ICE Agent Makes Chilling Threat to Woman Filming Him in Public
It is no longer necessary to commit a crime to be considered a criminal in Donald Trump’s America.
A masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent warned a Portland, Maine, woman that her information would be entered into a “nice little database” that would label her a domestic terrorist. His offense? Peacefully filming the street activity of the immigration agency.
“It’s not illegal to record,” the woman can be heard saying in a video published Friday by self-proclaimed activist Nathan Bernard.
“Exactly, that’s what we do,” the agent replies.
“Yeah, why are you deleting my information? » she asked.
“Because we have a nice little database, and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist,” he replied, making her laugh.
“For filming you? Are you crazy?” » she sneered.
ICE Agent in Portland, Maine, Tells Legal Observer She’s a Domestic Terrorist for Recording Him Peacefully, Adds Her to ‘Nice Little Database’ pic.twitter.com/6miHpXUdT7
– Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) January 23, 2026
But this is the current reality under the rule of the Department of Homeland Security. A security threat assessment leakobtained and published Wednesday by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, revealed the department’s intention to change the definition of domestic terrorism to a much broader definition, encompassing a new subset of individuals acting on the basis of “class or economic grievances.”
As Klippenstein points out in his Substackthis could refer to any American.
Meanwhile, ICE and Customs and Border Patrol agents have been granted broad powers to operate under DHS control. with impunitythus giving them the freedom to interact with the American public as they see fit. In Minneapolis alone, officers had the audacity to kill a 37-year-old mother by shooting her multiple times at point-blank range, arrest a 5-year-old in her driveway, arrest American citizens at their jobs, and routinely violate the public’s First Amendment rights by brutalize protesters.
Part of this rush to violence could be due to the agency’s poor recruiting tactics. Federal officers have historically been recruited from smaller law enforcement agencies with years of experience already under their belt, but that tradition has essentially been eradicated in order to satisfy the agency’s “wartime recruiting” hiring spree, which aims to hire up to 10,000 new agents in the coming year.
ICE plans to spend $100 million on online ads in hopes of attracting gun rights advocates and military enthusiasts to its ranks. To do this, they use software that allows them to “geofence” people within the so-called manosphere, identifying those who have recently attended UFC fights, listened to patriotic podcasts, or expressed an interest in firearms and tactical gear.
Last week, law enforcement officials said NBC News that ICE’s AI software had “sent many new recruits to field offices without proper training.”
