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It's all caught on camera. We have the receipts. This is again one of the most important, if not the most important videos we do on the Midas Touch Network. As I asked you over the weekend, let me ask you again because no one else is really covering it the way we do. Please, please, please do me this favor. Share this video again with with as many people as you know. This is part two where we show you Donald Trump's Gestapo raiding the streets, cities, our communities, attacking Home Depot parking lots and food vendors and hardworking people kidnapping people, throwing people into concentration camps. We can't have a media blackout of all of this. There are incredible citizen journalists who are out there exposing this and the fact that the Midas Touch Network has this platform. I need to share with you what's going down I'll give you the same warning I did yesterday, but I. Please, please, please. I ask you to do your best to watch the full video. But the warning is, this stuff is hard to watch. It's hard to see literal Gestapo. ICE agents, just like Nazi Germany, going into our communities, grabbing people, shooting at windows, beating people, disappearing them to concentration camps. People who are just trying to work, people who have contributed to our country. But we have to take a look at it. So the first thing I want to show you is from Norwalk, Connecticut. From this weekend, South Norwalk, Connecticut, ICE agents set up a local police station until the chief forced them out. Soon after, 12 masked agents smashed the windshield of a red pickup and dragged out Ricardo Chavez and his brother. Ricardo ran, but was chased, tased, beaten and shoved, bleeding, into an unmarked ICE car. Despite demanding a warrant and saying his daughter was bringing his papers, they left his wrecked truck in the street for his daughter to recover. She is fresh out of Yukon and now studying psychology. She spoke through a megaphone at a massive vigil outside the station, joined by the mayor, officials and hundreds of residents demanding an end to ICE terrorism in the city. Since ICE appeared Thursday, at least six local families have lost their breadwinners. Black and brown residents are terrified a campaign of terrorism being inflicted by the Trump Gestapo. The rest of us are furious. This is what Trump is funding. This is what ICE is doing, bringing violence, bringing violence to our communities. Thank you, frontwater protectors. Here's what went down in Norwalk, Connecticut. Let's play it.
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Put your hands behind the bed. Put your hands behind the bed, sir. Put your hand behind your back. This is Norwalk, Connecticut. Sir, Please stop. Sir. Please stop, sir. You guys better call an ambulance. He hit his head really hard. Ass pieces of Yo. I want to see the Warren. I want to see the Warren. What my wife is coming for. Oh, my God. I want to see the war. Come on.
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I told you. It's tough to watch, but we have to see this. We can't look away. The next video I want to show you is an ICE raid at a car wash in Orange county that happened on Sunday. This happened in Garden Grove, August 17, 11am it appears they took at least one person. The man that four to five agents detained and brutalized. Listen to the video. You can hear someone upset and crying in the background. If anyone has any more information, please let Veronica Dela Cruz TV know. Please let OC Active know. It's just an honor that we are able to use our platform to try to show the great work of These incredible citizen journalists. Here, play this clip.
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Hey, he's not doing nothing. Hey, he's not doing nothing. He's not doing nothing. Hey, chill out. He's not doing nothing. Hey, leave him alone. Leave him alone. Look at that.
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Now, this next video I want to show you is what happened when a group of Latino family and friends were targeted by ICE over the weekend as they just enjoyed a nice day at a river in Dover, Arkansas. ICE was forced to release everyone after they detained them since they were all documented. This is the racial profiling we see in Arkansas, in California and every state. And people are getting thrown into concentration camps as well. Here, let's play this clip.
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Okay, so he said he's asking everybody, but everybody's just standing over there and he's not sending anybody else. They came directly at us because we're Hispanics and I know they're checking to see if we have papers or not. This is so unfair. Are y' all gonna ask for everybody else? Are y' all just gonna ignore the fact that y' all are racially profiling us? Why is he being it? Why are y' all guys doing that? Why are y' all doing that? Freaking amazing, doing this. Does that make you feel so tough doing this? We provided the right documentation. That is so up. No. Why you thinking. Carlos, Carlos, Carlos, Carlos.
