No Mercy / No Malice: ICE Age

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**Scott Galloway** (1:32)
This week, we're re-airing a post originally published in July of 2025 The conversation around AI and the labor market has shifted since then. Sadly, the rest remains relevant. As we wrote this last year, Donald Trump is building an American mass police force. Ice killings, inhumane detention centers, and a lawless mass deportation campaign reflect we're not on a slippery slope. We're in a vertical drop.
I think these developments have been incredibly depressing. However, I have been encouraged by the everyday Americans standing up to these forces. If that's you, thank you. Keep going.
If you're ready to get off the sidelines, welcome to the resistance.

**Scott Galloway** (2:20)
President Trump is no longer fighting inflation, China, or AI. Instead, he's declared war on a manufactured threat, the enemy within, immigrants, journalists, and professors. Our biggest threat apparently isn't Russian aggression or economic inequality. It's your uber driver or anthropology professor. This is not only cruel and depraved, but stupid. As the chill being cast across the agriculture, services, and construction sectors will likely be more inflationary than the tariffs. More stupidity. Trump's goal is to deport four million undocumented people over four years. That's about 3% of the US workforce. 10 to 15% in several sectors depended on immigrant labor. The big beautiful bill signed into law on July 4th isn't about border security. It's a blueprint for mass detention and deportation. A $75 billion hammer in search of a scapegoat. Under the law, ICE gets funding that rivals the military budgets of Italy or Israel to build sites like the facility in the Everglades, nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz. The goal? Fear.
This isn't law enforcement. It's authoritarian cosplay designed to scare the electorate and silence dissent. Trump's war doesn't punish behavior but identity, as immigrants from certain countries and ethnicities are targeted. Federal agents in full tactical gear swept through a park in Latino-heavy LA this week just to make a point. The mayor said, It's the way a city looks before a coup.
Question. What do stormtroopers, the KKK and ICE have in common?
A mask. ICE has become Trump's personal praetorian guard. Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, Vice President Harris' running mate, was excoriated for comparing ICE to the Gestapo. But spare us the bullshit indignation. Masked agents in fatigues, raiding churches and schools, separating families, is not modern America, but 1930s Europe. Or is it? In the 2026 fiscal year, ICE will receive over 11 billion dollars, a 10 percent increase from current funding. The new law will more than double that. It authorizes the hiring of 10,000 agents, bringing ICE's force to nearly 30,000.
In 1944, Nazi Germany had 32,000 Gestapo officers and 2 billion dollars, inflation-adjusted, in funding. They were fighting a world war. Trump is fighting home health aids and Uber drivers.
ICE claims it's targeting the worst of the worst. But fewer than one third of the record 59,000 immigrant detainees have been convicted of any crime. The rest? A. Immigrants who didn't look like the typical Iowa voter.
Trump's reach even extends to his political rivals. He publicly questioned the citizenship of NYC mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani and his former first friend, Elon. Mamdani has been a US citizen since 2018 Doesn't matter. Criminal now also means not for Trump.