloud Musica popular Chinese music streaming service, contained the following Uyghur lyrics:

“They charged out like cheetahs.

Who? A group of hunters…

When I woke up,

The surroundings made me sink into deep thought.”

In his lyrics, Shohret appears to metaphorically refer to himself as prey in a hostile environment, his fate already decided, said Sawut Muhammed, director of East Asian Affairs at the advocacy group World Uyghur Congress.

Those words were probably viewed as threatening to the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, said Muhammed.

“In the CCP’s view, emphasizing the Uyghur language could lead to a rise in Uyghur nationalism,” he said. That’s “detrimental to Xi Jinping’s vision of building a unified Chinese nation.”

Sawut pointed out that after 2017, when there was mass internment of Uyghurs in camps, China arrested many Uyghur scholars, singers, poets and writers. Many were accused of using politics in their art.

Although China’s constitution guarantees the right to use one’s mother tongue, the implementation of bilingual education after the year 2000 effectively requires Uyghur students to learn Mandarin and suppresses the Uyghur language, he said.

Gong Zi Shen, a Chinese current affairs commentator living in the United States, said Shohret’s lyrics are not explicitly political, but describe inner emotions. While the White Paper movement was sparked by dissatisfaction with the lockdown and zero-COVID policies, Shohret was not a leading student figure, he said.

However, Beijing cannot tolerate even the suggestion of dissent, and sentenced him for “extremism,” a punishment far more severe than would be applied to majority Han Chinese, Shen said.

A Russian spokesperson responded on Monday after President Donald Trump said he was “very angry” and “pissed off” by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership amid the negotiation process of a peace deal in Ukraine.

In an interview with NBC News on Sunday, Trump said, “If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia.”

The 47th president told the outlet that he was “very angry” and “pissed off” when Putin criticized Zelensky’s leadership. Trump also claimed that Putin’s comments were “not going in the right location.”

READ MORE: Trump threatens Iran with major ‘bombing’ if they refuse nuclear deal

Following Trump’s comments regarding his frustration with Putin’s criticism of Zelensky, Trump addressed the issue with reporters Sunday on Air Force One, saying, “I don’t think he’s going to go back on his word. You’re talking about Putin. I don’t think he’s going to go back on his word. I’ve known him for a long time. We’ve always gotten along well.”

“I was disappointed in a certain way some of the things that were said over the last day or two having to do with Zelensky,” Trump added. “He considers Zelensky not credible. He’s supposed to be making a deal with him whether you like him or you don’t like him. So I wasn’t happy with that. But I think he’s going to be good.”

TRUMP ‘WASN’T HAPPY’ THAT PUTIN CONSIDERS ZELENSKY ‘NOT CREDIBLE’

“I think he’s going to BE GOOD. And I certainly wouldn’t want to put secondary tariffs on Russia. But if they were put on, it would not be very good for them,” US President Donald Trump claimed.

Zelensky… pic.twitter.com/jbyXpzKbIe

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) March 31, 2025

In response to Trump’s comments, Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesperson, told Reuters on Monday that while Russia is still “working on” a peace deal with Ukraine, the peace deal is a “time-consuming process.”

Peskov told Reuters, “We are continuing to work with the American side, first of all to build our bilateral relations, which were badly damaged during the previous (U.S.) administration.”

“And we are also working on the implementation of some ideas related to the Ukrainian settlement,” the Russian spokesperson added. “This work is underway, but so far there are no specifics that we could or should tell you about. This is a time-consuming process, probably due to its complexity.”

Block, the financial technology company that operates Cash App, Tidal and Afterpay, is laying off about 10% of its Atlanta-area workforce.

According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice sent to the state, 49 employees out of 474 assigned to the company’s Atlanta office on North Avenue will be let go by mid-May. Employers must file WARN notices ahead of major layoffs or plant closings. Impacted roles include software engineers, recruiters, compliance analysts and project managers, among several others.

Representatives for Block did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The layoffs are not just confined to Atlanta. Companywide, Block is laying off 931 people, or roughly 8% of its workforce, according to an internal email obtained by TechCrunch. It is also closing more than 700 open roles at the company, with the exception of key leadership and critical operation roles, as well as those that have progressed to an offer stage.

