ICE and CBP Agents Mocking or Laughing at People
19 Examples of ICE and CBP Agents Mocking or Laughing at People
- Teenage son
Minneapolis area ICE facility
Jan 29, 2026A teenager named Anthony was trying to get needed, live saving heart medication to his detained 58-year-old father and was cruelly laughed at by ICE agents instead. According to Anthony, "I gave an ICE agent my dad's medicine, but I'm not sure if he got it because the ice agent just smirked at me. He laughed in my face." He had to return with lawyers and medical professionals to ensure his father received the medication. - Francisco Chan Reyes
San Antonio, TX
Jan 28, 2026Francisco Chan Reyes was racially profiled by ICE agents who swarmed his vehicle, immediately smashed his window without any warning, pepper sprayed him and handcuffed him face down in the pavement suffering a head injury and burns. One agent laughed as he withered in pain. He was detained for hours as his valid paperwork and work permit were falsely called into question. - Skye & ElizabethU.S. Marine Corp veteran & passenger
U.S. Citizen
Minneapolis, MN
Jan 17, 2026Disabled U.S. Marine Corp veteran Skye and her friend Elizabeth were violently dragged from her car for merely observing ICE operations from her vehicle at a safe distance. Agents mocked her deep voice, repeatedly referred to her as "it" and laughed after an agent said, "Is it a guy or a girl?" They aggressively threatened to tase Elizabeth if she moved. - Woman following ICE vehicles
U.S. Citizen
St Louis Park suburb of Minneapolis, MN
Jan 13, 2026A woman was accosted, assaulted, threatened and mocked by ICE agents for merely filming them from her car at a safe distance.- Her phone was snatched from her hand by an ICE agent while she was recording him. He threatened, "have y’all not learned from the past couple of days" in reference to a woman who was recently shot and killed by an agent. Then he slammed her head into her car after which she was handcuffed and forced against an ICE truck.
- The same agent then threatened her again with "Is this how you want to die, with a f#%king bullet in your skull?" He then grabbed her collar choking her to a point where she could not breathe.
- Other agents showed up and forced her to the ground where one agent further intimidated by asking if she "learned her lesson." When she called him out for it, they laughed and said they were going to let her go but now changed their mind and left her crying and hyperventilating sitting on the ground in handcuffs for a while.
- An ICE agent returned and pulled her up so forcefully that she fainted and was left flat down on the pavement without agents rendering any help. When she awoke, agents laughed and said "see, she's faking."
- She then later fainted a second time and awoke on her side on the pavement this time with her handcuffs removed, no aid rendered again and free to go.
- Patty O’Keefe and Brandon SigüenzaTrained ICE Observers
U.S. Citizen
Minneapolis, MN
Jan 13, 2026Trained observers had their car vents pepper sprayed and windows smashed by an ICE agent for documenting their actions and said of recently murdered Renee Good, "that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead." One agent ripped the whistle off Brandon Sigüenza's neck taunting that he's "gonna be needing this later." Other agents taunted and mocked Patty O’Keefe including calling her ugly. They were detained for 8 hours and released without charges. - Rev. Kenny CallaghanPastor
Minneapolis, MN
Jan 9, 2026Reverend Kenny Callaghan had an ICE agent point a gun in his face and ask, "are you afraid now?" for simply telling him to stop harassing a woman. He was detained for 30 minutes during which the agent repeatedly returned to ask if he was "afraid yet" and then finally let go without any charges after which the agent made a racist comment, "You’re white anyway. You wouldn’t be any fun."
Whipple ICE facility in Minneapolis, MN
Jan 8, 2026An ICE goon took a rose from a makeshift memorial to Renee Good who their fellow agent murdered and mockingly placed it in his lapel as he walked back and then gave it to a female agent after which they both laughed.- Teenage girl
Chicago, IL
Dec 17, 2025A teenage girl is left terrorized by overly aggressive questioning by immigration agents who are seen laughing afterwards. - Somali woman U.S. citizen
U.S. Citizen
Minneapolis, MN
Dec 5, 2025A Somali woman U.S. citizen was accosted by multiple ICE agents, zip-tied and detained 24 hours in Minneapolis for no reason. She was touched inappropriately and mocked with agents saying, "What could you be hiding under your hijab?" and "This would be the wrong attire to try and run away from us in." - Marimar Martinez & Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz
U.S. Citizen
Chicago, IL
Nov 20, 2025Marimar Martinez & Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz were targeted by CBP agents who instigated an accident.- An agent in a vehicle yelled out "do something b#tch" after which another agent escalated and shot at her five times of which she was hospitalized with a bullet wound.
