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Ben Bergquam was with Ice agents during a raid on Sunday and yelled at protesters that they were ‘the enemy within’

A rightwing influencer accompanied officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Chicago on Sunday as the agency ramps up arrests in the city. Ice agents arrested four people on the city’s south-west side.

Ben Bergquam, the rightwing internet personality, was with agents, filming and making content as well as getting into altercations with local residents along the way, according to a video the Guardian viewed on X. In the video, he appears to be in the car with Ice agents and nearby as they arrest people; later on he yells at a group of Chicagoans who are gathered to prevent Ice operations that they are “the enemy within”.

Bergquam often travels to migrant shelters and protests, and has even filmed an Ice raid in Chicago previously to prove wrongdoing by those opposed to Donald Trump and his agenda. In a 2024 video he falsely claimed that Hurricane Helene victims wouldn’t be helped out financially because the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), spent all its money housing migrants in Chicago.

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[–] Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Articles like this one really should start including these peoples home addresses

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just seeing the picture, this guy looks like a cunt. Unfortunstely (for the ligibitiqua), I'm also pretty sure he's in the closet :(

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't see how this evil shithead's sexuality is more unfortunate for them than every other person who has the misfortune of being on the same planet as shithead. Like, if he is gay, it's not like that would say anything about gay people in general.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean I get the feeling. As a dog owner seeing dog poop on the ground gets me even more annoyed because its a health hazard to my dog but also because it makes my people look bad.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah but if someone is hiding that they're a dog owner and behaving poorly you likely don't. Like, Lindsay Graham is an argument for queer liberation not against because the closet has clearly broken that person.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, when so many Republicans are so obviously closeted, it starts looking like a trend, not just a couple outliers. I'm not too worried about potential generalizations, mostly because that's more a conservative thing, and they have such atrocious gaydar that they can't tell unless a man is wearing a dress or a croptop.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 5 points 3 months ago

Anyone with a MAGA hat looks like a cunt.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yes if what you're doing for the government is moral and just, why do you have any problem clearly identifying yourself?

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The other day I saw an older man wearing a MAGA hat riding around in the back of a convertible. Interestingly enough, I live in Canada.

It's times like those that make me fantasize about having some kind of stealth paintball shooter or mustard launcher on the side of my vehicle.

[–] FatCrab@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Water balloons of raccoon piss. It's extremely pungent and effective at chasing away rats.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

How are you... Collecting that?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Should be easy to get too, just visit Toronto after dark. Little King Trash Mouth and his gang rove around in troves

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

I saw an old man at Aldi wearing a magat hat and I stopped what I was doing and just stared at him until he left. I enjoyed the fear he was feeling.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 14 points 3 months ago

Of course they are "the enemy within. Oh, wait, he meant the crowd? Funny because the right has claimed that title .

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I expect to see him at Nuremberg 2.0

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unlikely. A sad fact about the Nuremberg trials was that fewer than 200 people were tried. Most of the rank-and-file Nazis weren't punished for their atrocities.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

We have better record keeping now though

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

So, given current events... I take that he's marking himself?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

No no, we need more of this. More insight into who they are, what they're doing, and where they're going. It makes it much, much easier to identify and fight them when you have someone leaking everything from the inside.