Trump’s ICE jacks up weapons spending by 700%–including ‘guided missile warheads’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-weapons
Trump’s ICE jacks up weapons spending by 700%–including ‘guided missile warheads’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-weapons
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Niiiice. Keep it up. I’m sure continuous escalation will endear yourselves to the public.
Straight up Immigration and Customs does NOT need guided missiles. They look just like a rogue agency.
But there’s no money for healthcare. Got it.
ICE does not need guided missiles or firearms, that is not what the agency was created to do.
It strikes me as Trump never getting out of the 80s.
This sounds very illegal. Insurrection in progress.
The call is coming from inside the (White) House.
Still waiting on the Libertarian/2A outrage. Oh wait, they’re the ones signing up to be part of the Gestapo
Why does ICE need “guided missile warheads?” They’re clearly just shifting money around trying to hide the reality of our horrible economy…
Maybe the next Kent State will have hundreds of victims, with these guys in charge… smh
ICE won’t go away after Trump is gone or if Dems eventually take over. They keep all their toys and keep doing what they are doing. we are currently funding the future insurrection forces.
Again—If ANY Democrat POTUS did this, the media and national outrage would be non-stop 24/7. Only Trump and MAGATs get away with this.
Further evidence that ICE isn’t being ramped up for the sake of enforcing immigration laws. trump is at war with the United States and ICE is his schutzstaffel.
It’s the SS. It’s literally a wannabe dictator’s personal army.
Trump could grow a Hitler mustache and open Auschwitz 2.0 and there would still be people claiming he’s not trying to be a dictator. The worst are the people on the left claiming we shouldn’t be fighting back and to just wait.
It’s going to take Trump canceling elections for people to finally realize, and even then plenty won’t care. I can’t decide if it’d be better to stop Trump now or let the collapse happen in the hopes that we pull a Germany and rebuild into something much better.
The job of ICE is to go after people guilty of a misdemeanor at best. The felons have better equipped police to go after them.
These rogue jackboots have zero need for these but are waging war on America and getting equipped better than Ukraine
“A **paramilitary** is a force or unit that functions and is organized in a manner analogous to a military force, but does not have professional or legitimate status.”
Paramilitaries are a component of fascism.
Literally the SS
ICE used to spend about $8B on small arms and now it’s already $71B this year and they are only ever really seen shooting those pepper balls and that’s mostly at reporters it seems. ICE gets a much larger budget than the US Marines and now they are have guided missiles…. The proud boys are getting all the toys it seems.
*edit, clearly they made an error and those Billions are Millions.
* A new investigation from **Popular Information** (Judd Legum) says that, based on Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) records, ICE’s 2025 weapons spending jumped ~700% and includes purchases categorized under **PSC 1336: “Guided Missile Warheads and Explosive Components.”** The piece cites specific vendors and dates. [popular.info](https://popular.info/p/ice-boosts-weapons-spending-700)
* Multiple outlets are repeating that finding and attributing it to Popular Information (i.e., they’re not independent confirmations): Common Dreams, San Antonio Current, and The New Civil Rights Movement.
What that wording means (important nuance):
* **“Guided Missile Warheads and Explosive Components” is an official federal Product/Service Code (PSC 1336)** used in FPDS to label contract actions. It’s defined in the government’s PSC Manual and related references; it **does not, by itself, prove ICE bought complete missiles**, but it does mean an ICE-recorded purchase was coded in that missile-warhead category (which includes some items with military chemical agents). PSC coding can be broad or occasionally miscoded. [Source](https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/manual/PSC%20Manual%20April%202025.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
Tldr; The specific “guided missile warheads” phrasing is the exact name of the PSC category attached to one or more ICE purchases in FPDS. That **doesn’t confirm ICE acquired operational guided missiles**, but it indicates ICE recorded spend in that munitions category.
People are struggling but we have to pay for some racists playing Barbie Doll with weapons.
Okay, If the response to nationwide peaceful protests is to arm the Gestapo with fucking missiles, we’re past talking this out. He needs removed from power yesterday. This is a tyrant.
All of this stuff is to hurt other Americans. Insane.
Boy do I hope the real police and military protect us and the constitution from Trump’s and Stephen Miller’s secret police
MAGA is the modern NAZI movement. There are so many similarities to what they are doing to what Hitler did and other infamous dictators and authoritarians in the past century, that it should be absolutely chilling to all Americans. We are way past hyperbole and over dramatization.
Ice is an enemy of America they are an occupying force at this point.
Remember how Democrats vastly increased IRS spending to go after tax cheats and republicans and Fox News screamed that Biden was building an army of 80,000 armed IRS agents?
Accusation is a confession, etc etc.
Ice and Trump are straight up planning on killing citizens
Yup they are becoming a paramilitary force.
ICE is chartered to enforce civil law, not criminal law. Civil law is things like failure to pay taxes, or overstaying on a visa, or failure to pay import taxes. Paperwork stuff. There is no need for lethal force in enforcing civil laws.
Criminal law enforcement personnel do occasionally need to use lethal force, but only when the suspect poses a direct threat.
Guided missiles are used to kill people and destroy material at stand-off distances. This is never necessary in domestic law enforcement of any kind.
So WTF does ICE plan to use guided missiles for? Whatever it is, it isn’t a legal use of force.
Yes. Going to need those when firing them at civilians
These are not the actions of an administration planning on peacefully relinquishing power.
Brownshirts
We will be paying for the bombs he uses on us.
This is Federally sponsored domestic terrorism. They are at war with citizens, and attacking “non-citizens” is a test run. They’ll start going after registered democrats soon.
Just a heads up that the linked article said $8.4 billion was spent annually during Trump’s first term. Looking at the original source, I think that’s supposed to read $8.4 million.
I am not criticizing the overall assessment in the article. This is super concerning stuff. I was just personally really confused when the article said the ~$70 million dwarfed the $8.4 billion previously spent and wanted to highlight the typo for anyone else reading the article.
The fact that this is so obscene and unnecessary tells me that there may be some sort of money laundering going on here
When the time comes, the Nuremberg defense should not apply to anyone in ICE.
Get ready for ICE to use a Javelin warhead on a Toyota pickup parked in front of Home Depot.
I’m just trying to buy a house man, what are we doing
Why on earth would customs and immigration need guided missles?
This sounds like what I expected. The military is refusing to storm the cities here in the US, and the no kings protest are proof that trump is highly unpopular.
He is losing power fast, and now the only agencies that will support him are gearing up for war. 2026 is about to be wild.
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