‘This was bananas’: Rachel Maddow floored by ICE raid gone ‘horribly wrong'
Erik De La Garza
June 2, 2025 10:02PM ET
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow unloaded on Trump-era immigration agents while blasting what she described as a bungled and militarized ICE raid in San Diego that left the community stunned.
“This was bananas,” Maddow said during the opening minutes of her show Monday night. According to the MSNBC host, "multiple clown cars" of agents in “full battle rattle with helmets and long guns and flak jackets and goggles and masks” stormed a San Diego restaurant on Friday.
“Looking like they were going to rappel out of helicopters into the Tora Bora cave complex to fight al-Qaeda,” Maddow told viewers. “These guys, dressed like this, run into a neighborhood Italian restaurant and reportedly handcuffed the entire crew working at the restaurant, everybody inside.”
She said the raid ended with busboys and waiters arrested while stunned neighbors demanded answers.
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“Unsurprisingly, the whole neighborhood came out to say, ‘What the heck are you doing? Is this 'Red Dawn?' Are we being invaded? Wolverines! This is what you're doing to save us from the terrible menace of, like, the nice waiter at our favorite local restaurant?’”
“Trump's immigration agents had had no idea what to do,” she added. Maddow concluded that the display in San Diego was “a show of weakness and cluelessness," and that the raid went "horribly wrong because this federal agency is clearly totally untrained for this work and is clearly out of its depth."
“Ultimately, these Trump immigration agents dressed up like soldiers, they made this San Diego street corner look like they were in a war zone because they were so completely unprepared and untrained and flummoxed by all of the neighbors and passersby, understandably yelling at them and telling them to leave people alone,” Maddow said. “They were so scared and so unprepared and so untrained for this completely predictable situation, that they set off multiple what appeared to be these flashbang smoke grenades against the random neighbors in San Diego, against the people on the street who were outraged by what they had done, who were demanding that they identify themselves for one, and that for two, they get out.”
She added of Trump's nationwide immigration crackdown: "Everyone in America hates it. Everyone hates what they're doing.
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