Ex-MMA fighter John Fabbricatore goes all-in on Donald Trump’s plans to mass deport unlawful immigrants.
Lower than a month into the Trump administration, the previous Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and congressional candidate has advocated for extra state and native cooperation with the president’s controversial deportation efforts in Colorado.
On February 5, ICE raided three Denver metro space condo complexes, with greater than 100 brokers from ICE and different federal legislation enforcement businesses together with the DEA (Drug Enforcement Company) and the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). And extra raids are anticipated within the coming weeks and months.
Later that very same day, greater than 5,000 protesters gathered on the Colorado State Capitol Trump’s immigration coverage and decried Venture 2025, a conservative coverage plan written by one in every of Fabbricatore’s employers, the Heritage Basis.
“Mass deportation isn’t necessarily getting rid of all the criminals,” Fabbricatore informed Westword. “It will encompass some people who are not committing crimes, but at the end of the day it will improve on our legal immigration system,” he says. “At the end of the day, you came into this country illegally, and that needs to be dealt with.”
Fabbricatore went 2-0 in MMA earlier than changing into an ‘expert’ on immigration enforcement
For fifteen years, Fabbricatore labored as an agent for ICE, the place he rose to a excessive rank, directing the company’s subject workplace for Colorado and Wyoming from 2019 to 2022. He in the end left the group over considerations relating to the Biden administration.
Earlier than changing into a self-proclaimed skilled on imposing United States immigration legal guidelines, Fabbricatore went 2-0 as a blended martial artist. He scored a 28-second knockout in his MMA debut in 2004. 11 years later, he returned to the cage and added one other first-round KO to his resume below the Sparta Sports activities and Leisure banner in 2015.
