ICE Barbie Sued Over Tear-Gas Stunt for MAGA Influencers

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Updated Dec. 8 2025 8:19AM EST
Published Dec. 8 2025 7:31AM EST


The Trump administration has been sued over claims federal agents harmed families by firing chemical agents near an apartment building as part of an attempt by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to impress conservative influencers.

Since the summer, the use of force by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has escalated around a federal facility in Portland, Oregon, with the deployment of tear gas, pepper balls, and chaotic tactics that even hit peaceful crowds. A new lawsuit alleges that their use has affected residents living near the facility.


A resident of the Gray's Landing apartment building directly across the street from the Portland Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility shields his eyes as officers confront protesters on June 19, 2025.
Jan Sonnenmair/Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images


The complaint, filed Dec. 5 by REACH Community Development and nine residents of Gray’s Landing in Portland, Oregon, argues that, for the past six months, federal agents have “indiscriminately deploy[ed tear gas], smoke grenades, pepper balls, and other chemical agents in mass volume,” with fumes that “seep through windows and vents, accumulate in hallways and bedrooms, and bind to walls, carpets, clothing, furniture, and children’s toys.”

It details yellow gas clouds, persistent coughs, burning eyes and throats, dizziness, and headaches. Some deployments were “not to address any real danger,” according to the complaint, but to ”put on a show for conservative ‘influencers’” who had been invited by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS to the ICE facility “to film the protests for propaganda purposes.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-sued-over-dhs-tear-gas-stunt-for-maga-influencers-in-portland-oregon/

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Link to SUIT (PDF) - here

[Attilatheblond]

1. EVERYTHING they do is for show and Trump fancies himself the director

There is little to no actual law enforcement going on at the federal level. Just theatrics, diversions, and wasting tax dollars so they can insist we need to cut services and help for the working poor.

[IronLionZion]

2. I know the feeling and empathize

I lived in downtown DC during 2020 and there was plenty of tear gas coming in through my closed windows. MAGA loves performative BS like this. It makes them feel tough.

[SunSeeker]

3. Good. The nearby residences need massive remediation efforts to make their homes livable.

That is going to cost millions.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Good for them . . .

But Kristi isn't fit to drink Barbies bathwater. She's cruel, evil, and malicious.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Impressing conservative influencers

What a fucking shallow, valueless way to make a living

[Midnight Writer]

6. The Potemkin Administration. It's all just one big show.

I am convinced the oligarchs and the GOP are using patsy Trump to push through their most unpopular agenda items, knowing he will soon be out of the picture.

After Trump crashes, they will distance themselves from him and blame him for the whole shitshow, washing their own hands of any responsibility.

[popsdenver]

8. Exactly MW

that is PRECISELY why we all need to quit saying Trump this or that, and say "REPUBLICANS"......The Republicans will be saying it was all Trump, try to make him the scapegoat, while they install Miller or Vought as VP and play nice for fear of the midterm elections.......And we will have only helped in the perception by saying "TRUMP" all the time......
In reality, the dems need to incessantly point out, every chance they get, that it was the REPUBLICAN Senators, and the REPUBLICAN House members, and the REPUBLICAN Supreme Court justices that were ALL in lockstep with everything Trump has done, since getting "installed" by Putin, the Corporations and these other people..........

[berniesandersmittens]

7. I was watching a Portland Livestream last month

I think it was Reuters. Ice let two women on top of the roof to video. Wonder if this is the same.

[ChicagoTeamster]

9. They did the same thing in Portland during the George Floyd protests.

I think there’s something about Portland that Trump and Miller don’t like.

[riversedge]

10. I am glad to see this.