Podcaster Joe Rogan took aim at President Trump’s immigration agenda on his Wednesday podcast, blasting the administration’s recent deportation actions as “insane” during a conversation with tech CEO Amjad Masad.
The pair criticized the targeting of illegal immigrant workers and foreign students, calling the tactics excessive and unfair.
Rogan, a vocal supporter of Trump, appeared visibly frustrated while discussing the increased frequency of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
“There’s two things that are insane,” Rogan said. “One is the targeting of migrant workers. Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers.”
“Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really?”
The conversation came as the pair were discussing Masad’s background and the political challenges faced by Palestinian Americans.
Masad referenced recent cases of student detentions, prompting Rogan to express disbelief.
“Or Palestinian students on college campuses,” Masad added, to which Rogan nodded in agreement.
One of the cases the two discussed involved Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University, who was detained by ICE earlier this year.
Ozturk, who had written a student newspaper op-ed criticizing Tufts’ relationship with Israel, was reportedly arrested by plainclothes agents in March, as previously reported by Resist the Mainstream.
Surveillance footage of the arrest went viral on social media.
Masad noted that Department of Homeland Security officials used Ozturk’s writing as evidence in her detainment. Rogan reacted with alarm.
“And that’s enough to get you kicked out of the country?” he asked.
Ozturk was held for six weeks in a Louisiana immigration center and later released after a judge ruled her detention unlawful.
Rogan, whose podcast reaches an estimated audience that is over 70 percent male, according to Media Monitors, was once credited with helping Trump galvanize support among young male voters.
The Wednesday episode, however, marked a clear shift in tone, as Rogan accused the administration of going beyond its stated mission of deporting criminals.
In another episode weeks earlier, Rogan had similarly raised concerns about ICE enforcement during a conversation with comedians Luis J. Gomez and Big Jay Oakerson.
“They said we’re gonna get rid of the criminals and the gang members first,” Rogan said, according to the Daily Mail. “And now we’re seeing like Home Depots get raided. Like, that’s crazy.”
Despite his criticism, Rogan clarified that he still supports deportation of individuals involved in serious crimes.
“Going in and raiding those people and putting ’em in jail because they’ve integrated into society in an illegal way—it seems stupid,” he said.
President Trump has made immigration enforcement a signature focus of his second term.
His policies center on sweeping reforms, driven in part by concerns over the infiltration of deadly foreign gangs and violent criminals who, according to the administration, crossed into the country during the Biden era.
Officials argue that lax border enforcement in previous years created a national security crisis, allowing transnational criminal organizations—such as MS-13 and Tren de Aragua—to expand their operations within U.S. borders.
In response, the administration has prioritized aggressive deportation efforts and enhanced border security as key pillars of its immigration agenda.
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