Some European far-right parties and politicians have sparked a backlash by calling for a police force in their countries resembling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ICE, which enforces federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration, has been mired in controversy after its agents killed two U.S. citizens in recent weeks, amid a push by the Trump administration to deport unauthorized immigrants.
That has not deterred the Bavarian branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Belgian far-right Vlaams Belang party from proposing police units that resemble ICE, in calls that have stoked an outcry from political opponents.
In January, the Bavarian arm of the AfD said it would put forward plans in regional parliament for a police unit focused on deporting immigrants who have entered the country illegally, as part of an array of steps to curb unauthorized immigration, according to an internal party document reported by German media.
“In addition to state-run deportation flights, we are calling for the creation of an asylum, investigation, and deportation unit within the Bavarian police,” the AfD parliamentary group leader Katrin Ebner-Steiner said. The Bavarian Police Union said there is no legal basis for a deportation unit.
Belgium’s Vlaams Belang plans to submit a proposal for a similar police unit in the coming days. While MP Francesca Van Belleghem rejected the comparison with ICE because, she said, the Belgian unit would remain part of the existing police and not a separate federal agency, the details of the plan suggest otherwise: Specialized officers in every police zone, full units in major cities and border areas, and agents actively hunting unauthorized immigrants.
“Instead of only registering illegal immigrants when they are caught by chance, the unit would actively search for persons without legal status,” Van Belleghem told POLITICO, adding: “We do not allow our national proposals to be dictated by the international context.”
In France, meanwhile, far-right firebrand and Reconquête party founder Éric Zemmour did not rule out the idea when asked in a TV interview whether France should have a police force similar to ICE. “It would need to be adapted to France and to French institutions. But we’ll have to be ruthless,” Zemmour told BFMTV.
Political scientist Laura Jacobs from the University of Antwerp said that some far-right parties are careful and avoid association with Trump as it could hurt their image, but “are indeed referring to [a] similar police force.”
potatolulz on
but we already had the Sturmabteilung in Europe, didn’t work out all that great for Europe. Didn’t work out great for the members of the Sturmabteilung either tbh 😀
Adorable-Database187 on
Are these the ones supporting Putin, or the ones supported by trump?
frissio on
The plan from the European far-right to copy the American Far-Right was likely planned for a longtime, groups such as the Heritage Foundation are still targetting Europe. This collusion has been well known for a while now.
That being said, several botched policies including ICE being vile beyond any capacity to justify them (and many have tried) as well as diplomatic crises like with the American threat to Greenland and the EU (where the European Far-Right either had to condemn the Americans or stay silent or even try to justify it and take the popularity hit) has disrupted that timetable.
Some like the AfD and the Belgian Far-right seem like they are still going to try however.
StrangerConscious637 on
# European far-right parties push for Gestapo-like police
Plane_Willingness_25 on
I welcome the fact that far-right EU parties are hitching their political and ideological wagon to the failing Trump project
VLamperouge on
I mean, we now know for a fact that there exists an international organised far right, so it’s not a surprise that every right wing party wants the same kind of authoritarian repressive and mass surveillance regime.
ASuarezMascareno on
The worst parties in Europe are desperate to copy the worst aspects of the worst first first world country.
Fucking no.
BottleForsaken9200 on
Isn’t this “incitement to violence”?
More-Dragonfly-6387 on
They can go fuck themselves
jkewow on
No thanks. Been voting right (Moderaterna) in four elections so far here in Sweden, 2026 will be the first election the left gets my vote. This shit cannot go on, and the right wing extremist movement needs to be stopped.
I urge everyone (maybe temporarily) to shift their focus from personal gains to help in stopping this from developing further. May it be higher taxes, or something else – it means nothing if we let the fascists take over.
Rethink what you vote for, what you have today might be gone in matter of months.
BaziJoeWHL on
we had Nyilaskeresztesek (Arrow Cross Party/People) once, we dont need them anymore
LurkingWeirdo88 on
So they want to expand EUs executive power over nation states, by forming federal police?
Commonmispelingbot on
Yeah, we already tried that.
Dramatic-Border3549 on
Didn’t they have one until decades ago? It was called Gestapo, I think
Broken_chairs on
Are these the European far right parties that are *checks notes* being funded by Trump? Shocking…
Fit_Fisherman_9840 on
Fascist parties want Fascist style police, next news water wet and they are in the epstein files as foreign agents.
