Philadelphia made news this year when, inexplicably, the city’s district attorney, Larry Krasner, County Sheriff Rochelle Bilal, and the City Council all took aggressive and radical positions against illegal immigration enforcement operations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Throughout 2026, Krasner called ICE officers “wannabe Nazis,” Bilal labeled them “fake, wannabe law enforcement,” and the City Council passed “ICE Out” legislation to supposedly limit ICE operations in Philadelphia. This was despite there being no controversial ICE incidents in the city.
Nevertheless, over the past two weeks, the anti-ICE rage has inexplicably risen again. Despite multiple high-profile killings in the past few months, including those of Billy Schmidt, a Penn State University student, and Philadelphia police officer Shane Seiber, two City Council members focused on matters that really have zero relevance to the city and organized two “ICE Out” activist training sessions. So I went undercover, using an alias, dressed up as a left-wing activist (or as close to one as I could envision, anyway), and infiltrated them both.
