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 house 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 Challenge 2025, a conservative coverage plan written by one in every of Fabbricatore’s employers, the Heritage Basis.
“Mass deportation isn’t essentially eliminating all of the criminals,” Fabbricatore advised Westword. “It’ll embody some people who find themselves not committing crimes, however on the finish of the day it is going to enhance on our authorized immigration system,” he says. “On the finish of the day, you got here into this nation illegally, and that must be handled.”
Fabbricatore went 2-0 in MMA earlier than turning into an ‘skilled’ 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 finally left the group over considerations relating to the Biden administration.
Earlier than turning into a self-proclaimed skilled on implementing United States immigration legal guidelines, Fabbricatore went 2-0 as a combined 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 underneath the Sparta Sports activities and Leisure banner in 2015.