Plg_Rex on
Jeez, is politico.eu just a continental version of the Daily Mail? They’re leveling up as rage-bait merchants
djazzie on
Haha, here in France, the CRS will already beat the shit out of you and haul you away to unknown places if you’re brown, no suspicious activity required. So no need for an extra police force to do that.
zangdfil on
We also have Frontex, which is litteraly ICE but in Europe. An ex director of ICE is now in the french far right party National Rally (patriot for europe) and if them, their party, and the rest of the EU Far right get into power they will totally push people to militarize Frontex.
They will also turn a blind eye on all the atrocities they might commit (and they already did some in the mediteranean sea) saying this is “for the good of our citizens”…
pablocael on
Fuck no.
Top_Guarantee4519 on
The ‘We are not nazis!’ parties sure love to act like nazis.
Harold-The-Barrel on
“Here’s why it’s actually the left’s fault!”
gmxgmx on
I don’t understand the point of modeling a deportation unit after ICE specifically, as I’m sure most EU countries have their own functional equivalents, but certainly in Ireland we need something more effective, because at present deportation is _voluntary!_
If you’re found to be here illegally, you’ll be sent a letter in the post asking you nicely to leave. Seriously.
(There are exceptional cases where people are escorted out from the state however)
Riad Bouchaker, who a few years ago [went on a stabbing spree in a primary school](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67783903) was served two voluntary self-deportation orders in his time here, which he just decided to ignore as there’s no consequences, and a few years after ignoring these _he was awarded citizenship_. He then went on to commit serious atrocity
We don’t want something as amateurish and wreckless as ICE but we _do_ want something
Johannes_P on
I wonder if AfD want this new force dressed by Hugo Boss or if Reconquête want to reuse the uniforms worn by the Darnand boys.
ArchitectNebulous on
From America. It is a bad idea. Don’t. Please.
punarob on
It’s Gestapo-style, but politico in the US is trash too
Unlikely_Aside5006 on
We did have that once. Didn’t go so well
olewolf on
It’s almost as if far-right regimes like fascism.
Saddest-Sloth on
Here’s a better idea… Anyone supporting such unlawful actions should be banned from politics.
Sqweech on
Round up those right wingers and drop them in Houthi controlled Yemen.
US should do the same with theirs.
MapDiscombobulated1 on
They can fuck right off
Hitching-galaxy on
ICE aren’t police – so they mean, unaccountable criminal thugs doing the corrupt leaders’ bidding
Witte-666 on
Their base also would prefer to live under a “strong leader” aka a dictator, which says enough.
Emergency_Link7328 on
There we go. Brown shirts roaming our streets.
We need to take the issue seriously. Before our lives become a living hell. Again.
Feuertotem on
Just go to Russia please. They will send most of you to a nice gulag or the front of course, but one of you will win the tea or window lottery and be their token German to parad around.
Wait a minute, that’s already Gerhard Schröder. Gulag it is.
36 Comments
Some European far-right parties and politicians have sparked a backlash by calling for a police force in their countries resembling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ICE, which enforces federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration, has been mired in controversy after its agents killed two U.S. citizens in recent weeks, amid a push by the Trump administration to deport unauthorized immigrants.
That has not deterred the Bavarian branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Belgian far-right Vlaams Belang party from proposing police units that resemble ICE, in calls that have stoked an outcry from political opponents.
In January, the Bavarian arm of the AfD said it would put forward plans in regional parliament for a police unit focused on deporting immigrants who have entered the country illegally, as part of an array of steps to curb unauthorized immigration, according to an internal party document reported by German media.
“In addition to state-run deportation flights, we are calling for the creation of an asylum, investigation, and deportation unit within the Bavarian police,” the AfD parliamentary group leader Katrin Ebner-Steiner said. The Bavarian Police Union said there is no legal basis for a deportation unit.
Belgium’s Vlaams Belang plans to submit a proposal for a similar police unit in the coming days. While MP Francesca Van Belleghem rejected the comparison with ICE because, she said, the Belgian unit would remain part of the existing police and not a separate federal agency, the details of the plan suggest otherwise: Specialized officers in every police zone, full units in major cities and border areas, and agents actively hunting unauthorized immigrants.
“Instead of only registering illegal immigrants when they are caught by chance, the unit would actively search for persons without legal status,” Van Belleghem told POLITICO, adding: “We do not allow our national proposals to be dictated by the international context.”
In France, meanwhile, far-right firebrand and Reconquête party founder Éric Zemmour did not rule out the idea when asked in a TV interview whether France should have a police force similar to ICE. “It would need to be adapted to France and to French institutions. But we’ll have to be ruthless,” Zemmour told BFMTV.