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Now, if you want to see as well what some of these ICE agents, ICE Nazis many are calling them, are doing, take a look at the Mount Pleasant neighborhood in dc. You'll see the ICE agents walking around and just tearing down anti ICE signs. And then the community puts a new one right up. But here, watch as they tear it down. We're taking America back, baby. Esto parameters numerono. Now, here they are. Now you see the sign being put back up right there. And one of the things we see these ICE agents doing, it's all a photo op with real world consequences. And they're just shooting movies. They shoot Al Qaeda ISIS style terrorism movies, except the people being attacked. Well, it's Americans attacking people here in the United States. Take a look at this, the video that they're shooting right here. Here, play this clip. Now, whenever we can amplify local media stories, we try to do that as well on the Midas Touch network. So here are Trump's masked ICE agents attempting to kidnap a family in San Bernardino without identifying themselves. They. They smashed their windows and shot at the car when the family took off. Scared like any person would do if mask thugs rolled up with no IDs. Here, play this.
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Clip now to that story on the shooting involving immigration agents. Tonight we're hearing from one of the people inside that vehicle when it happened.
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There are still a lot of unanswered questions about what led up to this shooting. Eyewitness News reporter Annabel Munoz is in San Bernardino with the latest.
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Martin says he was working with his father in law and 18 year old son in law this morning when their vehicle was suddenly surrounded by unmarked cars and masked men. They hopped out with their pistols already drawn.
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Then they proceeded to ask us to.
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Lower the window and open, open the doors. Martin stressed as they asked. But masked agents did not identify themselves. They stay in the locked car as agents insist they come out. Moments later they shatter two windows once the glasses were shattered. My father in law feared for his life from his perspective and so he.
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He.
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I guess the car was already.
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In drive so he drove the vehicle away from where those agents were at.
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Three gunshots can be heard. Thank God the bullets didn't go through the truck. They just got stuck into the door. But they were aimed at my brother in law who was in the passenger front. The family sought the help of San Bernardino police who arrived at their home. We made a report with them. They told us FBI wasn't going to contact with with us. They say instead it turned into an hours long standoff with several federal agencies showing up at their home. They say this officer seen pulling out a weapon during the vehicle stop is the same person who fired the gunshots.
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He said or that he didn't shoot.
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Sorry that those three shots were him tapping on the glass. But we have bullet holes inside of the vehicle now the Department of Homeland Security released a statement saying in part that during a vehicle stop a subject refused to exit his vehicle and tried to run CBP officers down saying he struck two officers with his vehicle and that one officer had to discharge his firearm in self defense. The video we reviewed does not show the driver trying to run the officers down. The agency did not answer our questions about why the driver was stopped or whether the agents had an administrative or judicial warrant. Community groups are calling for accountability. It seems there to be like a.
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Lot of impunity and this might be again one of the cases where we can bring forward to courts and say.
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This is what's happening right when you.
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Let loose an administration and an agency to just basically create their own rules.
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Want to show you ice detaining a high school soccer star while driving to school. Handcuff and arrest him in front of all the other students. He had just dropped his mom off at work. A routine they followed for years. A member of the first ever state championship win for Toombs County Soccer. That's in Georgia. Here, play this clip right here.
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An 18 year old Toombs County High School student and athlete is now sitting inside of Steward Immigration Detention center after being arrested here in Toombs County. This is where Roberto Istep Caba, a Toombs County High School junior who is known in the community to be a star soccer and cross country athlete. The Toombs county sheriff confirmed to me that on August 8, Kaba was pulled over for running a stop sign outside of the Toombs County High School. Kabba was taken into custody for driving while unlicensed. Federal immigration services were quickly alerted of Kabba's arrest from a system that processes fingerprints at the county jail. Monday, immigration services came and took Kaba to an immigration detention center. The sheriff tells me that there's been an administrative warrant for him for around nine years. I spoke to the Kaba family who says that when they brought their son to the United States from Guatemala, they brought him under asylum. Now they say they are devastated and are holding out hope for Roberto's safe return. Roberto's father and trans leader asked me not to show their faces on camera for their own safety. Like he didn't deserve this. He was almost graduating. He had this year and next year and yeah, he just hopes in a miracle that God can do for us.
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There'S just a better opportunity for him. They come from Guatemala in hopes of a better future because there's so much going on in Guatemala and they came here just to be in better hands. Reporting from Toombs County, I'm Olivia Wright, WTOC News.