- The shooting agent sadistically bragged afterwards, "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys" and then later in response to a news article on the incident, "Read it. 5 shots, 7 holes."
- Both were initially charged with assault, but prosecutors ended up dropping all charges with prejudice as evidence showed it was CBP who were negligent.
- In addition, the offending agent drove the vehicle 1000 miles away to Maine immediately afterwards which was against protocols so presumably was done to hinder investigations into his culpability.
- Border Patrol Agents
Cloud Gate Sculpture in Downtown Chicago
Nov 10, 2025Dozens of Border Patrol agents sadistically celebrated a terrorizing excessive use of force against a Chicago Mexican-American neighborhood by doing a photo-op at the Cloud Gate sculpture where one agent yelled, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'" and everyone else responded, "Little Village!" - 23-year-old woman
U.S. Citizen
Gresham suburb of Portland, OR
Nov 4, 2025A 23-year-old woman U.S. citizen taking photos of unmarked federal immigration vehicles had her car window broken, handcuffed and detained in a cell for 7 hours with chains around her legs She was denied a phone call to a lawyer with an obvious lie that the landlines were down and during her detention agents were "laughing like it was a joke." - Observers outside an ICE facility
Peaceful Protestor
San Pedro, CA
Nov 1, 2025Multiple ICE & DHS goons wore Halloween masks in October while driving to work as a means to intimidate and mock protestors peacefully observing them.- A man in a "Chucky" mask rolled down his window and stared at protestors wanting to be seen. Chucky is a horror movie serial killer.
- An agent in a "Momo" mask which is also associated with violence.
- A Mr. Potato Head mask
- An observer rightly noted "We expect some level of decorum from government officials" and found it "deeply disturbing" that they were "laughing as they were heading out."
- 14-year-old girl and her mother
Wilder, ID horse race track
Oct 21, 2025A 14-year-old girl was dragged out of her family truck by gunpoint during an ICE raid where she fell to the ground resulting in bruising on her ribcage and was then zip-tied. Her mother, Anabel Romero, was shoved to the ground and was kicked repeatedly resulting in bruising of her ribs and shoulder despite holding her hands empty in the air waiting for instruction. They also put a gun to her head and said they were going to "f%#king blow her head off." She was zip-tied as well and asked to go back to her children of which the agent laughed and said, "we're taking better care of them." They were detained for 3 hours despite telling them her social security number and date of birth and that she had her ID in their truck. - Children Living in Apartment High Rise
Apartment Hirise in South Shore neighborhood of Chicago
Sep 30, 2025Children were zip-tied and detained in "dark vans" for hours of which some were separated from their parents and others completely naked after an ICE raid on an apartment building in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. One agent was observed laughing and said "f#$k them kids" after a neighbor questioned their actions. - Daryn HerzbergAfghanistan War Veteran
U.S. Citizen
Portland, OR ICE facility
Aug 13, 2025Afghanistan War Veteran Daryn Herzberg was violently tackled to the ground from behind by an agent while peacefully protesting outside an ICE facility to the side of their driveway. The incident resulted in "sharp pains when I lay on my left or right side" of which he "can’t get sleep very well." Three days later he was accosted again by four agents suffering a concussion, cuts, scrapes and bruises during which one agent said, "you’re not talking s#$t anymore, are you?" The excessive use of force was egregious enough to warrant a $150k lawsuit against DHS. - Kenny Laynezhigh school senior
U.S. Citizen
Jul 25, 2025U.S. citizen and high school senior Kenny Laynez was told by Border Patrol agents that "You got no rights here. You're an amigo, brother" during a traffic stop in which he said the occupants were not resisting. However, the agents escalated things tasing one passenger in the stomach causing him to fall and spasm and grabbing another by the hair & neck. A hidden smartphone also recorded one agent saying "They're starting to resist more. We're gonna end up shooting some of them." Which was followed with a reply from another who said, "Just remember, you can smell that too with a $30,000 bonus." - Kids at Baseball Practice
Jul 17, 2025Kids practicing with the esteemed Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy were accosted by ICE goons who harassed them with questions including "Where are you from? Where are your parents from?" and when the coach intervened and reminded the agents of how the Constitution works after recognizing their uniforms an agent glibly responded "Oh, another YouTube lawyer" - Somali Uber driver
U.S. Citizen
Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport, MNA Somali Uber driver films video as he is racially profiled and harassed by CBP agents during which an immigration agent makes light of the unlawful killing of a 37-year-old mother of three earlier that day as "I don’t know why they do the head, man" after which CBJ Commander Greg Bovino and other agents laugh and smile.