Kathy Griffin stunned critics by urging Americans to figure out which neighbors are “MAGA” so communities can organize resistance to ICE as anger over recent deaths explodes.
Griffin used her YouTube show Tuesday to call for neighbor-by-neighbor political sorting, framing the effort as a response to immigration enforcement and deaths tied to federal agents.
The comedian argued the moment demands action beyond online outrage, warning that silence now equals complicity as protests against ICE escalate.
“Those of you that are awake, that see what’s going on, what do you think the solution is?” Griffin said on “Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin.”
Kathy Griffin telling liberals to identify which neighbors are MAGA and “start to plan.”
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“Putting children on planes and taking them to detention centers — which are really concentration camps,” she added. “Call it what it is, they’re concentration camps in the United States of America in 2026.”
Her remarks landed as tensions around ICE intensified following the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed earlier this month by an ICE agent after allegedly attempting to ram an officer with her vehicle.
The unrest has only grown louder since Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti on Jan. 24, turning Minnesota into a flashpoint for protests aimed at federal immigration enforcement.
Griffin framed the moment as unavoidable, arguing that normal life and comedy tours no longer offer cover from the political reality she sees unfolding.
“So, take that in, and I know you don’t want to participate in something radical,” Griffin told viewers.
“I don’t either. I wish I could just go on the road and do my funny stories about celebrities or making fun of politicians, but not even have to acknowledge this, but it is happening all around you. It’s happening around you.”
She then pivoted to a more direct call for organization, urging fans to identify political allies and opponents in their own neighborhoods.
“I live in Los Angeles. It’s happening at targeted places in Los Angeles,” the comedian said.
“And I think it’s time to talk to the neighbors in real life. It’s time to talk to your neighbors, find out if they’re MAGA or not.”
Griffin described the effort as a matter of strategy, not curiosity, insisting communities need to know who can be trusted when federal agents appear.
“Sorry, but we have to know who’s on our team and start to plan,” she continued. “Is there a way we can do something as a community? When I hear from my followers in Minnesota, they describe a very sophisticated channel of a system of things that they do to help one another.”
“And they use encrypted apps and, like I said, everyone has whistles and honks their horn, but they organize in small groups.”
Her description portrayed a grassroots warning network designed to alert neighbors to ICE activity, borrowing tactics she credited to earlier protest movements.
Griffin tied those methods directly to unrest following the 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, claiming that experience shaped today’s organizing playbook.
“And they have told me that they learned this from the George Floyd incident, because George Floyd was murdered 20 blocks away from these other murders, roughly,” Griffin said.
She closed her message with a warning to viewers who prefer to stay quiet, framing inaction as a moral failure.
“And, so, they said they learned a lot from that experience. So, I’m just telling you guys, live your life, but be conscious of this. And if you’re silent, you’re complicit. Sorry, I know I’m being a judgy b—-, but that’s how I feel.”
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Griffin’s comments arrived as celebrity anger over ICE operations is at an all time high, with actors speaking out at events to issue sweeping political calls.
“Breaking Bad” actor Giancarlo Esposito escalated the rhetoric Jan. 27 by declaring “time for a revolution” while walking the Sundance Film Festival red carpet.
Esposito paused promotion for his crime thriller “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” to address the political climate and directly reference ICE in a Variety interview.
“This is time for a revolution — and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting,” Esposito asserted. “We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down.”
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The actor offered a sweeping hypothetical about mass protest against world powers.
“If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world],” Esposito remarked, according to Variety.
He continued by casting the conflict as one driven by elites, warning of chaos he believes is being engineered.
“Some very rich old white men are exerting their power to suppress our own people, thus creating a feeling of civil war in the streets, preparing the haters to hate, teaching them how to shoot,” Esposito said.
Esposito cautioned fans that the moment represents something darker and more dangerous than ordinary politics.
“This is all a preparation for a very insidious problem that’s happening in our world,” he warned.
He ended his remarks with a pledge to keep speaking out, vowing resistance to ICE policies.
“And for me, I have to speak out. We will not be ICE’d out. This is not going to happen,” Esposito told Variety.
Other celebrities echoed similar sentiments online, drawing clear lines between themselves and supporters of immigration enforcement.
Actor John Leguizamo posted a blunt Instagram message Wednesday aimed directly at fans who back ICE.
John Leguizamo, voice of Sid in Ice Age, doesn’t want you to follow him or watch his movies if you support ICE.
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“If you follow ICE, don’t follow me, don’t come to my shows, and don’t watch my movies,” Leguizamo said in a short video captioned, “Abolish ice!”
“Full House” star John Stamos also joined the chorus, sharing a handwritten note on Instagram that framed his criticism as a matter of basic decency.
“I usually stay out of politics,” Stamos wrote. “This doesn’t feel like that. What I’m seeing from ICE feels cruel.”
Stamos insisted his views were shaped by observation rather than party loyalty, signaling distrust in official narratives.
“When people are treated like threats instead of human beings, when fear is the tactic; something is broken,” he argued.
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Though he avoided naming specific officials or incidents, Stamos closed on a bleak assessment of the current moment.
“Lately it feels like the bad guys are winning,” he wrote.
The actor also pushed back against critics who tell entertainers to avoid political commentary.
“[That line] doesn’t apply when basic humanity is the lane,” Stamos added. “This is all of our lane!”
He finished by lamenting what he called a loss of accountability and moral clarity.
“The speed of the cycle has erased shame,” Stamos wrote. “This doesn’t feel right, and staying quiet feels worse. Maybe the least we can do is not look away.”