Video: Leftists swarm ICE headquarters whining about deportation of pro-Hamas radicals

A motley crew of leftists descended on the nation’s capital on Saturday. Blaze Media national correspondent
Julio Rosas was on the scene, capturing some of the less inhibited among the activists resort to their apparent default: dehumanizing rhetoric.

As part of a
nationwide “Hands Off!” protest, some radicals ambled to the National Mall to express their displeasure with President Donald Trump and his popular agenda.

While uniformly anti-Trump, there was a variety of grievances expressed by the cacophonic mob even though the organizers made clear that they had three reasons for mobilization. The reasons were: to stop Trump and Elon Musk’s imagined “illegal power grab”; to condemn the administration and congressional Republicans for supposedly “gutting services, raising prices, and racing towards slashing Medicaid, Social Security, and more”; and to clutch pearls about the administration’s supposed pursuit of “destruction for the benefit of their billionaire allies.”

Of course, numerous protesters veered off message, dusted off the slogans of yesteryear, and championed the causes of Black Lives Matter, gender ideology, and an unaccountable federal bureaucracy.

Other radicals farther afield donned keffiyehs and swarmed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Potomac Center Plaza as part of the separate “April 5 March on Washington.”

Those in this second camp, which Rosas tracked over the course of the day, protested the Trump administration’s foreign policy as well as its enforcement of federal immigration law; demonized ICE agents; condemned the deportation of
pro-Hamas radicals, including Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk; criticized Israel; and reaffirmed their “commitment to the liberation of Palestine.”

The groups that ultimately swarmed the ICE headquarters included the Palestinian Feminist Collective, the climate alarmist group Planet Over Profit, and the local chapters of the
George Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine — a group endorsed last year by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Gaza-based terrorist group that combines Marxist-Leninist ideology with Arab nationalism.

Outside the ICE offices, protesters demanded the release of Mahmoud Khalil and other pro-Hamas international students facing deportation.

Khalil, a Syrian-born activist leader who previously attended Columbia University,
allegedly hid his former employment with a Hamas-tied UN agency when filing his green card application.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio
said in reference to Khalil’s arrest last month, “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”

Activists also called for a moratorium on ICE removal operations.

Prior to raging impotently outside the ICE offices, various activists made speeches.

‘There is only one solution: antifada, revolution.’

Linda Sarsour — the Palestinian-American activist whose radicalism
proved too much even for the Biden administration which disavowed her — told the mob standing near an “abolish Israel” sign that “we are all adversaries to U.S. foreign policy” and that the radical mob was “the moral consistency of America.”

One speaker honored Palestinian “martyrs” killed during the Hamas-Israeli war without distinguishing between civilians and terrorists.

Another tethered Palestinian activism to the broader socialist cause, indicating that capitalism is at fault.

Muna Qadan of the Palestinian Feminist Collective threatened a “new world order” and the “vengeance of the oppressed” and stated that “there is only one solution: antifada, revolution.”

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