ICE Arrests MS-13 Fentanyl Trafficker in Providence, RI and Local Officials Worry Police May Have Assisted
“The presence of Providence Police officers next to ICE agents during the detainment has deeply disturbed the community.”
ICE arrested a member of the notorious MS-13 gang who was trafficking the deadly drug fentanyl in Providence, Rhode Island, on Sunday. Mayor Brett Smiley and the head of the city council held a press conference where they expressed concern about the possibility that the police might have assisted ICE in the arrest. They didn’t.
This is beyond crazy. Democrats increasingly look like they believe illegal aliens are their main constituency. How else are people supposed to see this?
WPRI News reports:
Providence police released body-worn camera video from one of officers that responded to a car crash involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
ICE pursued a suspect and ended up outside of a home on Alverson Avenue to try and arrest a known MS-13 gang member in Providence on Sunday. ICE spokesperson James Covington told 12 News the agency arrested Ivan Rene Mendoza Meza, 27, a Honduran national who Covington said is “a self-admitted member of MS-13” in his home country…
On Tuesday, 10 members of the Providence City Council called on the Providence External Review Authority — a civilian oversight board that looks into allegations of police misconduct — to review the incident.
“The presence of Providence Police officers next to ICE agents during the detainment has deeply disturbed the community,” city councilors wrote to Perez in a letter…
Mayor Brett Smiley characterized the incident as “complex,” but said that the incident remains under review.
“I’m interested in making sure that our community knows that Providence police are there to protect them, that they will not cooperate or sere as immigration agents, and that preliminarily, we believe that policy was followed in that instance, although it certainly was jarring video that I saw,” Smiley said at an unrelated news conference on Tuesday. “But upon closer review and understanding the full context of the circumstance, it feels like… it seems like at the initial outset, that Providence police acted in accordance with our existing policy.”
See the video below:
An MS-13 fentanyl trafficker was just arrested in Providence, Rhode Island.
The mayor and city council president are pledging to investigate…
Not the MS-13 problem, but to ensure police didn’t assist ICE in arresting him.
Totally insane. pic.twitter.com/rOT664NaRb
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 16, 2025
A state lawmaker also chimed in, calling ICE agents the gestapo.
'ACT OF TERROR': Progressive Rhode Island lawmaker @EnriqueForRI unleashes heinous "Nazi Gestapo" insult at @ICEgov after agents arrested his "neighbor," but officials turn the tables on the far-left representative with a brutal reality check. The violent illegal alien taken into… pic.twitter.com/TYVU1kVg0d
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 15, 2025
This is a Rhode Island Democratic state rep who called ICE “Nazi Gestapo thugs” for “kidnapping” a “neighbor” in Providence, RI in what he described as an “act of terror”.
The “neighbor” turned out to be Honduran MS-13 gang member w/ pending fentanyl trafficking charges in RI. https://t.co/Cz2sgtto5g
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 15, 2025
In related news, the Democrats have now dropped to a stunning 19 percent approval rating.
Democratic Party Approval Rating
🟢 Approve: 19% (-53)
🔴 Disapprove: 72%Quinnipiac | July 10-14 | 1,290 RV pic.twitter.com/rD1q7p0h90
— OSZ (@OpenSourceZone) July 16, 2025
If Democrats want to drive that number down further, they should continue appearing to care more about criminals in the country illegally than they do about American citizens.
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Here’s a little more on that Rhode Island Demorat state rep….
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/01/enrique-sanchezs-criminal-dui-charge-dropped-heres-why/82759235007/
“How else are people supposed to see this?”
There is no other way. Democrats are the party of crime and treason. Period. More and more I am becoming convinced that the “Adam Selene” solution may be necessary. Note: “May”. For the moment…
Look up the grave stone of Nathaniel Grigsby. He had their number 150 years ago.
That he did. RIP, Lieutenant.
I have seen a replica of this stone in a cemetery near the junction of US 421 and I-77 in North Carolina while searching for some long dead ancestors of my wife’s. No luck with the ancestors but this same marker was duplicated in the middle of the grounds.
The Democrat party has devolved into not just organized crime but an anti America ‘fifth column’. Moderate – Lib Dems are going to have to choose- their party or America. It will be a struggle for them when it doesn’t have to be.
There are no moderate dramacrats. If you’re a moderate you would have left the party long ago as I and others have.
The mayor is another leftwing, queer freak, who like Buttigieg and Macron, is married to a man. How do people vote these mental cases in?
There should be no surprise here. These are the voters who elected and re-elected Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.
Any questions?
I was born and raised in RI. It was way ahead of the curve, already leftarded when I left the state in 1990.
