Sen. Jim Banks Calls For Investigation
Into Foreign-Funded Anti-Ice Groups
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 2/19/2026 12:32:17 PM
Sen. Jim Banks has called for a federal investigation into anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activist groups he says are being organized and funded by foreign entities including agents of the Chinese Communist Party. In a Wednesday letter (snip) Banks urged the Department of Justice (snip) "to investigate foreign influence behind anti-ICE activism. Progressive groups across the country are organizing protests, economic boycotts, and school walkouts to oppose immigration enforcement" (snip) Pointing to examples of protesters assaulting federal officers, blocking and ramming vehicles, and storming churches, Banks argued that the government "must identify who is behind this chaos before it tears the country apart."
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Spy Agencies 7 replies
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Sen. Jim Banks has called for a federal investigation into anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activist groups he says are being organized and funded by foreign entities including agents of the Chinese Communist Party. In a Wednesday letter (snip) Banks urged the Department of Justice (snip) "to investigate foreign influence behind anti-ICE activism. Progressive groups across the country are organizing protests, economic boycotts, and school walkouts to oppose immigration enforcement" (snip) Pointing to examples of protesters assaulting federal officers, blocking and ramming vehicles, and storming churches, Banks argued that the government "must identify who is behind this chaos before it tears the country apart."
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from Sharia Act’ After Backlash Over
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the Midterms—It Doesn’t Take a Genius
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Senator Banks specifically noted funding provided by the notorious American expatriate Neville Singham operating from Shanghai and the Swiss leftist billionaire Hansgorg Wyss. It is especially ironic that financial backing for violent protests in the United States is coming from China and the European Union, entities that are increasingly intolerant of dissent from their own subject populations.