Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE
Trump supporter Júnior Pena falsely claimed migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were ‘all crooks’
A rightwing Brazilian influencer who claimed Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown targeted only “crooks” has been arrested by ICE agents in New Jersey.
Júnior Pena, whose full name is Eustáquio da Silva Pena Júnior, declared his support for the US president in a recent video message to his hundreds of thousands of social media followers.
“I [support] Donald Trump – I like the guy,” announced the South American TikToker and Instagrammer whose account purports to show “the reality of the United States” from a migrant’s perspective.
In a previous video, Pena reportedly urged Brazilians to stay calm and not “despair” after reports that ICE agents were rounding up migrants, including Brazilians. “But they’re all crooks. The lot of them,” he falsely claimed of the migrants being seized.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/rightwing-brazilian-influencer-junior-pena-arrested-by-iceOpen linkView original on piefed.ca
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I guess he must be a "crook" then.
Well, he's MAGA, so he's automatically corrupt, a traitor, a racist, a mysoginist, incompetent, ignorant, and of course, a pedophile. So, yeah, he counts as a "crook."
"Oh look, a leopard! That looks like my kind of leopard. I know will only bite off the faces of my enemies. Surely it won't eat my face!"
I have such a headache.
Class traitor
That leopard is getting pretty full.
That leopard currently looks like an overweight orange.... Wait a second.
Is... Is that face line not just spray tan? Is that why he needs all those faces?
We need a bigger animal. Hippos eating people's faces party?
Whoops.
Way to go, Einstein!
Just another “worst of the worst” over here.