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And by the way, the individual's name is Robert Itzep Kaba. This was his second day of school. He's lived in Toombs County, Georgia since he was 4 years old. Now instead of being in class or on the field, Roberto is in jail on an immigration hold and his family has no idea where he will be taken next. He has two sisters, one brother and a new sibling on the way who need him home. The only ones he's ever known. We hope this reaches the right audience. Go check out his GoFundMe. Help bring Roberto home. Now I'll show you this ICE detaining a 2 year old Canadian toddler for 41 days, more than double the legal time allowed. Another 3 year old child was locked up for 4 days in a holding room meant for detention. Under 12 hours. I don't want to die here. I don't want to die here, a 13 year old said and written testimony held for weeks with no access to toys, activities or schooling. We served a family with a nine month old baby who lost 8.82 pounds over a month's time, read another testimonial. These people are being starved to death and killed, are brought to the brink of death in these death facilities like the ones in South Texas here. Play this clip.
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Two Canadian toddlers, both under the age of four have been held in custody by U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement this year. And one of those children was held for 51 days under the age of 4. This is based on new data obtained by the Globe and mail. Nearly 150 Canadians have been detained by ICE officers this year. So 149. That is on pace to double the number of Canadians detained when we look at the entirety of 2024. For, for a closer look at these detention detentions, I'm joined in studio by Katherine Blazebaum with the Globe and Mail. Good morning to you. Morning. You know I have three children. I know what they're like and when they're little, I mean thinking about the fact that these two children are, they're little under the age of 4 years old held in these facilities. Who are these kids? What do we know about them and what do we know about the conditions? I too am a mom of three and it was horrifying reading through details about the facility where they were being held. So what we do know is that these two children were held for weeks. One of them held for more than seven weeks at a facility in South Texas that is at the center of allegations of not providing adequate drinking water. Mothers who can't access formula for their babies, no soap to clean their bottles, children who don't have toys, guards taking, you know, a doll away from a little girl, you know, no access to medical treatment treatment or reduced access to medical treatment. So very challenging circumstances for these families, including these two Canadian children. We do know that both of them have been released. They were detained separately. These are two separate families. We understand based on the data, both detained in May, one released a couple weeks later and then the other one, the data showed that this person and their grown up along with another child were released in May, mid July. Do you know why they were detained? Like what the reason was? What we do know based on the data analysis is that they were detained with what appear to be grown ups. We don't know if they are their mothers but in the case of one of the children, it was a Bolivian mother. In the other, it was a Congolese woman. And it appears that they were picked up for what are known as other immigration violations. So no criminal record, but rather some other immigration violation. And they have been placed into what are described as expedited removal proceedings with a credible fear referral. So they are claiming. What does that mean? Yeah, they are claim. Claiming that if they are sent home that they will. They fear persecution. And now, you know, we don't know what happened to them. We don't know where they are. We are actively trying to find them and, you know, yeah, they're just one of many people who are being held.
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Now. One of the things I want you to know about are the plans that ICE has to build a thousand concentration camps or so across the United States, just like Alligator Alcatraz. That's where our taxpayer money's going. Not to health care or education or making housing more affordable. Trying to build A thousand concentrate 1000 concentration camps across the country, obviously trying to help the private prison system. Friends of Trump and Republican governors make a lot of money. Let me take you to Alabama right now where the verdict is in the state's immigration proceedings. There has a lot of American workers and people really pissed off here. Play this clip.
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They're putting out things backwards. In my area experience I've had, they ain't too good at what they do. Keith said Smith says most immigration workers left after the law took effect. So this potato farmer hired Americans. Problem is, he says most show up late, work slower, and are ready to head home after lunch. Some even quit after just one day out in the field. There's a Hispanic man that works for us, and I say, you know, he's 52 and he'll make anywhere from 70.
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I said, if you can keep up with him and do a good job, you can, like, but they just. They're not physically in shape to do.
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It and, you know, probably not mentally.
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Tough enough to do it. Some of them over on this tomato farm, the story's not much different. Brent Smith may be the only exception.
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The bending over, and if you're not used to working and kneeling down and bending over and constantly up and down.
