About this episode

The episode discusses the sentencing of violent protestors involved in an anti-ICE attack in Texas.

On June 23, 2026, the federal U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas sentenced eight violent protestors convicted of assaulting the Prairieland Detention Center, an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, in an anti-Independence Day attack on July 4, 2025. Their stiff punishments ranged from 30 to 70 years in prison for rioting and providing material support to terrorists, among other charges. An exception was made for Benjamin Song, the group’s leader, who got a total of 100 years with an additional conviction piled on for attempted murder. Texas is a Republican red state that isn’t soft on these kinds of criminals. A court in Minnesota, California, Seattle, Oregon, Illinois, New York or other Democrat-controlled blue states might have let them off with community service or even found them not guilty. Don’t be surprised if some left-wing legal organization pays for legal fees to appeal the verdict and the sentencing all the way to SCOTUS. Several other protestors were scheduled to be sentenced on July 1. Prosecutors said the protestors vandalized vehicles, launched fireworks at the ICE facility, wounded an Alvarado police officer with a firearm and shot at unarmed…

Topics covered

• violent protests
• ICE
• court sentencing
• political commentary
• ANTIFA

Keywords

• violent protestors
• ICE facility
• Texas court
• ANTIFA
• sentencing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Independence Institute, ANTIFA, SCOTUS

Places: Texas, Prairieland Detention Center, Alvarado, Minnesota, California, Seattle, Oregon, Illinois, New York

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