Will Anti-ICE Protests Become the BLM Equivalent for Midterms?
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
A political movement aimed at influencing the midterm elections is now taking shape, and it appears that anti-ICE protests are the new rallying call. The protests are now growing in size to the tens of thousands, the Trump administration is responding by bolstering the number of federal agents, and investigations are now being launched into the organizers behind the movements.
We’ll discuss this topic, and others, in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | The anti-Eyes protests of the new rallying call for the midterm elections, and these are very quickly becoming the equivalent of the Black Lives Matter protests, at least in terms of organization, structure, and political use, which is the important thing. |
| 0:16.0 | On another topic, the big scandal in American politics in recent years was that Arctic Frost, the legal |
| 0:21.9 | investigations of President Trump and those around him targeting him or going after him. |
| 0:28.3 | And now those investigations are themselves becoming a growing scandal on many fronts actually. |
| 0:35.3 | I'll be going to these topics a lot more today, so make sure to hit the like button, |
| 0:39.3 | leave a comment, and let's get started. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigative Reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:51.3 | A political movement aimed at influence in the midterm elections is now taking shape. |
| 0:58.4 | Every American election has this normally on the Democrat side, maybe the exception of like |
| 1:03.4 | Trump and the stop to steal rallies in Jan 6th. Otherwise it's most of the Democrats. |
| 1:08.8 | They tend to do mass organization, a big rallying call. |
| 1:14.1 | They get people protesting, it turns into riots. All the media bum rushes it. All the politicians |
| 1:19.7 | talk about it. In the past, it's been other things, it looks like for the midterms. It's the |
| 1:25.4 | anti-ice protests. These are the new political campaign. |
| 1:30.3 | And the protests are now growing in size to the tens of thousands. |
| 1:34.3 | And the Trump administration is responding by bolstering the number of federal agents |
| 1:38.3 | and investigating, interestingly, what are the organizations behind the movement? And that's going to be a big thing |
| 1:47.4 | because these are not necessarily grassroots. Yes, there's grassroots involvement, but there's big money, |
| 1:53.9 | big organizations, and typically the same ones from one movement to the next. The same ones behind this are the same ones behind BLM. The same ones behind just about every other mass movement we have in the country, because these are political tools. These are political tools. Now the Epic Times says this. tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Minneapolis on January 10th to protest |
| 2:22.3 | the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an immigration and customs enforcement or ICE officer, |
| 2:28.3 | according to a Minneapolis police department estimate provided to the Epic Times. |
| 2:32.3 | Now, Renee Nicole Good was the woman who was in her |
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