Gavin Newsom Compares ICE Agents to Nazi ‘Secret Police’
“But I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany. Those first images came out of my state.”
Governor Gavin Newsom dramatically escalated his confrontation with federal immigration authorities this week by invoking imagery associated with Nazi Germany while condemning enforcement operations in Los Angeles.
In remarks made at the 2026 Munich Security Conference, Newsom said:
While in Germany, Gavin Newsom smears American law enforcement officers by comparing them to Nazis.
NEWSOM: "Masked men, secret police, something familiar in Germany."
Disgraceful. pic.twitter.com/R1sObuPDky
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 14, 2026
“But I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany. Those first images came out of my state, the second-largest city in the United States of America. We saw 4,000 National Guard members federalized for the first time. We never seen anything like this, and 700 active duty Marines sent, not overseas, but to the second largest city in the United States of America, militarizing the streets of my city, masked men. Masked men showing up, unaccountable, no idea. IDs.”
The reference to “secret police” in Germany is widely understood as an allusion to the Gestapo. That comparison marks a significant escalation. Prior clashes between Sacramento and Washington focused on detainers, sanctuary laws, and federalism. This time, Newsom is escalating the framing of federal officers even further by not merely describing them as overreaching but as morally suspect.
His focus on masked officers has become central to that argument. Federal agents often wear face coverings during high-profile operations for security reasons, which Newsom portrays as intimidation and militarization.
The remarks come amid a long-running dispute between California and the Trump administration over immigration enforcement. President Trump has prioritized interior enforcement and detainer compliance, placing California in direct opposition to them.
The Department of Homeland Security has publicly urged California to honor federal detainer requests tied to criminal illegal aliens in custody.
As reported by Fox News, DHS stated:
“We are calling on Governor Newsom and his administration to commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the more than 33,000 criminal illegal aliens in California’s custody. It is common sense and vital for public safety. Criminal illegal aliens should not be released from jails back onto our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans.”
According to DHS, ICE currently has 33,179 active detainers for criminal illegal aliens in California facilities. Since January 20, 2025, thousands have been released after detainers were not honored.
Federal officials argue that noncompliance forces agents into riskier public arrests that could otherwise occur inside secure facilities. In describing a recent confrontation at the Ventura County Jail, DHS said:
“As law enforcement tried to transfer the illegal alien from the lobby to their custody, 15 agitators gathered outside the jail, surrounded the officers and attempted to prevent the arrest of this criminal. The agitators refused to follow law enforcement commands. During the confrontation, a female agitator physically assaulted a federal officer.”
Newsom has defended California’s posture, insisting the state cooperates with ICE in limited circumstances involving violent offenders while refusing broader participation in what his office characterizes as indiscriminate roundups. He has also confirmed California is pursuing litigation against the Trump administration over aspects of its enforcement strategy.
In announcing legal action, Newsom framed the dispute as constitutional:
“We’re suing the Trump administration over these reckless immigration enforcement actions. We will not allow federal agents to trample constitutional protections or turn our communities into militarized zones.”
Immigration enforcement is a federal power. States may limit voluntary cooperation, but they cannot obstruct lawful federal action.
This is no longer just a fight over detainers. By invoking imagery associated with Nazi-era secret police, Newsom has shifted the debate from policy disagreement to moral indictment. That shift is political. And it is intentional.
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Reductio ad Hitlerum is all this intellectual midget has to offer and he does it in the most disgusting and inappropriate manner possible.
ICE is enforcing long established but recently ignored federal laws. Ignored by loathsome democrats like Newsom and Biden.
Screw both of them.
I wish someone from our intrepid news media would ask him how he would handle the deportations of all the illegals!
“Aw… can’t we all get along together?”
Greasum Newscum: Deport illegals? Are you insane? They vote democrat and support our scams!
And I will compare Newsom to a patriotic American.
We are both wrong.
Newsom isn’t that ignorant. He’s just a liar. I don’t recall hearing that National Socialists attempted to return lost travelers to their homelands.
They did, actually. One of the first things they did was expel all Jews who were Polish citizens back to Poland. But Poland refused to accept them, since the pre-war Polish government was even more antisemitic than the German one, if such a thing is possible. So they languished in refugee camps on the border, both sides refusing to let them in.
Hitler’s original plan for the Jews was to deport them all back home to Palestine (as it was known at the time). After Amin al Husseini (Yasser Arafat’s uncle) joined his alliance and persuaded him not to send more Jews to their homeland, he came up with a plan to send them all to Madagascar.
The decision to kill them all was only made at the beginning of 1942, when Germany found itself with millions of Jews on its hands and was at war with most of the rest of the world, so there was nowhere that it could send them all.
Hitler wanted to be rid of the Jews one way or the other.
Even for the nazis you defend.
Is EVERY leftist so sacred that you cannot let any go undefended by Milhouse?
‘It wasn’t the nazis, it was the Poles!’ (nevermind that Poles were also put into camps)
‘It was everyone else, who wouldn’t accept Jews, it wasn’t Hitler’s fault, He just wanted them deported.’
In Hell a fire hotter than a billion suns awaits you, Milhouse, right next to the guy you’re defending.
Let him keep talking. He will destroy himself. There is no other politician in America that stands for less and is so easy to see through.
