If you listen to the mainstream media, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is an occupying force, causing chaos wherever they are with their “Gestapo tactics." The violent confrontations make for juicy headlines, viral videos, and all sorts of clicks. But what if they finally told you the truth?
There are details about the ongoing immigration enforcement that the left doesn’t want you to know because it undermines the narrative they’re pushing. They care more about using violence to advance their agenda, so they ignore the inconvenient facts.
For example, did you know that two-thirds of violent confrontations involving ICE agents over the past year are concentrated in just nine counties? And I bet it wouldn’t shock you to know that all of those nine counties are Democratic-run sanctuary jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
When the media reports on the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two anti-ICE agitators who interfered with immigration enforcement actions, they want you to believe the problem is with Trump’s policies or ICE agents’ tactics. But, in reality, the chaos, violence, and death we’ve seen are the fault of the radical left.
Kevin Bass examined public databases and media reports on violent confrontations with ICE from January 20, 2025, through January 26, 2026, across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., to make this discovery.
"I analyzed public databases and media reporting on violent confrontations with ICE over the past year," Bass wrote. "Just 9 counties accounted for TWO-THIRDS of violent confrontations with ICE in America. This is twice all violent confrontations in the remaining 3,134 counties COMBINED."
I am horrified. I cannot believe it.
— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) January 26, 2026
I analyzed public databases and media reporting on violent confrontations with ICE over the past year.
Just 9 counties accounted for TWO-THIRDS of violent confrontations with ICE in America.
This is twice all violent confrontations in the… pic.twitter.com/PuQuntgtGF
Bass’s analysis focuses on confrontations involving non-immigrants—protesters, journalists, bystanders, U.S. citizens, and officers—who were not the targets of immigration enforcement operations. The study defines "violent confrontation" to include incidents where protesters clash with ICE, journalists and bystanders are caught up in operations, U.S. citizens are wrongfully detained, assaulted, or deported, and ICE or CBP officers are injured in attacks on facilities.
The numbers are very telling.
"The top 9 counties account for 63% of all violent confrontations with non-immigrants nationwide," Bass explained. "A violent confrontation is 590 TIMES MORE LIKELY in the top 9 counties than in any of the other 3,134 US counties."
The major cities in these top 9 counties are well-known:
— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) January 26, 2026
Chicago is at the top, with Brandon Johnson as mayor.
Then, in order:
Los Angeles (Karen Bass)
Minneapolis (Jacob Frey)
New York City (Zohran Mamdani)
Portland (Karen Wilson)
Then San Francisco, Seattle, Newark, and…
Bass documents 400 total incidents involving ICE, of which 174 involve non-immigrants; 110 of those non-immigrant incidents (63%) occurred in the top nine counties, while 64 (37%) occurred in the remaining 3,134 counties.
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In the dataset, nine counties have four or more non-immigrant incidents each, yielding a per-county likelihood ratio of 590-to-1 for violent confrontations compared to other U.S. counties. The nine highest-incident counties and their primary cities are Cook County, Illinois (Chicago); Los Angeles County, California (Los Angeles); Hennepin County, Minnesota (Minneapolis); New York County, New York (New York City); Multnomah County, Oregon (Portland); San Francisco County, California (San Francisco); King County, Washington (Seattle); Essex County, New Jersey (Newark); and Denver County, Colorado (Denver).
All run by Democrats. All are sanctuary jurisdictions where the local Democrat leadership actively resists federal law enforcement. Think that’s a coincidence?
The media won’t tell you this because it undermines the narrative that Trump is to blame.
