Wake the hell up everybody! (Throws a bucket of ice water.) Yes, I know it’s past midnight in the east, I get it, but I just picked up this clip in Ron Filipkowski’s feed and the source quoted is a national correspondent for Fox News, based in Los Angeles. So unless the world has gone more Upside DownUnder than even the yous and mes are used to, this is a legitimate happening in the wee hours of October 27, 2025. Sweet Jesus on a bagel, this is the last thing I expected to read tonight.
Holy shit. Wow. Midnight massacre at ICE. https://t.co/VPoSVdHxyr
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 28, 2025
Here’s the entire tweet (broken into paragraphs so you can read it easily. No, I did not have time to engage thread reader software, we’ll do what we can with what we have on hand.)
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I’m told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino.
I’m told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in: – Los Angeles – Phoenix – Philadelphia – Denver – El Paso – San Diego – Seattle/Portland – New Orleans
Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I’ve done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both. Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.
Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we’ve seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.
ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called “ICE”. I’m told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.
I’m told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the “worst of the worst” or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump’s promises of mass deportations.
I am hearing from both sides of this friction. One senior DHS official tells me: “ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we’ve (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It’s getting numbers, but at what cost?”. Border Patrol agents I’ve talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me: “What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst?
Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table.” It’s quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there. Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.Â
Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio:Â “While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country.”
Homan might be on his way out.
Also, it looks like Trump wants ICE to be MORE aggressive and SS like. https://t.co/CAwB35gaTU pic.twitter.com/n62OLAfS2l— Former Republican 🇺🇸 (@Sjacobs2020) October 28, 2025
So far Twitter is a flaming mess of tweets but the gist of the conflict, from what I can see, is now distilled here. And more details will be breaking.
Who knows what brought about this internecine squabbling? That’s the part of the picture I’m looking for now but it’s likely buried under a lot of layers of incompetence, nepotism, wishful thinking, and ICE funding being on the moon to begin with and then increasing exponentially — while the qualifications necessary to get hired by ICE just sort of evaporated last week.
Follow the money is always a sound principle, an indispensable one in politics. And ICE and immigration are the centerpieces for this administration. Some broom is sweeping clean right now. Whether it’s an old broom, new broom, or a witch on a broom is the part we don’t know. But the more we find out who the players are, the more evident it will all be.
Let’s see how high up the food chain this goes. Let’s see if Stephen Miller is affected. Personally? Everything I know about Corey Lewandowski tells me he would topple Miller in a heartbeat and he’s got Kristi Noem to help him.
So could Russ Vought save Miller? Or, would it be more propitious for him if he sacrificed Miller?
Stay tuned. It’s going to get a lot crazier before the dust settles and we see what’s really going on.
a little math, which soneone at dhs probably also did. i have no idea hoe many people are being grabbed everyday but try this. if they are arresting 10,000 deportable people every day that’s 1,000,000 every 100 days.they say there are 20,000,000 or more in the country. catching 10,000,000 would take 1000 days, let’s say 3 years. 20,000,000 would take 6 years. the people at the top probably really don’t like that schedule. even though they put the quota at 3k per day they were too stupid to realize what thst actually meant. i’m not sure these kind of numbers are actualky doable but i’m guessing they’re going to make one hell of a mess trying. they will have to hit these kind of numbersif they want to stop seeing brown people on our streets i’m betting they will start large scale deportations of everyone they can find including citizens. they were probably really set off by recent reports that catch and release pending hearing was still occuring. not to mention arresting hispanic citizens then letting them go to talk to the press.