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Rep. Goldman to ICE director: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist, stop acting like one.”

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 10, 2026
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Paul Goyette from Chicago, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime or a secret police, then stop acting like one.”

That was Rep. Dan Goldman’s advice to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons at a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday. Lyons had opened by objecting to people labeling his agents “the Gestapo” and…

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