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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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.