Some European far-right parties and politicians have sparked a backlash by calling for a police force in their countries resembling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ICE, which enforces federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration, has been mired in controversy after its agents killed two U.S. citizens in recent weeks, amid a push by the Trump administration to deport unauthorized immigrants.
That has not deterred the Bavarian branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Belgian far-right Vlaams Belang party from proposing police units that resemble ICE, in calls that have stoked an outcry from political opponents.
In January, the Bavarian arm of the AfD said it would put forward plans in regional parliament for a police unit focused on deporting immigrants who have entered the country illegally, as part of an array of steps to curb unauthorized immigration, according to an internal party document reported by German media.
âIn addition to state-run deportation flights, we are calling for the creation of an asylum, investigation, and deportation unit within the Bavarian police,â the AfD parliamentary group leader Katrin Ebner-Steiner said. The Bavarian Police Union said there is no legal basis for a deportation unit.
Belgiumâs Vlaams Belang plans to submit a proposal for a similar police unit in the coming days. While MP Francesca Van Belleghem rejected the comparison with ICE because, she said, the Belgian unit would remain part of the existing police and not a separate federal agency, the details of the plan suggest otherwise: Specialized officers in every police zone, full units in major cities and border areas, and agents actively hunting unauthorized immigrants.
âInstead of only registering illegal immigrants when they are caught by chance, the unit would actively search for persons without legal status,â Van Belleghem told POLITICO, adding: âWe do not allow our national proposals to be dictated by the international context.â
In France, meanwhile, far-right firebrand and ReconquĂȘte party founder Ăric Zemmour did not rule out the idea when asked in a TV interview whether France should have a police force similar to ICE. âIt would need to be adapted to France and to French institutions. But weâll have to be ruthless,â Zemmour told BFMTV.
Political scientist Laura Jacobs from the University of Antwerp said that some far-right parties are careful and avoid association with Trump as it could hurt their image, but âare indeed referring to [a] similar police force.â
potatolulz on
but we already had the Sturmabteilung in Europe, didn’t work out all that great for Europe. Didn’t work out great for the members of the Sturmabteilung either tbh đ
Adorable-Database187 on
Are these the ones supporting Putin, or the ones supported by trump?
ExotiquePlayboy on
Iâm from the Caribbean
Europe needs ICE, we used to want to emigrate to places like Europe but seeing how much of a third world Europe has become, places like the UAE and USA where they actually enforce laws are more appealing now
frissio on
The plan from the European far-right to copy the American Far-Right was likely planned for a longtime, groups such as the Heritage Foundation are still targetting Europe. This collusion has been well known for a while now.
That being said, several botched policies including ICE being vile beyond any capacity to justify them (and many have tried) as well as diplomatic crises like with the American threat to Greenland and the EU (where the European Far-Right either had to condemn the Americans or stay silent or even try to justify it and take the popularity hit) has disrupted that timetable.
Some like the AfD and the Belgian Far-right seem like they are still going to try however.
StrangerConscious637 on
# European far-right parties push for Gestapo-like police
Xylit-No-Spazzolino on
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Grouchy_Fan_2236 on
To be fair it’s ICE that is built to copy more successful European anti-immigration police departments. It’s just that European police gets the job done much smoother without unnecessary violence.
Plane_Willingness_25 on
I welcome the fact that far-right EU parties are hitching their political and ideological wagon to the failing Trump project
VLamperouge on
I mean, we now know for a fact that there exists an international organised far right, so itâs not a surprise that every right wing party wants the same kind of authoritarian repressive and mass surveillance regime.
ASuarezMascareno on
The worst parties in Europe are desperate to copy the worst aspects of the worst first first world country.
Fucking no.
Temporary_Sell3384 on
Again another problem with any federation arguments. A far-right/centre-right coalition would bring this is in and then what? What happens to European solidarity when secret police state rounding up people?
NocturneFogg on
Well there’s a surprise …
BottleForsaken9200 on
Isn’t this “incitement to violence”?
More-Dragonfly-6387 on
They can go fuck themselves
Aurorion on
But isn’t the ICE itself a poor copy of what Europe had earlier? The SS?
jkewow on
No thanks. Been voting right (Moderaterna) in four elections so far here in Sweden, 2026 will be the first election the left gets my vote. This shit cannot go on, and the right wing extremist movement needs to be stopped.
I urge everyone to (maybe temporarily) shift their focus from personal gains to help in stopping this from developing further. May it be higher taxes, or something else – it means nothing if we let the fascists take over.
BaziJoeWHL on
we had Nyilaskeresztesek (Arrow Cross Party/People) once, we dont need them anymore
krgdotbat on
More desestabilization pushed by GRU operatives and their puppets*
samuel199228 on
Reform in UK were mentioning about having ice like police I don’t agree with UK having that
LurkingWeirdo88 on
So they want to expand EUs executive power over nation states, by forming federal police?
Commonmispelingbot on
Yeah, we already tried that.
Round_Headed_Gimp on
The one thing that might make me vote for a right wing party for the first time.
I have doubts about them actually going through with it.
Murky-Welder8108 on
This is what we wanted!
Dramatic-Border3549 on
Didn’t they have one until decades ago? It was called Gestapo, I think
Zonesy on
Who is pushing for the Gestapo again?
This shit goes so well with Russian propaganda when they can keep claiming europe is full of nazis when idiots go along with this shit!
No_Conversation_9325 on
DejavĂș
maschayana on
Burn them by the stake
Kriver7524 on
At this point ICE should be considered a terrorist organization.
fluffHead_0919 on
Weâre in a hybrid of Children of Men and 1984.
