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BumRushDaShow

(165,178 posts)
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 03:09 PM Tuesday

Santa rounds up migrants for ICE in Trump administration's Christmas-themed AI video

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 23 December 2025 07:52 EST


U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has released an AI-generated Christmas advert, showing Santa Claus working as an ICE agent.

The video, in which an imposing Father Christmas is seen wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying weapons, urges undocumented immigrants to leave the country voluntarily.

The figure, depicted wearing Santa’s traditional red suit and with a white beard, appears with an ICE logo across his chest. He is then shown detaining migrants on a street alongside other officers, processing one individual at an immigration facility and escorting him onto a plane for deportation.

The video encourages undocumented immigrants to “avoid Santa’s naughty list” by self-deporting using the CBP One app, which was previously used by the Biden administration to allow migrants to enter the U.S. legally.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ice-deportation-santa-video-ai-b2889443.html






U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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AVOID ICE AIR AND SANTA’S NAUGHTY LIST!

Self-deport today with the CBP Home app, earn $3,000 and spend Christmas at home with loved ones.

Holiday incentive is valid through the end of 2025.
6:04 PM · Dec 22, 2025


Evil.
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Santa rounds up migrants for ICE in Trump administration's Christmas-themed AI video (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Tuesday OP
Man they are some sick fucks. yourout Tuesday #1
Degenerate, sick fucks. Solly Mack Tuesday #2
These hateful jerks need a visit from Krampas. ChicagoTeamster Tuesday #3
Probably the conditions are such that you must spend more than $3K in order to qualify AZJonnie Tuesday #4
This stuff is so lame. Oneironaut Tuesday #5
What the hell??? PatSeg Tuesday #6
Trash. They truly are the definition of it. Alice B. Tuesday #7
Soon they'll have baby Jesus riding shotgun. littlemissmartypants Tuesday #8
Just when you think that they've reach the bottom. djacq Tuesday #9
That really is sick. How are you supposed to deal with people with such sick, twisted minds? Wiz Imp Tuesday #10
Noem, Bovino, and ICE are hoping for a White Christmas, just like the ones they used to have. LudwigPastorius Tuesday #11
I don't think they care how it looks odins folly Tuesday #12
Weird. Santa ain't even American. NT mwooldri Tuesday #13
Is this satire? I cant tell anymore uppityperson Tuesday #14
Right wing values. nt Exp Tuesday #15
Cruelty with sick humor for the base. They love it. Evolve Dammit Tuesday #16
Jesus Christ orangecrush Tuesday #17
I don't think he's involved. Ocelot II Tuesday #27
Maybe next year popsdenver Tuesday #18
If they could find a C-5A that would be a perfect thing to do jmowreader Tuesday #21
thanks for the update popsdenver Tuesday #22
The current model is the C-5M jmowreader 18 hrs ago #33
Around 1972, I saw a C-5 in the air Zackzzzz Tuesday #28
I was stationed at Dover AFB many years back. Prof. Toru Tanaka 17 hrs ago #36
I never cease to be amazed by the sickness of these people. Fil1957 Tuesday #19
I would start screaming about ICE's "War on Christmas!" slightlv Tuesday #20
Pure evil. SunSeeker Tuesday #23
No Republican is ever going to heaven, period. byronius Tuesday #24
Santa should deliver Trump a railcar full of coal Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday #25
One lump of coal would be a better punitive gift for him jmowreader 18 hrs ago #34
I wish I believed in Hell. Ocelot II Tuesday #26
I no longer wonder how low they can go. Next up: Jesus in an ICE "uniform". LoisB Tuesday #29
There is such a thing as Evil Santa and this is it sakabatou Tuesday #30
Wow! I don't know what to say? Devilsun Tuesday #31
Absolutely abhorrent. Queso Delicioso Tuesday #32
The thing is the administration is lying like always fujiyamasan 18 hrs ago #35
These people are deranged. travelingthrulife 16 hrs ago #37
So ironic that they are torturing and murdering immigrants on the very holiday travelingthrulife 16 hrs ago #38
I Hope ConstanceCee 10 hrs ago #39

AZJonnie

(2,713 posts)
4. Probably the conditions are such that you must spend more than $3K in order to qualify
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 03:36 PM
Tuesday

Some shit like, you have report to a military base, get processed, have a bunch of tests done on you, then you get put on a military plane, and flown back your country and dropped off, in order to get the $3K.

Airfare and Total Cost to You: $3984
Credit: $3000
Your Cost, Payable Today: $984

Obviously I'm making shit up, but who would be surprised?

