ICE’s Heavy-handed Idaho Raid: 105 Arrested in a Display of Everything Wrong With Trump’s America

October 19, 2025 – Another Day, Another Government Overreach

Let’s talk about ICE racking up 105 arrests at a racetrack in Wilder, Idaho. It’s the kind of flex we’ve come to “expect” under Trump’s comeback tour—a tone-deaf, chest-thumping display of what happens when you mix MAGA politics, unchecked agencies, and a total disregard for families, kids, and basic damn decency.

No, this isn’t satire. This happened.

“We Protect Americans” – Unless You Actually Are One

The feds stormed in with 200+ officers, helicopters, drones, zip-ties for the adults—AND the kids. The scene: La Catedral Arena. You could practically hear the MAGA crowd cheering from their recliners. ICE claims they were just there for “illegal aliens” (yeah, because criminalizing human existence is their specialty), but let’s cut the crap: they detained everyone in sight, including children. People wound up zip-tied and corralled. Why? All in the name of fighting “illegal gambling and animal fighting.”

Reminder: Not a single child ended up in ICE custody, but plenty were traumatized in the chaos. Trauma doesn’t vanish just because your ICE handlers say they let the kids go afterwards.

Military-Style Raids: Overkill, Pure and Simple

Thanks to the Trump regime (because, let’s be real, that’s who’s responsible), Idaho law enforcement and ICE rolled up like they were taking down international terrorists. Military gear, rubber bullets, the whole fascist starter pack.

Let’s just acknowledge: If they can do this in wild-ass Wilder, Idaho to families who did nothing but watch a horse race, what’s next? Church bake sales? Tailgate parties where someone’s cousin looks “a little too brown”?

Who Are the Real Criminals Here?

Let’s check some facts: Yes, animal abuse, drug trafficking, cartel money—no one wants that. But if you think 105 people at a racetrack were all Pablo Escobar’s second cousins, you’re buying propaganda. The vast majority were swept up purely because of where they were standing when the Feds stormed the gates.

Idaho’s Republican leadership, as usual, did nothing but praise federal jackboot tactics. Idaho Gov. Brad Little, still happy to wet-nurse Trump’s anti-immigrant priorities, bragged about “supporting” ICE. Translation: “We helped ICE traumatize Idaho families because Trump might give me a shiny sticker.”

The Cruelty Is the Point (Again)

Don’t take my “biased” word for it—take the ACLU’s:
“The government came in full force, military-style, helicopters, drones and arrested and handcuffed, everyone … including children.” – Leo Morales, ACLU of Idaho.

It’s 2025 and we’re still here: splitting kids from parents, scaring the life out of mixed-status families, and giving marching orders to ICE like they’re a stormtrooper cosplay club. The number of actual people facing criminal charges? Less than the number swept up and traumatized.

Let’s Call This Out: It’s Not About Safety

This is about Trump, MAGA, and today’s Republican “values”—weaponizing fear, not justice. When some folks wring their hands about “order,” remember this: The overwhelming majority of people rounded up were guilty of nothing but being at the wrong place when militarized cops crashed the party.

If we don’t push back, this will keep happening—at the border, in towns like Wilder, maybe right in your own neighborhood next. That’s not America. That’s a dystopian fever dream cooked up by people who want to keep us all divided and scared.

Want the Receipts?

Here’s where you see who’s actually telling the truth (every link opens in a new tab and doesn’t feed the surveillance state, thank me later):

• East Idaho News — Reporting from the ground
• Idaho Capital Sun — ICE Numbers & Statements
• Idaho Capital Sun — Advocate Outrage and Firsthand Accounts
• East Idaho News — Children Detained Report
• Mixed-Status Families & the Fallout
• ICE & Idaho’s Dangerous Partnership
• ACLU – How ICE Raids Terrorize Families
• Human Rights Watch – Due Process Violations in ICE Raids
• Migration Policy Institute – ICE Raids and Politics
• NBC News — ICE Uses Aggressive, Military-Style Tactics

Final Thought: Idaho Isn’t a Battlefield. Time to Start Acting Like We Care About People, Not Just “Order.”

If ICE can terrorize families with little to no repercussions, fueled by MAGA’s cruelty-first doctrine, what hope does anyone have for fairness or justice? Every day we let this happen is another day the dream of a decent, humane, inclusive America dies a little more.

Go look at the evidence yourself. Get mad. Then, do something about it.