ICE Deportee: “I Got Deported By ICE After 20 Years In America”
The Winston Marshall Show
Winston Marshall
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Winston Marshall Show, I sit down with a British deportee known as Ted Jones for a remarkable conversation about immigration, deportation, and identity in the modern West.
After spending more than twenty years in the United States, Ted recounts his experience of being tracked, detained, and deported by ICE, offering a rare first-hand account of how the system actually works. We examine the realities of illegal immigration, the complexity of legal status, and why the public debate often misses the nuance behind individual cases.
The conversation explores the politics of mass deportation, the rhetoric of the Trump era, and the gap between perception and reality when it comes to enforcement. Ted reflects on law, order, and why he believes deportation is necessary, even as someone who lived through it.
We also discuss his return to Britain, his controversial viral comments about the state of the country, and the deeper questions of national identity, belonging, and cultural confidence in both the UK and the United States.
A conversation about immigration, citizenship, and what it means to belong in an age of global movement.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
02:13 Legal vs Illegal Immigration Explained
03:40 The Visa Overstay
05:00 Childhood Detention and Court Failure
06:13 Why He Wasn’t Deported Earlier
07:47 Inside an ICE Detention Centre
09:28 The Moment ICE Arrested Him
11:00 Why Mass Deportations Are Unrealistic
12:02 Trump’s Rhetoric vs Reality
15:15 The Moral Conflict of Living Illegally
18:45 Family Division Over Politics and Faith
23:15 Trump Then vs Trump Now
28:53 Arriving in Britain — “This Country Sucks”
30:26 Regret, Context, and Viral Backlash
32:03 Is Britain in Decline?
35:41 Why Are Brits Ashamed of Their Country?
38:50 Identity Crisis — British, Ghanaian or American?
41:19 What the Left Gets Wrong on Immigration
42:07 What the Right Gets Wrong on Immigration
44:57 The Truth About the British Empire
46:25 Final Reflections
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Winston Marshall Show with me, Winston Marshall. |
| 0:04.0 | I sat down with the viral ICE deportee who goes by the name of Ted Jones. |
| 0:11.8 | Ted, not his real name, became a bit of an icon on various social media platforms because, |
| 0:18.6 | despite being deported in a recent batch of deportees by ICE and |
| 0:24.2 | Trump's immigration policy, he's actually come out in support of Trump. And when he does criticize |
| 0:29.9 | Trump, is actually not from the left, but from the right. So I wanted to hear in his own words, |
| 0:36.6 | what was the experience of being deported? What |
| 0:39.5 | do we not know? What do we not see that goes on behind the scenes? How it's been for him |
| 0:45.6 | adapting to his new life in Britain. He's technically and administratively British, but does he |
| 0:52.6 | actually feel like he's Britain? What does this say |
| 0:54.7 | about immigration in our country here in England? All of that and much more, but before you |
| 1:02.0 | hear from the man who goes by the name Ted Jones, I just wanted to say, thank you, thank you for |
| 1:07.2 | your continued support. Remember to press subscribe wherever you get your podcasts from. And if you head over to wintershal.com. |
| 1:13.1 | Which is our substack. Not only will you be able to ask future guests your questions, but you'll enjoy ad free viewing and listening. |
| 1:21.1 | But without further ado, Ted Jones. |
| 1:24.7 | Welcome to the show, Ted. There's not your actual name, but it's the name you're going by, Ted Jones. |
| 1:31.1 | Tell me how ICE found you and then brought you to Britain. |
| 1:38.4 | So I was living in Chicago the last few years of my life, and I suppose I wasn't hard to track down. I had filed my |
| 1:47.8 | taxes. I had employment authorization. I was working. I had all manner of documentation that was |
| 1:53.3 | connected to my Chicago apartment with my address on file. So at the end, I was not hard to track |
| 2:00.8 | down at all by ice. |
| 2:01.9 | Right. And you are a British citizen, a British national. |
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