{"id":46910,"date":"2026-08-15T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=46910"},"modified":"2026-08-15T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:05:35","slug":"shock-gloves-on-immigrants-trump-gifts-his-deportation-goons-cowardly-new-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=46910","title":{"rendered":"Shock gloves on immigrants? Trump gifts his deportation goons cowardly new tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>It\u2019s come to this: pain gloves. <\/p>\n<p>Just when President Trump\u2019s efforts to deport immigrants his administration deems not the right kind \u2014 and you\u2019re deluding yourself if you think it\u2019s all about legality \u2014 news came this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to spend up to <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2026-08-13\/shock-gloves-ice-plans-to-buy-bring-men-to-their-knees\">$20 million on electrically charged gloves<\/a> so that its agents can more easily subdue people. <\/p>\n<p>All they got to do is fiddle around on their gloves a la Iron Man to turn them on, place their hands on the local fruit lady or taco guy, and voil\u00e0! The person crumbles to the ground and gets hauled off to the hoosegow.<\/p>\n<p>The official notice announcing the planned purchase describe the equipment as \u201ca Conductive Distraction and De-escalation Device,\u201d but let\u2019s call it what it is:<\/p>\n<p>Pain gloves. And: Cowardly.<\/p>\n<p>The malicious mitts are just one item in the shopping cart of a xenophobic spending spree that the Trump administration can indulge in thanks in a new budget for immigration enforcement <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2026-06-05\/senate-oks-70b-immigration-bill-after-rejecting-efforts-to-permanently-ban-trumps-settlement-fund\">approved by Congress this June<\/a> that exceeds the military spending of most countries. In August alone, a toxic alphabet soup of agencies \u2014 ICE, CBP, HSI, CIS and others \u2014 put out notices that they plan to spend up to $1.8 billion to shore themselves up.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/apfs-cloud.dhs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Included in the wish list<\/a>: $3 million on 9 mm Luger ammunition and $2 million for Glock pistols and accompanying modifications; $1 million for the renovation and rental of indoor firing ranges; $2 million in defibrillators. Over $100 million toward \u201cNonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation\u201d just for immigrants who choose to self-deport. Over $300 million for new Border Patrol stations to replace three existing ones in Texas. A five-year contract worth up to $50 million to create Border Patrol propaganda \u201cacross various media channels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And just in case any of this weighs on the hearts and minds of Border Patrol higher-ups, the agency wants to spend up to $1 million for \u201cfour quarterly, five-day wellness workshops\u201d at its headquarters emphasizing \u201cnutrition, sleep hygiene, stress management\u201d and other mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>May I suggest a workshop on growing a conscience? Maybe one on how not to crash out when protesters or witnesses <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-11-25\/memo-torres-daily-memo-la-taco\">pull out a phone to shoot video<\/a>, as is their constitutional right? Or how about a PowerPoint presentation simply called \u201cHow Not to Act Like a Goon With a Badge\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>So now that pain gloves are on the menu, what\u2019s next for Trump\u2019s deportation deluge? Uniforms that sprouts porcupine quills at the tug of a collar? Spider-Man web-slinging capabilities? Magneto-type helmets so activists can\u2019t read the minds of <i>la migra<\/i>? (Actually, that\u2019s kind of happening: ICE wants to spend up to $1 million in helmets for a new tactical team called DAGr, which also wants $1 million to buy night vision goggles.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery decision is made with careful consideration and appropriately reviewed to make sure that any technology ICE utilizes is consistent with all applicable law enforcement policies and standards,\u201d <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2026-08-13\/shock-gloves-ice-plans-to-buy-bring-men-to-their-knees\">Homeland Security told the Times<\/a> in justifying the gloves, which its makers caution shouldn\u2019t be used on children, pregnant women or folks with heart conditions. \u201cOur officers are highly trained in de-escalation techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me while I collapse \u2014 not from some <i>migra<\/i> man buzzing me with their new toy, but from laughter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"enhancement\" data-click=\"enhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<figure class=\"figure m-0\"> <picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/88edec3\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/320x213!\/format\/webp\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg 320w,https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/09c5748\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/568x379!\/format\/webp\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg 568w,https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/cd21804\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/768x512!\/format\/webp\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg 768w,https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/ffb6010\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/1024x683!\/format\/webp\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg 1024w,https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/27a0f88\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/format\/webp\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><img class=\"image\" alt=\"President Donald Trump\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/65b9bf0\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/320x213!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg 320w,https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/2cc9fda\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/568x379!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg 568w,https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/6f42e7f\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/768x512!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg 768w,https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/a8ab5ec\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/1024x683!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg 1024w,https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/1a6a4f8\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/1a6a4f8\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F28%2Fc547d5834907adba8cfbcf8885d0%2Ftrump-biden-immigration-snub-92431.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/picture>\n<div class=\"figure-content\">\n<p>In this Jan. 12, 2021, file photo, President Donald Trump tours a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Alamo, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>(Alex Brandon\/Associated Press)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Trump has spent all of his second term trying to equip and fashion immigration agents as a new warrior class, and they have responded accordingly. His wannabe Robocops <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-07-08\/macarthur-park-immigration-sweep-photo-opp\">launch indiscriminate raids<\/a>, operate detention facilities <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-08-01\/adelanto-ice-detainees-say-poor-conditions-persist-despite-court-order\">under conditions out of a Dickens novel<\/a> and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-03-04\/california-ice-mask-ban-deal\">regularly don face masks<\/a> to hide their identities. <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-07-31\/tonk-anti-immigrant-border-patrol\">They toss out racial slurs to ridicule detainees<\/a> the way the rest of us use nouns, threaten bystanders with guns for looking at them funny and even arrest American citizens who they think got in their way or they mistook for someone in the country illegally. <\/p>\n<p>But this tyrannical posturing reminds me not of some low-rent X-Men film but rather Syndrome, the villain in the Pixar classic \u201cThe Incredibles.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The dweeb so desperately wanted to be a superhero that he launches a war against real ones in order to turn their powers into weapons he then sells to a gullible public. Syndrome eventually captures the animated film\u2019s titular Mr. Incredible and tells him how he\u2019s going to unleash a monster on a city so Syndrome can save residents and thus earn the public accolades he so desperately wanted to receive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be a bigger hero than you ever were!\u201d Syndrome boasts to Mr. Incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Spoiler alert: He wasn\u2019t. And neither will Trump\u2019s borderlands berzerkers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite more immigrants being arrested in July than any other month in Homeland Security\u2019s history, good Americans refuse to submit to Trump\u2019s roundup reverie. That gets him and his agents mad. The man who orders monuments to himself like a North Korean dictator only thinks he\u2019s a king \u2014 or a God \u2014 but the cruelty Trump is willing to unleash is all too real. <\/p>\n<p>And, always, beware tyrants who are scared. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why those electrified gloves that ICE want are so telling.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an acknowledgment that agents can\u2019t effectively do their job. It shows how the Trump administration really thinks anyone who opposes them is little better than livestock in need of a cattle prod. It\u2019s a bully confessing that he\u2019s scared. <\/p>\n<p>God knows, Trump must have gotten an advance order of the pain gloves for his itty bitty hands almost two years ago the way he\u2019s been inflicting hurt and ignominy on our country ever since. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the coward\u2019s way. It\u2019s cruel and juvenile. And Americans best take heed of a manchild president and his band of thugs at all levels of government who embody that line from \u201cKing Lear\u201d: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s come to this: pain gloves. 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