A Rhode Island lawmaker who beforehand referred to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as “Nazi Gestapo thugs” stated “your day of reckoning will come mom——” in a charged social media publish aimed on the company tasked with finishing up the Trump administration’s crackdown on unlawful immigration.
State Rep. Enrique Sanchez, a Democrat, directed his anger at ICE in a publish Wednesday on X decrying its enforcement ways.
“Preventing and coping with ICE since final yr has f—– me up within the head after making an attempt to guard and defend a whole bunch and a whole bunch of our group members in Windfall and throughout Rhode Island. Your day of reckoning will come mom——,” he wrote. “I swear to god.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out for remark to Sanchez, ICE and the Division of Homeland Safety, together with the Rhode Island Democratic Social gathering.
Allyn Meyers, chair for the Rhode Island GOP, advised Fox Information Digital that the get together condemns Sanchez’s remarks.
“Sanchez’s inflammatory rhetoric, together with his specific vow of a ‘day of reckoning, is reckless and harmful.
“We should always remember that ICE brokers have been focused for assassination and violence merely for doing their jobs and imposing our nation’s legal guidelines,” stated Meyers. “Rhetoric like this does nothing to guard communities; it places the lives of devoted legislation enforcement officers at larger threat. Republicans respect and stand with the women and men of legislation enforcement who maintain our state and nation secure.”
Meyers famous that leaders are “presupposed to convey folks collectively and construct bridges” earlier than calling on Sanchez to retract his “inflammatory assertion.”
DHS says Sanchez ought to be grateful to ICE for eradicating criminals from the streets.
“State Rep. Enrique Sanchez ought to be thanking our legislation enforcement for eradicating these harmful criminals from his state—NOT vilifying legislation enforcement,” stated a spokesperson for the company.
“Assaults and demonization of ICE legislation enforcement are unsuitable. Due to smears like this our ICE officers are actually going through a 1,300% improve in assaults towards them as they put their lives on the road to arrest murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists. ICE legislation enforcement is arresting criminals and saving numerous American lives,” the spokesperson continued.
DHS additionally supplied some names and felony unlawful aliens who ICE has taken off Rhode Island’s streets. They embrace:
- Phet Phommasinh, a felony unlawful alien from Laos convicted of murder, assault, and aggravated assault with a weapon.
- Mariel Valdez Nunez, a felony unlawful alien from the Dominican Republic convicted of human slavery or trafficking.
- Milton Estrada Hernandez, a felony unlawful alien from El Salvador convicted of human slavery or trafficking.
- Touthtou Sengsavang, a felony unlawful alien from Laos convicted of failure to register as a intercourse offender, molestation of minor, promoting cocaine and intercourse offense towards child-fondling.
- Vanna Nhem, a felony unlawful alien from Cambodia convicted of rape with strongarm and theft.
Sanchez, who was elected to the state Home of Representatives in 2022, works as a case supervisor serving to unlawful immigrants, in response to his biography on the state Home web site.
The Democratic lawmaker has issued harsh criticism of ICE earlier than. In August 2025, he known as ICE officers “Nazi Gestapo thugs” who he stated “kidnapped one other of our neighbors” in Windfall.
“The ICE thugs broken a pair automobiles that belonged to residents as effectively. They assume they’re above the legislation,” he wrote on X on the time.
Two weeks later, he stated ICE was “terrorizing” communities earlier than calling for “a day of reckoning and no going again.”
Extra just lately, Sanchez lambasted the “Nazi ICE trash thugs” after an ICE agent killed a Colombian man in Maine.
Joan Sebastián Durán, 26, was shot and killed July 13 throughout an tried site visitors cease after he allegedly tried to flee, authorities stated.