Political scientist Laura Jacobs from the University of Antwerp said that some far-right parties are careful and avoid association with Trump as it could hurt their image, but “are indeed referring to [a] similar police force.”
but we already had the Sturmabteilung in Europe, didn’t work out all that great for Europe. Didn’t work out great for the members of the Sturmabteilung either tbh 😀
Are these the ones supporting Putin, or the ones supported by trump?
The plan from the European far-right to copy the American Far-Right was likely planned for a longtime, groups such as the Heritage Foundation are still targetting Europe. This collusion has been well known for a while now.
That being said, several botched policies including ICE being vile beyond any capacity to justify them (and many have tried) as well as diplomatic crises like with the American threat to Greenland and the EU (where the European Far-Right either had to condemn the Americans or stay silent or even try to justify it and take the popularity hit) has disrupted that timetable.
Some like the AfD and the Belgian Far-right seem like they are still going to try however.
# European far-right parties push for Gestapo-like police
I welcome the fact that far-right EU parties are hitching their political and ideological wagon to the failing Trump project
I mean, we now know for a fact that there exists an international organised far right, so it’s not a surprise that every right wing party wants the same kind of authoritarian repressive and mass surveillance regime.
The worst parties in Europe are desperate to copy the worst aspects of the worst first first world country.
Fucking no.
Isn’t this “incitement to violence”?
They can go fuck themselves
No thanks. Been voting right (Moderaterna) in four elections so far here in Sweden, 2026 will be the first election the left gets my vote. This shit cannot go on, and the right wing extremist movement needs to be stopped.
I urge everyone (maybe temporarily) to shift their focus from personal gains to help in stopping this from developing further. May it be higher taxes, or something else – it means nothing if we let the fascists take over.
Rethink what you vote for, what you have today might be gone in matter of months.
we had Nyilaskeresztesek (Arrow Cross Party/People) once, we dont need them anymore
So they want to expand EUs executive power over nation states, by forming federal police?
Yeah, we already tried that.
Didn’t they have one until decades ago? It was called Gestapo, I think
Are these the European far right parties that are *checks notes* being funded by Trump? Shocking…
Fascist parties want Fascist style police, next news water wet and they are in the epstein files as foreign agents.
Jeez, is politico.eu just a continental version of the Daily Mail? They’re leveling up as rage-bait merchants
Haha, here in France, the CRS will already beat the shit out of you and haul you away to unknown places if you’re brown, no suspicious activity required. So no need for an extra police force to do that.
We also have Frontex, which is litteraly ICE but in Europe. An ex director of ICE is now in the french far right party National Rally (patriot for europe) and if them, their party, and the rest of the EU Far right get into power they will totally push people to militarize Frontex.
They will also turn a blind eye on all the atrocities they might commit (and they already did some in the mediteranean sea) saying this is “for the good of our citizens”…
Fuck no.
The ‘We are not nazis!’ parties sure love to act like nazis.
“Here’s why it’s actually the left’s fault!”
I don’t understand the point of modeling a deportation unit after ICE specifically, as I’m sure most EU countries have their own functional equivalents, but certainly in Ireland we need something more effective, because at present deportation is _voluntary!_
If you’re found to be here illegally, you’ll be sent a letter in the post asking you nicely to leave. Seriously.
(There are exceptional cases where people are escorted out from the state however)
Riad Bouchaker, who a few years ago [went on a stabbing spree in a primary school](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67783903) was served two voluntary self-deportation orders in his time here, which he just decided to ignore as there’s no consequences, and a few years after ignoring these _he was awarded citizenship_. He then went on to commit serious atrocity
We don’t want something as amateurish and wreckless as ICE but we _do_ want something
I wonder if AfD want this new force dressed by Hugo Boss or if Reconquête want to reuse the uniforms worn by the Darnand boys.
From America. It is a bad idea. Don’t. Please.
It’s Gestapo-style, but politico in the US is trash too
We did have that once. Didn’t go so well
It’s almost as if far-right regimes like fascism.
Here’s a better idea… Anyone supporting such unlawful actions should be banned from politics.
Round up those right wingers and drop them in Houthi controlled Yemen.
US should do the same with theirs.
They can fuck right off
ICE aren’t police – so they mean, unaccountable criminal thugs doing the corrupt leaders’ bidding
Their base also would prefer to live under a “strong leader” aka a dictator, which says enough.
There we go. Brown shirts roaming our streets.
We need to take the issue seriously. Before our lives become a living hell. Again.
Just go to Russia please. They will send most of you to a nice gulag or the front of course, but one of you will win the tea or window lottery and be their token German to parad around.
Wait a minute, that’s already Gerhard Schröder. Gulag it is.