Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, reacting to the post on X: "Trump's ICE publishes a graphic saying they are going to be stopping "ideas" from "illegally" crossing the border. Remind me again whether we're supposed to be a free country?"

ICE pledged to stop illegal “ideas” from entering the United States in a social media post it deleted after receiving backlash.

In a since-deleted social media post, the immigration enforcement agency declared itself the border thought police in a country that is supposed to believe in freedom of speech and thought.