Tom Steyers Latest Incendiary ICE Proposal and

The California gubernatorial race just obtained a entire lot more chaotic with the departure of one of the frontrunners, disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14). A stunning early beneficiary is billionaire former hedge fund supervisor and failed Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Tom Steyer, who is operating despite the fact that he would be the first to let you know he hasn’t actually been paying consideration to what’s going on in the state.

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BREAKING: Eric Swalwell’s Resignation Is Official, Effective Immediately – Here’s What’s Next

He’s already shot up to the top in early polls taken after Swalwell’s gorgeous fall from grace. He was fast to pounce, issuing a Substack and an X article Tuesday that show he’s manner additional on the market than some of us realized. 

He doesn’t just need to refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as so many blue state politicians do because they love unlawful immigrants — he needs to jail brokers and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel.

It’s like he’s brazenly calling for an rebellion. You don’t have to consider me, he’ll let you know himself in his article titled:

How California Can Put ICE in Jail

Fox News’ Bill Melugin posted about some of the unimaginable particulars:

NEW: CA gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (D) releases an immigration platform that is radically left of Gov. Newsom. It consists of:

– Abolish ICE
– Put ICE brokers in jail & “treat them like the mob”.
– Bring those “kidnapped & detained by ICE back home.”
– Give CA AG energy to… https://t.co/XqM8eK7Hhf

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 14, 2026

Steyer apparently needs to see California officers arresting and jailing federal law enforcement. Assuming Trump would still be in workplace when this went down, there may be no probability in Hades that he would stand for that, and issues may go south fast. 

Melugin’s post continues:

– Give CA AG energy to imprison ICE brokers & their management.

– Taxpayer funded legal illustration & assist for unlawful aliens.

– Ignore a SCOTUS ruling that permits ICE to make the most of to use race, language, job, and location to contribute to “reasonable suspicion” for immigration arrests, and instead, “California should take matters into our own hands and extend legal protections to its residents, despite the federal governments failure.”

“This is about our right as a state to protect our residents,” Steyer says.

I read the remaining of Steyer’s assertion so you don’t have to. To me, it seems like an open call to violence against the federal authorities, an exhortation to “take to the streets,” to ignore SCOTUS, and to start what would quantity to a civil conflict:

I’ve made it clear: ICE must be abolished. ICE is appearing like a felony group, finishing up indiscriminate racial profiling and utilizing violence, intimidation, terrorism, and the homicide of Americans to lengthen Trump’s rule by concern.

It’s not enough for Democrats to merely have interaction in rhetoric, and “stand” against ICE or Trump. California must construct a system that fights fire with fire. To stop this authoritarian takeover, we must counter ICE head-on, and go after both their brokers on the streets and their management within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Is California going to “go after” our constitutionally offered for federal authorities and use Golden State taxpayers’ money to have interaction in hostilities with lawful companies implementing guidelines enacted by our democratically elected congressmen? What world are we dwelling in?

We’ve seen a lot of loopy rhetoric from the likes of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), and their ilk, but this appears to me to be taking issues to a new — and very harmful — stage.

Steyer goes on to record a collection of anti-ICE measures he would enact, including bringing deportees back, if you may consider that. They’re all in a equally incendiary vein, but his conclusion ought to provide the shudders.

We’ll let ICE know: in California, you obey our legal guidelines and respect our residents, or you go to jail.

I’ve always thought of Steyer considerably of a bore, but my opinion has modified — now, he comes across as some kind of Antifa maniac. 

Editor’s Note: Democrats are fanning the flames and raising the rhetoric by evaluating ICE to the Gestapo, fascists, and secret police.

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