Oneironaut

(6,195 posts)
5. This stuff is so lame.
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 03:39 PM
Tuesday

They want the upset reaction. Our government is one big baby screaming for attention.

It’s best to just cringe and move on. This stuff is made for the Twitter circlejerk.

littlemissmartypants

(31,446 posts)
8. Soon they'll have baby Jesus riding shotgun.
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 03:48 PM
Tuesday

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

djacq

(1,773 posts)
9. Just when you think that they've reach the bottom.
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 04:32 PM
Tuesday

There's always a lower level.

Despicable.

odins folly

(536 posts)
12. I don't think they care how it looks
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 04:44 PM
Tuesday

Last edited Tue Dec 23, 2025, 06:58 PM - Edit history (1)

Or how over the top evil it appears.

As long as they “own the libs” ….

It is nothing more than an outrage generation machine


Fuck these people…

popsdenver

(1,433 posts)
18. Maybe next year
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 07:23 PM
Tuesday

we will have REAL news video of Trump and his entire CABAL, His appointees, His advisers, His Bimbo's, His spawn, Jared, all Republican Governors, Republican House Members, Republican Senators and Republican Supreme Court Justices, all being squeezed into a giant C-5A, with parachutes, on their way to Russia to be parachuted over the Kremlin......
And if there is another C-5A or two, The Republican donor oligarchs, his new clan of Robber Barrons, and the Top 500 Corporate CEO's, the entire ICE, and every member of the Border Patrol....

Then a couple more C-5A's with the proud boys, J6 insurrectionists, etc, etc etc all dressed up in their wannabe military garb and assault weapons, but drop them in some war zone and see how they like going up against REAL armed soldiers.........

jmowreader

(52,870 posts)
21. If they could find a C-5A that would be a perfect thing to do
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 08:00 PM
Tuesday

The Air Force upgraded them to C-5B specification because the wings on the C-5A were cracking - the metal in their framework wasn't strong enough.

So what I figure is, we get the only remaining original-wing C-5A, turn it into a drone and load the entire Trump Cabal on it, then take off and wait until the wings detach from the airframe.

popsdenver

(1,433 posts)
22. thanks for the update
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 08:51 PM
Tuesday

I thought there was some version around........I recall seeing one decades ago, at Stapleton Airport in Denver, (before DIA) and it taxied by a 747 and the size comparison was unreal........

There was a space rocket built here in Denver, and the C-5A was the only plane that could transport the sections due to the front loading?????????

Zackzzzz

(246 posts)
28. Around 1972, I saw a C-5 in the air
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 10:09 PM
Tuesday

and then landing. I could not imagine how it stayed in the air.
It was landing sooooo slow and it was sooooo big.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,901 posts)
36. I was stationed at Dover AFB many years back.
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 09:28 AM
17 hrs ago

Watching those planes coming in for a landing was great! They were just majestic.

slightlv

(7,403 posts)
20. I would start screaming about ICE's "War on Christmas!"
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 07:56 PM
Tuesday

The R's sure yelled at us about it all the time, regardless of the fact their was no proof or issues... only feeling victimized because their voice wasn't the only voice allowed to be heard.

This is Santa-killing for children. This is an actual War on Christmas... on what it means, on the symbols connected to it. Make them pay!

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,386 posts)
25. Santa should deliver Trump a railcar full of coal
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 09:39 PM
Tuesday

Since he's so interested in keeping the industry alive.

jmowreader

(52,870 posts)
34. One lump of coal would be a better punitive gift for him
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 07:56 AM
18 hrs ago

If you give Trump a railcar full of coal he'll have it sold and the money in his loanshark's hands by the end of the day.

Ocelot II

(128,846 posts)
26. I wish I believed in Hell.
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 09:44 PM
Tuesday

This is some evil, warped, depraved shit. What's the actual fuck is wrong with people who can even imagine something like this?

fujiyamasan

(1,132 posts)
35. The thing is the administration is lying like always
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 08:06 AM
18 hrs ago

There have been reports of arrests of people heading toward the border when self deporting or exiting the country.

There is no bonus or any other incentive for people doing the “right thing”.

The only incentives that exists are the bonuses for ICE agents to meet and exceed exceed their quotas.

travelingthrulife

(4,322 posts)
38. So ironic that they are torturing and murdering immigrants on the very holiday
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 10:30 AM
16 hrs ago

their Savior was an undocumented person.

ConstanceCee

(372 posts)
39. I Hope
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 04:41 PM
10 hrs ago

I hope everyone who is considering "self-deportation" waits, because the amount offered will go up.

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