A Fine Mess. A Terrible Way To End 2025.

Hope for the best. Expect the worst.

That is exactly what we got from Donald Trump and the shameful Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem this year.

Here are just a some of the images from this sleazy administration:

 

 1) Protesters face off with US Border Patrol agents as federal immigration agents carry out a raid at a legal marijuana farm in Camarillo, California, on July 10. Jaime Alanis, a 57-year-old farmworker, fell from a greenhouse roof during the raid and later died from his injuries. He is the first known person to die during one of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations.
(NOTHING on their uniforms indicating ICE, Police, Sheriff, etc. Just shields and combat gear.)

2) An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer yells and waves his finger at Monica Moreta-Galarza after shoving her into a wall and then pushing her to the ground at an immigration court in New York City on September 25. Her husband had just been detained by ICE and they were being wrestled away from each other. Moreta-Galarza and her family had open asylum claims, according to US Rep. Dan Goldman, whose district includes the courthouse. The ICE officer who pushed her was later “relieved of his current duties,” an official said. He was placed back on duty days later after a review of the incident, two US officials familiar with the matter told CBS News

3) Margelis Tinoco, a migrant from Colombia, reacts in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, after learning that her appointment to seek asylum through US immigration courts had been canceled on January 20. It was inauguration day for President Donald Trump, and his administration moved with lightning speed to roll out his immigration agenda and effectively close off the southern border to asylum seekers.

4) Detained migrants sit on a US Air Force plane as they wait for a removal flight to take off in Tucson, Arizona, on January 23. Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump signed a spate of executive actions on immigration. Incoming refugee flights were canceled, troops were moving to the border, federal authorities were given permission to arrest people in or near schools and churches, and the pool of undocumented immigrants eligible for quick deportation without a judicial hearing was expanded. 

5) Two officers with the California Highway Patrol try to dodge rocks being thrown near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles on June 8. President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to the city after protests over immigration raids turned into violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement. 

6) Protesters are reflected in a helmet visor in downtown Los Angeles on June 8. Law enforcement officials, including members of the National Guard, were trying to disperse protests that had begun in response to immigration raids.
(She looks petrified... as she should.)

7) Law enforcement officers in El Salvador escort a man who had just arrived on a deportation flight from the United States on March 15. Hundreds of mostly alleged Venezuelan gang members were deported from the United States and sent to a prison in El Salvador with the Trump administration invoking wartime powers to speed up removals despite a court ruling halting the move. The administration said it would pay El Salvador $6 million to house the deportees.

8) A federal agent wears a mask at an immigration court in New York City on July 16. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons has said federal officers are covering up to protect their families after some have been publicly identified and then harassed online, along with relatives. 
(In regards to this photo, well, maybe if they were acting in accordance WITH the law instead of against it, WE THE PEOPLE wouldn't feel compelled to "doxx" them.)

9) Protesters clash with law enforcement outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, on June 19. The building was the center of almost constant protests throughout the summer. Most of the protests outside the facility have been peaceful, but occasionally they have ended in the deployment of tear gas and the facility being closed for several days. In September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum announcing 200 members of the Oregon National Guard would be “called into Federal service effective immediately for a period of 60 days.” The city of Portland and the state of Oregon then filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration had overreached its mandate in federalizing the Oregon National Guard in response to unrest. 
(You remember Portland, Oregon, right?  The Naked Bike rides? Yup, that's us! )

10) Finally, the serpentine border wall, separating Mexico from the United States, ends abruptly on the outskirts of Fort Hancock, Texas, on January 23.  So much for "build a wall!"