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Joe Rogan Unloads on Trump’s ‘Insane’ ICE Raids

The podcast star—who endorsed Trump in 2024—blasted immigration sweeps that are nabbing “construction workers and gardeners.”

Joe Rogan has once again ICE’ed President Donald Trump for focusing immigration raids on ordinary laborers instead of hardened criminals.

“It’s insane,” Rogan said on his podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, on Wednesday. “The targeting of migrant workers—not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers. Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really?”

“I don’t think anybody would have signed up for that,” he added.

Trump had pledged to focus his mass deportation effort on the “worst of the worst,” but data reviewed by ABC News shows the administration has increasingly targeted migrants with no criminal history.

It is not the first time the Trump cheerleader has recoiled at the president’s hard-line immigration tactics.

In March, Rogan warned that “people who are not criminals are getting lassoed up and deported and sent to El Salvador prisons,” which he called “horrific.”

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“Let’s get the gang members out,” he added. “Everybody agrees. But let’s not get innocent gay hairdressers lumped up with the gangs?”

Rogan has also been critical of Trump’s foreign policy.

Last month, he told Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that MAGA world is “very divided” because voters “thought they were voting for no war," only to see Trump launch strikes on Iran.

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“Well, now it seems like we’re in a war,” he said, questioning whether the president had betrayed his isolationist pledge.

The and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for the Department for Homeland Security said the “official data tells the real story.”

“An overwhelming majority of ICE arrests were criminal illegal aliens with criminal convictions or pending criminal charges,” she said. “Further, many illegal aliens categorized as “non-criminals” are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gang members and worse—they just don’t have a rap sheet in the US. This deceptive “non-criminal” categorization is devoid of reality and misleads the American public.”

A White House spokesperson said “Trump campaigned on executing the largest mass deportation operation in history and he is fulfilling the promise by getting criminal illegals out of the country.” 

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