BREAKING: ICE detains a hardcore MAGA influencer who shamelessly claimed that only “crooks” get deported by Trump.
The irony could not be more brutal.
A Brazilian MAGA influencer who loudly cheered Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — and mocked fearful immigrants as “crooks” — has now been detained by ICE himself.
Meet Júnior Pena, real name Eustáquio da Silva Pena Júnior. He built a social-media empire by selling Brazilians the “reality of the USA,” racking up 1.3 million TikTok followers and nearly half a million on Instagram. He praised Donald Trump, declared “I like the guy,” and reassured immigrants that Trump’s raids only targeted criminals.
Spoiler alert: they don’t.
On Saturday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement took Pena into custody in New Jersey. According to friends, it stemmed from an administrative error—his immigration hearing was postponed but not properly recorded, making it look like he skipped court.
In other words: bureaucracy, not crime.
That’s the same system Pena insisted was fair, targeted, and nothing to worry about—unless you were a “crook.”
His talking points echoed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s favorite slogan about deporting “the worst of the worst,” even as data shows only about 28% of detainees actually have criminal convictions. Meanwhile, deportations of Brazilian nationals have hit record highs.
Now, Pena is reportedly being held at Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark while his lawyer scrambles to keep him from being transferred out of state. Friends have launched a GoFundMe to cover legal fees—because apparently the system he defended so passionately isn’t very forgiving.
Social media wasted no time. Brazilians online called it “self-sabotage,” posting clips of Pena’s old videos where he laughed at scared immigrants and promised Trump’s raids were overblown.
Turns out fear was justified. Just not in the way he imagined.
This is the quiet part that Trump’s crackdown always hid: support doesn’t protect you. Loyalty doesn’t grant immunity. And ICE doesn’t care who you voted for—or how loudly you cheered.
Pena told immigrants to stop being scared. Now he’s finding out why they were.
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Remember folks, when a bunch of 35-40 year old "Young Republicans" were caught joking about Hitler and gas chambers J.D. Vance called them "kids"
But 15 year old girls in the Epstein Files are "young women". It's sick.