Greasy Newsolini is just another in a long line of appallingly stupid, dishonest, incompetent and vile Dhimmi-crat apparatchik-demagogues.
He is worse than worthless.
Interesting that the evil and wretched Dhimmi-crat are happy to exploit Jewish suffering and the unprecedented crimes of the Holocaust, in making manifestly offensive, inapposite and grotesque analogies, to slander ICE and conservatives, but, won’t actually say or do anything to protect contemporary American, European and Israeli Jews, from their genocidal, Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist allies, bedfellows and fellow travelers.
To the left, the Holocaust was never about Jews. The Jews just happened to be occupying the “oppressed” space on the Marxist chart, but they were just a placeholder. It could have been anyone in that box instead. That’s because to the left national differences don’t exist, everyone is the same as everyone else, so anything could happen to anyone. So now it’s the Jews who are occupying the space the Germans did then, and the “Palestinians” who are occupying the Jews’ space.
This idea that everyone is exactly the same is precisely what has led to antisemitism throughout history. People who have this idea get annoyed at the Jews’ insistence that we are different from everyone else. As Haman complained “There is one nation, scattered and separated throughout your kingdom, whose laws are different from everyone else’s, and who don’t keep Your Majesty’s laws, and it’s not worth it to Your Majesty to let them be.”
Barf.
Can we stop calling anyone but actual nazis, nazis? It has lost all meaning.
The “Palestinians” are actual nazis. Their goal is not a second Holocaust but to finish the first one, that was so rudely interrupted in 1945.
The Palestinians are NOT nazis.
National Socialism has nothing to do with what they’re doing.
Their hatred of Jews comes from the Quran.
Golly, next you’re going to say the demonrats (calling everyone who challenges their anti-white crusade as racist) has lost relevance.
Were the Gestapo ever masked?! I’ve never heard that, and can’t imagine why they would have wanted to be. They were the “secret state police”, but not in the sense that their identities were unknown. After all, members surely had nothing to fear from their neighbors or the public. As Yakov Smirnoff might put it, “In Germany, you are afraid of the secret police; in America, the secret police are afraid of you”.
As for uniformed and armed servicemen on the street, of course Germans are familiar with that. Not from the 1930s, but from today. So are people in most countries, including NYC, LA, and DC, at least since 2001.
And of course everyone, everywhere in the world, is used to having people arrested. I’m not aware of anywhere in the world where arresting people is not a thing. I guess Antarctica.
If what Newsom says was correct, he would be among the first to “disappear” from public life…with extreme prejudice. Since, alas, he hasn’t, this is proof he is full of s*hit.
The gestapo did not wear masks. The governor is an ignoramus who knows only that nazis were very bad and that mask wearing, other than by Covid Karens and Antifa trannies, is a scary right wing thing.
Nazi secret police that aren’t so nazi secret police?
Chairman Newsom has officially joined the Marxists with his Boilsheviks 1941 propaganda.
What the left does best. Performative Ignorance. Refusing to understand. Purposely obtuse. You can’t even talk to these people.
I still haven’t seen any real response to Newsom calling Trump an “invasive species”. If anything deserves a comparison to the Nazis it’s Newsom.
https://x.com/bluecollardad73/status/2023107692190179539?s=46
Do you have any source for this other than this obviously AI-generated video?
Indeed I do.
https://x.com/bluecollardad73/status/1988046826021548436?s=46
If we were actually living under a fascist regime, Newsom would already be behind barbed wire and using mud for hair gel.
And all of “Stinky” Soros & Sons’ paid protestors would be leaving the places they were bussed into, to protest, in pine boxes.
While it’s so easy to compare Newscum to a greasy cockroach.
As a student of WWII history, Europe and Pacific, Newscum has zero understanding of said history. I’ll guarantee that he has never read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”. What the nazis believed and acted upon are right there for the reader to be made fully aware. If he did read it then he is converting for antifa. They are the brown shirts that brought the nazis to power. They are the communist agitators. While it may seem antithetical that both are the same. They are. Both were and are dictatorial philosophies. One man control with a genocidal bent. Stalin starved millions to death to bring the farmers to heel. He was just as ruthless in putting people in gulags to be worked to death. The difference is that the nazis made an industry of genocide. When I hear and read about demonrats calling Republicans nazi’s it really makes my blood boil. And don’t forget for 4 generations the USSR called anyone not a communist a revanchist nazi and taught that in schools.
The concentration camps were in “populated” areas eventually freed from the Germans… the Gulags were far removed. Innocent people forced into expendable slave labor and no one could save them…. until Stalin died.
The difference between the USSR and the Third Reich was like the difference between the Calabrian and Sicilian mafias, or between the Bloods and the Crips. They were enemies not because of any ideological difference but because they were competitors. From the victims’ point of view there was very little to pick and choose between them, unless you were Jewish in which case the one that at that time happened not to be massacring you was a better choice than the one that was.
Don’t ever expect Newsom to say something that requires original thinking or reflection. He’s lazy, except when it comes to his hair and even then it’s the goop that does the work.
To the Dems’ and Newsom’s own NKVD… everything else looks Nazi and Gestapo.
If we really had secret police, Newsom would be in a concentration camp.
Newsome is a disgusting turd and rightly should be homeless on the San Franciso streets with the other poop.
God help us all if any of the mental democratic midgets in Munich end up as president of this country.