Member of Fading 'Squad' Launches Unhinged ICE Attack

Ayanna Pressley, a member of the increasingly out-of-touch “Squad,” has hit a new low with her latest round of fear-driven rhetoric, once again proving that the left specializes in little more than stoking division and hysteria.

Her latest remarks about ICE detentions are not only ridiculous — they’re a blatant attempt to incite fear and sow division among Americans based on unfounded claims.

Pressley recently toured an ICE detention facility in Louisiana to visit Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk and Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, both of whom, according to the Boston Herald, are facing accusations of spreading anti-Semitism on college campuses.

Following her visit, Pressley launched into an overblown rant, warning, “If people are tempted to marginalize and ‘other’ who this could happen to, again, in Donald Trump’s America, this could be you.”

She elaborated further, as Fox News reported, “This could be you, for some, for a miscarriage. This could be you for practicing diversity, equity and inclusion. This could be you for reading a banned book.”

Such reckless and unsubstantiated claims have become Pressley’s trademark — an over-the-top effort to paint Trump’s America as some dystopian state where reading the wrong book leads to imprisonment.

She didn't stop there. Pressley continued, “It is acutely about Mahmoud and Rümeysa, because those are some of the most high-profile cases, but it has implications for every single person who calls this country home.”

Rather than seeking constructive dialogue or practical solutions, Pressley’s rhetoric serves only to fuel division and stoke irrational fear.

She also described the detention conditions by stating, “This is torture. They are sleep-deprived. They are being denied the basic essentials. Their humanity completely erased.”

Continuing her melodramatic narrative, she declared, “And every person of conscience — this is not about Democrat or Republican right now. This is about right and wrong, good and evil.”

The idea that ICE is operating a gulag because students accused of supporting anti-Semitic activities are facing repercussions is beyond absurd.

The reality is straightforward: in this administration, supporting foreign terrorist organizations carries consequences, and Pressley will simply have to come to terms with that.

Both Khalil and Öztürk were detained due to alleged ties to Hamas, a charge the Trump administration is aggressively pursuing in its broader crackdown.

Pressley’s move to frame their detention as an attack on “diversity” or “reading banned books” is a willful misrepresentation intended to inflame emotions and distort the truth. It's disgraceful.

Meanwhile, the once-loud progressive “Squad” is rapidly losing steam. Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush both lost their primaries in 2024, reflecting a broader repudiation of their extreme methods.

Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems to be distancing herself, frequently spotted alongside Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders — a move some speculate signals the early stages of her 2028 presidential run.

Pressley’s frantic alarmism is simply a last-ditch effort to cling to relevance, but it’s increasingly pushing voters away from the left’s relentless doomsday messaging.

Her comments are detached from reality — built instead on a cynical blueprint of division and fearmongering, a tactic the left has mastered but which Americans are clearly growing weary of.

If Pressley genuinely cared about “right and wrong,” she'd be addressing the tangible issues affecting her district, rather than conjuring up dystopian fantasies to score political points.