Block, formerly known as Square, was co-founded in 2008 by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter. The company provides mobile payments services, point-of-sale hardware and software. Its portfolio also includes Square, which allows businesses to accept card payments and manage business operations; Tidal, a music streaming service; and bitcoin service Bitkey. Dorsey serves as CEO and chairman. The company has had a footprint in Atlanta for more than a decade.

The company’s Square and Cash App platforms have millions of users. According to the company’s most recent annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, about 4 million sellers used Square in 2024 to make 5.2 billion sales transactions. Cash App had 57 million monthly transacting activities in December, up by 1 million year over year.

The company ended 2024 with $2.8 billion in net income, up from $9.7 million in 2023, according to its filing. Much of this increase was because of a one-time deferred tax benefit of $1.9 billion. Shares are down, however, 34% year over year.

In the email obtained by TechCrunch, written entirely in lowercase, Dorsey denied the layoffs are designed to “hit a specific financial target” or to replace employees with artificial intelligence. Instead, they are specific to the company’s needs “around strategy,” he wrote. The layoffs flatten the organization so it can “move faster and with less abstraction.”

“We need to move to help us meet and stay ahead of the transformational moment our industry is in,” Dorsey wrote.

In the email, Dorsey said the company is cutting 460 people for performance reasons. This includes employees scoring a “below” rating on the company’s internal performance tracking metrics. Some 391 people are being cut for “strategy” reasons — that is, reducing from teams that are off-strategy and fixing our “discipline ratios.” The company has also laid off 80 managers, with 193 moving to individual contributor roles.

This is not the first round of layoffs to impact Block’s Atlanta workforce. In January 2024, 27 roles were eliminated, including the head of global communications for Tidal and the head of product design for the company’s financial services division, according to another WARN notice. Companywide, Block cut about 1,000 roles at that time.

In the email, Dorsey wrote that this is the toughest part of his job.

“We must have a very high bar of correctness for us to take any action, which takes iteration and time to get right,” Dorsey wrote. “I always balance this with the fact that everyone here, and those that are departing, has equity in our company. It’s my job to increase that value. We believe this will help us focus and execute better to do just that.”

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem warned on Sunday that anyone who threatens or attempts to harm law enforcement officials will be prosecuted to the “fullest extent of the law” following a viral video that featured a TikToker encouraging people to “shoot at ICE agents on sight.”

In a viral video on TikTok, social media user belal_donq, whose profile appears to have been removed, said, ” Shoot at ICE agents on sight. That’s right. If ICE agents are trying to take you or a loved one, shoot them on sight.

“The way they’re pulling up with masks on, with unmarked vehicles, no badge, no nothing, it could be anybody. It can be gang members,” the social media user added. “You have every right to shoot at them.”

In the video, the TikTok user claimed that shooting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would be the “best self-defense case” since people are “just in fear” of their lives and they do not know the identity of the individuals in masks and unmarked vehicles.

“This is ridiculous,” the social media user continued. “What is our country coming to? Why would you wanna be an ICE agent anyway? Do you like separating kids from their parents? Do you like deporting students that are studying? I can understand deporting a gang member or criminals, but innocent people is ridiculous.”

READ MORE: Pics: 16 illegal immigrants arrested in major ICE raid

“The way these ICE agents are pulling up with masks on, unmarked vehicles, they are pulling up like gang members,” the social media user added. “They are pulling up like the Mafia. You might as well shoot them on sight and have your day in court.”

Sharing the video on X, formerly Twitter, Noem issued a major warning to any individuals who take the social media user’s advice to “shoot at ICE agents on sight.”

The Homeland Security secretary warned, “If you threaten or attempt to harm a law enforcement officer we will find you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.”

If you threaten or attempt to harm a law enforcement officer we will find you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. https://t.co/WaJO1iUp2e

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) March 30, 2025

Following the release of the video encouraging people to shoot at ICE officials, National Border Patrol Council Vice President Hector Garza told Fox News, “This kind of rhetoric is not only dangerous, it incites real-world violence and undermines the rule of law.”

In response to the video, Garza encouraged social media platforms to take action against content promoting violence and claimed that free speech does not protect speech “inciting criminal acts.” The National Border Patrol Council vice president added, “Allowing such content to remain online puts lives at risk.”