RI, with just over 1 mil in population, has, according to the statistical norm, 200,000 too many registered voters.
It’s blamed on people moving or dieing and not being removed from the voting lists.
That leaves a WIDE margin of influence, ripe for anyone with blank ballots to fill in the names of people they know aren’t going to complain.
That in my opinion, explains how Shelly Whitehouse is in congress. It’s got to be voter corruption.
If only the dealer had been coming out of church from a Latin mass. Then the city would have been OK with the local cops helping
Maybe we can convince MS13 members and other illegals to pray outside abortion clinics; the Left would clamor to lock them up, in that case.
Maybe we can convince MS13 members and others to move to Rhode Island where they would be the prime beneficiaries/priorities of state and local governments instead of what RI considers to be “icky” Americans.
Subotai Bahadur
Makes sense. After all, MS-13 is an alternative to abortion.
So, it looks like the stupid communist would rather have people selling poison into their community than to have that person removed and sent back to where they belong
yes it is a big concern when good decent humans dont want leftist punks destroying lives
good lord throw these leftists into the gutter already
police are there to protect them
No, they aren’t. Not in any rational interpretation of “protect.” The Supreme Court said so a long time ago, and the policies of police and city councils demonstrate otherwise.
See Riss v New York, Warren v District of Columbia, others…
The Supreme Court and other courts have ruled that police have no duty for special protection to individuals.
The police still have a duty to protect the community in general.
When combined with the observation that if everybody owns something, nobody owns it, it’s just another brick in the wall of ensuring that no individual government employee can ever be punished for anything
The idea of “no duty to protect an individual” is based more on the fact that if you pull police off of general policing duty to protect one person, that puts more people at risk.
We can argue the thinking behind that, and I certainly understand your point, but how far can police resources be stretched if every citizen claims a need for special protection?
The problem I see is that governments say ” you are not entitled to individual protection,” and then in the next breath say that a person cannot defend themselves.
Where does a citizen go then?
You just essentially quoted Judge Keating’s dissent in Riss v New York.
GWB:
In reality (as opposed to where the collectivists live) the police are there to protect the criminals from the vigilante justice that would otherwise be meted out to them.
When the police cease to function as they’re beginning to in many major Dem-wing (i.e., Communist/Fascist) controlled cities, the reaction will be both terrible and utterly predictable. “Justice” will be delivered by the victims of the crimes, starting with property crimes. The criminals will be found with shattered knees and elbows, or hamstrung at the wrists and ankles, and left on the streets for the police to finally deal with them as “victims”. As the police start to refuse to respond to attacks on persons and occupied homes the vigilante system will ratchet upward with the police decline. Many criminals will simply disappear (the “three Ess’es) while others will turn up mysteriously dead.
Eventually all crimes will potentially carry the death penalty, as people refuse to be victims of our new multi-tiered legal system.
Note that I am NOT advocating this, simply predicting it. And it appears to me that this is the actual desire of the left-wing/Dem-wing/collectivist/statist/authoritarians, so that they can then claim the moral high ground as they eliminate the rights of their citizens to life, liberty, and property.
I don’t disagree with you. The downside of victims protecting themselves is that they will be victimized a second time, and that is by the government. I have sometimes read about homeowners who have shot intruders into their homes who are then arrested and incarcerated. It’s almost as if the system wants to serve and protect the perps, not the law-abiding citizens.
correct
b/c the law abiders HAVE THE MONEY AND THE POWER
so its just another means of wealth/power transfer
thats how prisons are run
its always going to come back to
you need to defend yourselves
and if you can organize with your neighbors to stop a mob…all the better
b/c as the left /dems have proven from day 1
They will run the death camps with great honour
If the Democrat Party was on the payroll of the drug cartels, what would they to differently?
They’d be less obvious about it.
“Enrique” sides with races over laws
RI was run way better under the Mafia.
Photo captions could improve the reader experience tremendously.
The headline is about an arrested fentanyl trafficker.
The lead photo is of the Providence mayor, with no explanation.
He dresses spiffy for an MS-13 trafficker.
Just conjecture here, but given the Providence government’s obsession with protecting the arrested fentanyl trafficker, and the propensity for politicians to be on the take [you yourself mentioned that RI was once run by the Mafia]; is there not a non-negligible chance that said mayor might not be financially involved with the fentanyl traffickers chain of command?
Subotai Bahadur
They’re disturbed because a criminal illegal alien selling deadly drugs was arrested and removed from their community? Beyond insanity and it makes you wonder whose side their people are on.
Alternate headline: “Arrest of Business Partner Gives Democrat State Representative the Sadz”