MrBocconotto on
Europe inventing gestapo all over again
Vendemmia on
You will be surprised but far right and far left parties are normally full of morons!
Ed_Dantesk on
No thanks
Broken_chairs on
Are these the European far right parties that are *checks notes* being funded by Trump? Shocking…
Fit_Fisherman_9840 on
Fascist parties want Fascist style police, next news water wet and they are in the epstein files as foreign agents.
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Some European far-right parties and politicians have sparked a backlash by calling for a police force in their countries resembling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ICE, which enforces federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration, has been mired in controversy after its agents killed two U.S. citizens in recent weeks, amid a push by the Trump administration to deport unauthorized immigrants.
That has not deterred the Bavarian branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Belgian far-right Vlaams Belang party from proposing police units that resemble ICE, in calls that have stoked an outcry from political opponents.
In January, the Bavarian arm of the AfD said it would put forward plans in regional parliament for a police unit focused on deporting immigrants who have entered the country illegally, as part of an array of steps to curb unauthorized immigration, according to an internal party document reported by German media.
âIn addition to state-run deportation flights, we are calling for the creation of an asylum, investigation, and deportation unit within the Bavarian police,â the AfD parliamentary group leader Katrin Ebner-Steiner said. The Bavarian Police Union said there is no legal basis for a deportation unit.
Belgiumâs Vlaams Belang plans to submit a proposal for a similar police unit in the coming days. While MP Francesca Van Belleghem rejected the comparison with ICE because, she said, the Belgian unit would remain part of the existing police and not a separate federal agency, the details of the plan suggest otherwise: Specialized officers in every police zone, full units in major cities and border areas, and agents actively hunting unauthorized immigrants.
âInstead of only registering illegal immigrants when they are caught by chance, the unit would actively search for persons without legal status,â Van Belleghem told POLITICO, adding: âWe do not allow our national proposals to be dictated by the international context.â
In France, meanwhile, far-right firebrand and ReconquĂȘte party founder Ăric Zemmour did not rule out the idea when asked in a TV interview whether France should have a police force similar to ICE. âIt would need to be adapted to France and to French institutions. But weâll have to be ruthless,â Zemmour told BFMTV.
Political scientist Laura Jacobs from the University of Antwerp said that some far-right parties are careful and avoid association with Trump as it could hurt their image, but âare indeed referring to [a] similar police force.â
but we already had the Sturmabteilung in Europe, didn’t work out all that great for Europe. Didn’t work out great for the members of the Sturmabteilung either tbh đ
Are these the ones supporting Putin, or the ones supported by trump?
Iâm from the Caribbean
Europe needs ICE, we used to want to emigrate to places like Europe but seeing how much of a third world Europe has become, places like the UAE and USA where they actually enforce laws are more appealing now
The plan from the European far-right to copy the American Far-Right was likely planned for a longtime, groups such as the Heritage Foundation are still targetting Europe. This collusion has been well known for a while now.
That being said, several botched policies including ICE being vile beyond any capacity to justify them (and many have tried) as well as diplomatic crises like with the American threat to Greenland and the EU (where the European Far-Right either had to condemn the Americans or stay silent or even try to justify it and take the popularity hit) has disrupted that timetable.
Some like the AfD and the Belgian Far-right seem like they are still going to try however.
# European far-right parties push for Gestapo-like police
surprised_pikachu.gif
To be fair it’s ICE that is built to copy more successful European anti-immigration police departments. It’s just that European police gets the job done much smoother without unnecessary violence.
I welcome the fact that far-right EU parties are hitching their political and ideological wagon to the failing Trump project
I mean, we now know for a fact that there exists an international organised far right, so itâs not a surprise that every right wing party wants the same kind of authoritarian repressive and mass surveillance regime.
The worst parties in Europe are desperate to copy the worst aspects of the worst first first world country.
Fucking no.
Again another problem with any federation arguments. A far-right/centre-right coalition would bring this is in and then what? What happens to European solidarity when secret police state rounding up people?
Well there’s a surprise …
Isn’t this “incitement to violence”?
They can go fuck themselves
But isn’t the ICE itself a poor copy of what Europe had earlier? The SS?
No thanks. Been voting right (Moderaterna) in four elections so far here in Sweden, 2026 will be the first election the left gets my vote. This shit cannot go on, and the right wing extremist movement needs to be stopped.
I urge everyone to (maybe temporarily) shift their focus from personal gains to help in stopping this from developing further. May it be higher taxes, or something else – it means nothing if we let the fascists take over.
we had Nyilaskeresztesek (Arrow Cross Party/People) once, we dont need them anymore
More desestabilization pushed by GRU operatives and their puppets*
Reform in UK were mentioning about having ice like police I don’t agree with UK having that
So they want to expand EUs executive power over nation states, by forming federal police?
Yeah, we already tried that.
The one thing that might make me vote for a right wing party for the first time.
I have doubts about them actually going through with it.
This is what we wanted!
Didn’t they have one until decades ago? It was called Gestapo, I think
Who is pushing for the Gestapo again?
This shit goes so well with Russian propaganda when they can keep claiming europe is full of nazis when idiots go along with this shit!
DejavĂș
Burn them by the stake
At this point ICE should be considered a terrorist organization.
Weâre in a hybrid of Children of Men and 1984.
Europe inventing gestapo all over again
You will be surprised but far right and far left parties are normally full of morons!
No thanks
Are these the European far right parties that are *checks notes* being funded by Trump? Shocking…
Fascist parties want Fascist style police, next news water wet and they are in the epstein files as foreign agents.