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All day long is the grueling part of it. It really is. I mean, other than that, it's not.
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Any harder than anything else you can do.
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With a 9.9 unemployment rate, Alabama is almost 1% higher than the national average. Tomato farmers say skilled workers can make anywhere from two to three hundred dollars a day. But unskilled workers make much less. And farmers say many Americans are not physically fit and simply don't work fast enough.
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It's going to take body conditioning, mental conditioning in order to earn enough money to make it worth a day's work. Now this is in Van Nuys, California, where you have Trump's Gestapo flashing white power hand gestures. This is what it looks like in the streets right now. Let's play it.
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How does it feel being a Nazi? We don't want you here. Get the. Are you doing P. Are you doing. You are terrorizing our community. Do you feel happy about being the Gestapo? Do you feel. Get back right now. Happy about being a Gestapo? Do you feel happy about being a sapo? How do you feel being a Nazi? How do you feel being a Nazi? Do you guys feel proud being Nazis? Do you feel proud being Nazi? Do you feel proud being a Nazi? Do you feel proud terrorizing communities?
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And you see right here, you know what's, what's the point of this all just cruelty for cruelty sake. And here is in Washington D.C. what it looks like now, what it looks like today with the National Guard there who now walk around with. They are allowed to walk around with weapons and point weapons at people. And here, play this, clip.
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Ice break a man's window and then.
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Drag him out the car while I was waiting for the bus.
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So I was walking to the bus stop, and I saw a car being.
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Surrounded by a bunch of other cars.
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The cars, they were just like regular.
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Cars that you would see in the street with agents that have hsi, dea.
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FBI, I'm pretty sure. Hey, ma', am, do you speak English? Okay, I'm gonna break this window.
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And then one of the officers pulled.
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Out a weapon and pointed at the man in passenger seat.
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Then broke the window and down to the sidewalk and.
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Then pin them down for us. You guys do this to me in front of my kids. And it was like a really emotional scene afterwards.
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They just broke the window. They just broke the window.
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His window.
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The police, they just. I think they're trying to deport him.
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Yeah, I'm.
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I'm going to study right now. And these guys are. Jeez, Jesus.
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They just took. In front of his own.
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In front of his kids.
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In front of his kids. No, no height, no hype.
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These people.
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No hi. No hype. And after that, I still went on.
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The bus, had my exam the next day. Right. I still had to study for it.
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It just, like, hurts me because, like, those are people who are my community.
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Even weirder to think your family's life could be disrupted by just that one moment, like an officer detaining you, detaining your uncle, father, or anybody. In your family. Great work. Great work there by ProPublica. I always support ProPublica. I love the work they're doing. Anyway, everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers and please share this video now with as many people as you can. Subscribe to MidAsPlus.com Become a member of our YouTube channel as well. Thank you so much. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas plus substack for ad. Free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now@midasplus.com.
Episode: Trump’s Plan Caught on Film as Hell Breaks Loose
Date: August 18, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
This urgent episode dives into exclusive, harrowing video evidence of what the hosts call “Trump’s Gestapo” – ICE raids and aggressive immigration enforcement activities under the Trump administration. The Meiselas brothers document a series of shocking incidents across the country, highlighting the growing normalization of paramilitary tactics, racial profiling, and cruelty, and calling on listeners to break the media blackout by sharing these stories. The tone is raw, impassioned, and relentless in warning about the broader implications for American democracy.
A. Norwalk, Connecticut (South Norwalk) – Violent ICE Arrest
B. Garden Grove, California – Car Wash Raid
C. Dover, Arkansas – Racial Profiling at a River
D. D.C. and San Bernardino – ICE Targeting, Photo Ops, and Violence
A. Georgia – Star Athlete Detained
B. Detention of Toddlers and Infants
The Meiselas brothers close by urging their audience to subscribe, share these stories, and amplify the work of independent citizen journalism. Ben thanks ProPublica and local media who continue to report in the face of a national media blackout, exhorting listeners:
“We can't look away… Please, please, please, do me this favor. Share this video again with as many people as you know.” (01:34)
The podcast finishes with a powerful sense of urgency, aiming to rally listeners into action to resist the normalization of what the hosts call “state-sponsored terror.”
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