{"id":452883,"date":"2025-12-17T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452883\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:07:13","slug":"former-snl-star-leslie-jones-wants-democrats-to-jail-ice-agents-if-they-take-back-congress-after-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452883\/","title":{"rendered":"Former &#8216;SNL&#8217; star Leslie Jones wants Democrats to jail ICE agents if they take back Congress after midterm elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/31\/entertainment\/snl-star-leslie-jones-details-encounter-with-director-at-snl-50-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d cast member Leslie Jones<\/a> on Monday called for Democrats to arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers if they take back Congress after the midterm elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know. It just feels like the upside down world,\u201d Jones told MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace on her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XF0l2ER-wz4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe Best People\u201d podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see somebody that\u2019s doing something completely terrible, like some of these influencers, these crazy folks, and we let them go because freedom of speech, of course, but there should be accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike gravity,\u201d Wallace said, \u201cthings should fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t continue to keep doing some wrong, you know, and you\u2019re not gonna pay for that,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Wallace how this era ends, Jones offered an ideal scenario that she says would occur if Democrats win the midterms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping, this is what I\u2019m hoping, that midterms, people come out and vote like crazy to switch it over, and then the reckoning comes,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-SNL star Leslie Jones called for Democrats to arrest ICE officers if they take back Congress after the midterm elections. NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Jones told host Nicolle Wallace that she wants a \u201creckoning.\u201d The Best People<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol officers make arrests in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 3, 2025.  OLGA FEDOROVA\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I want, all, everybody that work for ICE, I want them in jail. I just want a reckoning. I want a reckoning. Y\u2019all know\u00a0y\u2019all did wrong stuff. You know some of the stuff you did was so wrong. I need a reckoning. Because that\u2019s, to me, that\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s gonna make it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital\u00a0reached out to ICE and did not receive an immediate response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d cast member Leslie Jones on Monday called for Democrats to arrest Immigration and Customs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":452884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,5410,16090,1933,173,67,132,68,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-452883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ice","10":"tag-illegal-immigrants","11":"tag-snl","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115734121945451063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}