White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller took a moment to acknowledge the hard work of ICE agents this holiday season, including a small deportation drive on Christmas Eve.
Miller shared a video that allegedly shows agents making an arrest in Lewiston, Maine. The video shows a man described as an “Angola suspect” refusing to provide documentation to authorities.
Another man filming the altercation notes that the suspect is a pastor. To which the ICE agent responds, “Being a pastor does not give you legal status.”
“Show us your immigration documents, we have no problem,” the agent says. “We would check you and let you go. Unless you’re going to show us anything.”
As a result, the man was detained. The date of enforcement action is December 24.
“ICE never sleeps,” Miller wrote on X.
ICE never sleeps. https://t.co/cg9tWHuRj9
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 25, 2025
Justice has triumphed: 17 thousand illegal foreigners were arrested under the new law
Even though they never sleep, it's clear that ICE agents still need to be on their toes. Just ten minutes later in the post, Miller shares a story about ICE agents who were nearly hit by an illegal alien trying to escape.
Tiago Alexandre Souza-Martins, a Portuguese citizen identified as an illegal immigrant by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was approached in his van in suburban Maryland. Souza-Martins had a passenger who was also found to be an illegal immigrant from El Salvador.
After agents ordered him to turn off the vehicle, the man instead “discharged a weapon in his vehicle and began ramming his van into multiple ICE vehicles,” according to the DHS statement. sent to X.
“He then drove his van directly at the ICE officers in an attempt to run them over,” they added.
“Vehicle attacks on ICE officers are domestic terrorism,” Miller said.
Vehicle attacks on ICE officers are domestic terrorism. https://t.co/JqONu1AV5t
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 25, 2025
Agents opened fire on Souza-Martins as he attempted to take them down, striking him and causing him to crash the vehicle. Both foreigners were treated and taken to a local hospital, where they are in stable condition and expected to recover.
“Fortunately, no ICE officers were seriously injured,” DHS wrote, noting that the left’s “extremist rhetoric” only encourages “illegal aliens and violent agitators to actively resist ICE” and “will only lead to more violent incidents.”
Today, @ICEgov officers were conducting a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Agents positively identified the driver of the van as Thiago Alexandre Souza-Martins, an undocumented immigrant from Portugal. Solomon Antonio was in the passenger seat… pic.twitter.com/M8tdlK39vx
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 24, 2025
Having just noted that an illegal alien tried to mow down ICE agents in an act of domestic terrorism, read CNN headlinewhich begins with these six words: “ICE agents shot and killed an undocumented man.”
Guy from Maryland, huh, CNN?
Such images excite people with low IQs, whom they call viewers. Sickening.
Meanwhile, under the recently passed Laken Riley Act – the first law signed by President Trump during his second term –more than 17,500 illegal immigrants were arrested in 2025 for crimes that carry mandatory detention.
Thousands of criminal aliens have been removed from the streets of the United States. A Christmas gift to the American people.
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