This Isn’t Over: The ICE Fight Is Just Beginning

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Chris Cuomo explains why the battle over ICE enforcement is entering a more dangerous phase — not winding down. He argues that what many see as isolated clashes are actually part of a broader pattern: heightened federal presence, sharper rhetoric, and political incentives that reward confrontation over resolution. Cuomo breaks down how enforcement tactics, protest dynamics, and partisan messaging are feeding off one another. He draws a clear line between supporting law enforcement and endorsing strategies that make conflict more likely, and asks who benefits when tension keeps rising instead of cooling. If the current trajectory holds, the fight over immigration enforcement won’t stabilize on its own. The real question is whether anyone in power is willing to change course before escalation becomes the new normal. Join The Chris Cuomo Project on YouTube for ad-free episodes, early releases, exclusive access to Chris, and more: https://www.youtube.com/@chriscuomo/join Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://shopify.com/chrisc Soul is offering my audience 30% off your entire order! Go to https://GetSoul.com and use the code CUOMO Get 25% Off Cowboy Colostrum with code CUOMO at https:// www.cowboycolostrum.com/CUOMO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	You ever see in the movies where there's a woman who comes in, she's a black eye?
0:34.6	And people look and say, what happened? Oh, I bumped into a wall.
0:39.0	And everybody's like, because you know, she didn't really bump into a wall, right?
0:44.2	We're now supposed to believe that someone in ICE custody, a young man, 31 years old, broke his own skull, running into a wall, trying to evade arrest.
1:03.3	Forget about your gut, your common sense, telling you, have you even ever heard that before?
1:11.6	Doctors, experts are all questioning this.
1:18.2	Why?
1:19.5	One, it doesn't make any sense.
1:22.5	Two, because this is ice.
1:25.3	And as much as I respect, okay, and revere in a lot of instances in terms of the duty,
1:35.1	first responders, specifically law enforcement, right, even though I'm a baby firefighter myself,
1:41.4	the police, the job they do, amazing. I see it up close on a regular
1:47.6	basis. Because, you know, first responders work with first responders. Anyway, I do not mean
1:55.1	to disparage law enforcement. I don't even mean to disparage ICE as an entity, but the change in culture, the change in personnel,
2:07.8	the change in policy seems to have led to a change in purpose, meaning might makes right,
2:19.7	meaning us and them.
2:34.1	And in part because of perverse politics and a little bit because the left made a mistake. And I understand why in this situation is certainly not about them,
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