Name: Theo and Bernie Sanders Discuss the Ongoing ICE Raids
Uploaded: 2026-01-22T21:10:47.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Bernie Sanders Discuss the Ongoing ICE Raids' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Bernie Sanders Discuss the Ongoing ICE Raids' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-22. Transcript available.

Recently with the ICE raids that have happened in Minnesota, and they're
happening everywhere,
right? I mean, it's become a big thing. And for me, a lot of it is in response
to,
you know, there was such a border policy that was keeping, allowing a lot of
extra people here,
right? Extra people that were not meeting up with their, like their probation
officer,
not probation officers, but their like attendance officers at times, that sort
of situation,
right? So it resulted, it seems like in this situation, we had to hire a lot
extra ICE agents,
some of them even unqualified. Anyway, it's left us in a unique place in
America right now,
but also just another place where people in the streets are having to figure
things out,
and we are all the ones fighting about it online.
Let me briefly tell you my view. People agree with me. Well, not agree with me.
I agree with you
that our border security was weak, okay? There is no excuse, all right? My dad
came from Poland.
You know, other people's parents came from all over the world. All right, you
come to it.
There are reasons why people have kind of tried to slip into the United States.
99% of the times,
it's poverty, it's violence, drug violence, and wherever it is, Mexico,
Guatemala, or whatever.
All right, but that's illegal, and it should be prohibited. We need borders,
strong borders.
We need an immigration process. In my view, okay, that's number one. Number two,
we have between
10 and 14 million undocumented people in this country right now. No one knows
exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, but the vast majority of those people work hard and obey American
law right now.
During COVID, by the way, those were the people who were working in the meatpacking
plants.
Those are the people who got a lot of the virus. Those are the people who died.
They kept the economy going in many respects. All right. In my view, and I
think what most Americans
agree with, if you have lived in this country, even if you came across the
border illegally,
but if you have obeyed the rules of America, you haven't committed crimes, you're
working hard,
you're raising your family, you need a path towards citizenship as part of
comprehensive
immigration reform. And by the way, given the fact that we have worker
shortages all over
this country, we need those workers, okay? So that's, I think, what we need.
Especially skilled labor we need right now.
That's right. That's right. And a lot of these people are doing important work,
keeping the economy going. What Trump has done is in this big, beautiful bill
of his,
greatly expanded funding for ICE. And in my view, what he is doing is not just
trying to get,
and by the way, it used to be, we're trying to get the criminals out of America.
Remember that?
Yeah.
You know, rapists and the murderers. We're well beyond that. Now you're
knocking on doors
of American citizens. You're arresting Americans. You're arresting people who
have never had it.
Oh, now they're finding anybody that makes good tapas.
You got it. That's right. That's exactly right. Okay. And I think this is what
frightens me.
What Trump is using ICE for now is a domestic military operation. And it's part
of this intimidation.
And if you stand up, and that woman in Minnesota, Good is her name?
Yeah, Renee Good.
Renee Good. All right. I saw that video. You know, you don't shoot somebody in
the head who is in that car.
And I think it's Trump saying, I have the power. And we got domestic army. It's
called ICE. And we're
going to go out there. And we're going to arrest. And we're going to intimidate.
And part of that,
this is what Trumpism is about. It's intimidation. All right. You're in the
media. You're CBS. You
say something. I'm going to sue you. You know, Theo, you say something I don't
like. I may sue you.
You know, in, in, I don't like Venezuela. I'm going to, you know, send in the
troops. I got the power and
I'm going to use it. I really, that scares me because that's what authoritarianism
is about. So
do we, should we deal with immigration through comprehensive reform? Absolutely.
I think that's
what the American people want. Do we want guys with masks around their face,
dragging people out of
their apartments, out of their cars? I, you know, I, I don't think so. I don't
think that's what the
American people want. Yeah. More and more resentment to that. Yeah. And we're
in a tough
spot too, because we see things more now, right? We see all of it. Yes, you do.
We see it. So
before you would just hear about her, you would knew it was a plan, but you
didn't have the visual
effect of it and how the visual effect makes you feel. Cell phones have
revolutionized politics and
that's everybody got a cell phone can take a video. And I think there's, that's
one of the side
effects too. Like I agree. Like Trump has an authoritarian energy, right? He,
there's this, you know,
and there's, there's positive parts about that. And there's negative parts
about that.
Nope. I don't agree that there's anything positive about authoritarianism.
Well, maybe authoritarianism is, I think somebody that's like somebody that
decisiveness. Yes. That's what I mean. Decisiveness. Yes. Making bold decisions.
Yes. Yes.
That's the part that I think. Authoritarianism, disregarding the constitution
and the rule of
law. I'm sorry. No, I agree. I agree with that. That's, and that's what I meant.
Thank you.