The Left Sent a Man to Shame ICE Agents at LaGuardia and He Got the Last Thing He Expected

Two days earlier, an ICE agent at JFK saved a baby's life.

Now a man named Nick LaParra was walking alongside those same officers at LaGuardia, calling them "foot soldiers of a fascist regime."

He posted the video himself – and the whole country saw what happened next.

What Happened at LaGuardia

LaParra, identified as an anti-ICE activist with the group No Kings USA, approached a line of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers in tactical vests moving through the terminal and began demanding answers.

"You guys are the foot soldiers of a fascist regime, right? Is that not what it is?" he shouted, walking alongside the group.

The agents grinned.

Then one started to laugh.

Then another tried – and visibly failed – to hold back a chuckle.

"Is that funny? Is that funny?" LaParra pressed, growing more agitated as the officers kept moving.

He posted the video to Instagram himself, claiming he was "speaking truth to power" and complaining that the agents' response had been "a smirk."

The right-leaning End Wokeness account on X reposted it with the caption "ICE agents laugh in the face of liberal at the airport screeching about fascism," and from there it was over.

Millions of people watched a man embarrass himself in front of officers who couldn't be bothered to stop walking.

What These Agents Were Actually Doing That Week

Radical Left Democrats spent six weeks holding DHS funding hostage.

Their demand: defund ICE, or TSA agents keep working without paychecks.

Wait times hit the highest levels in TSA history. More than 510 officers quit. At some airports, 40 to 50 percent of the workforce was calling out on any given day.

Trump's answer was to deploy hundreds of ICE officers to over a dozen major airports – LaGuardia, JFK, Newark, Atlanta, Houston – to keep lines moving while Chuck Schumer's caucus held firm.

Two days before LaParra showed up at LaGuardia to shout, a father in the JFK TSA PreCheck line watched his one-year-old boy go limp in his arms.

The child stopped breathing.

For nearly two minutes, the father screamed for help while an ICE agent working his post heard the panic and ran toward it.

He took the boy, assessed him, and performed the Heimlich maneuver.

The baby started breathing and was cleared to fly.

"If our agent had not been there and stepped up, this would have been a tragic outcome," said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

It was the second child ICE officers had saved in recent weeks – off-duty agents in Plymouth, Minnesota had pulled a four-year-old boy from a hotel pool the month before and performed CPR until paramedics arrived.

What the Left Predicted vs. What Travelers Saw

Democrat lawmakers lined up to tell Americans that deploying ICE to airports was a catastrophe waiting to happen.

Rep. Veronica Escobar said there was "absolutely no reason" for Trump to send ICE agents to help TSA.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva called it a "horrible, horrible idea" and questioned whether agents were "prepared to help people feel calm."

Travelers got something different.

ICE officers handed out water bottles in long lines.

Karoline Leavitt told reporters wait times had improved since the deployment began – the agents were "doing everything in their power to help their fellow federal service members."

"They're here to help," one traveler at Newark told reporters. "They're not bothering nobody. As long as they can check my bags and get me on my flight, I'm good to go."

That's the context Nick LaParra walked into at LaGuardia on a Friday afternoon.

Not a jackbooted enforcement operation.

Officers doing crowd control, checking IDs, and laughing at a man in tactical vests because they'd heard the whole speech before.

The Left Built This Moment Themselves

LaParra posted the video expecting outrage.

He got roasted on Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram instead – viewers contrasting his shouted accusations with the officers' amusement as they continued through the terminal.

The reason is simple.

Americans traveling through these airports had already met these agents.

They'd seen them direct traffic, hand out water, and wave kids through security lines.

Radical Left Democrats called them "untrained thugs" – and one of them saved a baby's life in a TSA PreCheck line.

Schumer's caucus blocked the paycheck that would have kept TSA running – and the people who showed up to fill the gap laughed in the face of the man screaming fascism at them.

LaParra framed his video as evidence of what "we're up against."

He's right about that part.

He's just wrong about who's losing.

Sources:

• Cassandra MacDonald, "MUST WATCH: Video of ICE Agents Cracking Up Laughing at Whiny Liberal at LaGuardia," The Gateway Pundit, March 27, 2026.
• "Best of the Best: ICE Officer Saves One-Year-Old Child's Life at JFK Airport," Department of Homeland Security, March 26, 2026.
• "ICE Agent Saves Life of 'Unresponsive' 1-Year-Old Boy in JFK Airport," Fox News, March 26, 2026.
• Hannah Knudsen, "ICE Agent Saves Baby's Life at JFK Airport," Breitbart, March 27, 2026.
• Alex Miller, "DHS Shutdown Tied for Second-Longest Ever as Dems Again Block Funding Amid Airport Chaos," Fox News, March 2026.
• Stephen Dinan, "ICE Officer at Airport Saves Choking 1-Year-Old," The Washington Times, March 26, 2026.