Swalwell: ICE Has ‘Got to Go’ — ‘I’m Not Going to Fund Another Penny’

February 24, 2026
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Rep. Eric Swalwell's latest outburst on CNN's News Central isn't just another anti-border rant—it's a neon sign flashing abolish ICE while he vows not to fund another penny for the agency. Picture this: a sitting congressman from California, fresh off his failed presidential bid, demanding the dismantling of a key federal law enforcement arm tasked with everything from deporting criminal aliens to cracking down on human trafficking and cartel operations. Swalwell's rhetoric echoes the far-left fever dreams of AOC and her Squad, who’ve long painted ICE as the new Gestapo, but it lands with extra hypocrisy coming from a guy who’s spent years demonizing law-abiding gun owners as domestic threats. In a nation already grappling with record migrant encounters and fentanyl deaths, Swalwell's call to gut ICE feels less like policy and more like political theater designed to appease open-borders donors. For the 2A community, this is a flashing red alert on the slippery slope of selective defunding. ICE isn't just about immigration; it's a frontline enforcer of federal firearms laws, seizing thousands of illegal guns smuggled by cartels across our porous southern border every year—think ghost guns, AKs, and military-grade hardware flooding Chicago streets and fueling gang wars. Data from ICE's own reports shows they've nabbed over 5,000 firearms in operations tied to transnational crime since 2020 alone, often in tandem with ATF stings. If Swalwell gets his way and ICE has got to go, who's left to stem that tide? Not sanctuary-city DAs, that's for sure. This isn't abstract—it's direct implications for self-defense rights, as unchecked cartel arsenals turn American neighborhoods into no-go zones, forcing more law-abiding citizens to arm up just to survive the chaos Swalwell wants to unleash. The bigger picture? Swalwell's ICE jihad exposes the Left's real playbook: defund and disarm the protectors while lecturing the protected. 2A patriots should see this as a rallying cry—support border hawks like Rep. Chip Roy, who’s pushing to claw back ICE funding, and demand Congress tie any agency budgets to real enforcement metrics. If Democrats like Swalwell succeed in neutering ICE, expect skyrocketing crime rates, more illegal guns in criminal hands, and renewed assaults on your Second Amendment as the scapegoat. Time to lock and load the pressure: our sovereignty and safety depend on it.

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Rep. Eric Swalwell’s latest outburst on CNN’s News Central isn’t just another anti-border rant—it’s a neon sign flashing abolish ICE while he vows not to fund another penny for the agency. Picture this: a sitting congressman from California, fresh off his failed presidential bid, demanding the dismantling of a key federal law enforcement arm tasked with everything from deporting criminal aliens to cracking down on human trafficking and cartel operations. Swalwell’s rhetoric echoes the far-left fever dreams of AOC and her Squad, who’ve long painted ICE as the new Gestapo, but it lands with extra hypocrisy coming from a guy who’s spent years demonizing law-abiding gun owners as domestic threats. In a nation already grappling with record migrant encounters and fentanyl deaths, Swalwell’s call to gut ICE feels less like policy and more like political theater designed to appease open-borders donors.

For the 2A community, this is a flashing red alert on the slippery slope of selective defunding. ICE isn’t just about immigration; it’s a frontline enforcer of federal firearms laws, seizing thousands of illegal guns smuggled by cartels across our porous southern border every year—think ghost guns, AKs, and military-grade hardware flooding Chicago streets and fueling gang wars. Data from ICE’s own reports shows they’ve nabbed over 5,000 firearms in operations tied to transnational crime since 2020 alone, often in tandem with ATF stings. If Swalwell gets his way and ICE has got to go, who’s left to stem that tide? Not sanctuary-city DAs, that’s for sure. This isn’t abstract—it’s direct implications for self-defense rights, as unchecked cartel arsenals turn American neighborhoods into no-go zones, forcing more law-abiding citizens to arm up just to survive the chaos Swalwell wants to unleash.

The bigger picture? Swalwell’s ICE jihad exposes the Left’s real playbook: defund and disarm the protectors while lecturing the protected. 2A patriots should see this as a rallying cry—support border hawks like Rep. Chip Roy, who’s pushing to claw back ICE funding, and demand Congress tie any agency budgets to real enforcement metrics. If Democrats like Swalwell succeed in neutering ICE, expect skyrocketing crime rates, more illegal guns in criminal hands, and renewed assaults on your Second Amendment as the scapegoat. Time to lock and load the pressure: our sovereignty and safety depend on it.

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