Scarborough Repeats Warning ICE Agents Will Be Prosecuted

On Wednesday's Morning Joe on MS NOW, co-host Joe Scarborough repeated his warning that ICE agents will be prosecuted after President Donald Trump leaves office.

MS NOW's Morning Joe

September 16, 2026

7:35 a.m. Eastern

JOE SCARBOROUGH: There's so many people that act with complete impunity. They think -- and you've seen it in Washington -- I've seen it in Washington. People think because one President is in the Oval Office right now, they will be there forever and they are immune forever. They are not immune forever. And these people that are going around beating up Americans, beating up future Marines, killing fathers, killing grandfathers, killing beloved people in Texas --

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Mothers.

SCARBOROUGH: -- killing beloved people in Maine, shooting Alex Pretti, it looked like, execution-style. There will be justice. Justice will be done.

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I've been warning I've been warning these ICE agents. I will warn you again, Donald Trump's not going to be in the White House forever. He can't pardon you for the crimes that you're committing every day. Follow the law, follow the Constitution. Justice will be done. So you better get it right. You better get it right because a day of accounting, a day of justice under the law, under the Constitution will come. Be careful out there. Mika, we heard about what happened in Minneapolis. What about the ICE agent up in Maine and his priors?

BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. There are so many different questions here about not just the killings that have been happening at the hands of ICE agents, but the list goes on of where norms and our laws are being pushed to the limit or broken; children defending themselves in court, having to show up to court hearings at 19 months old. Are you kidding me? People being sent to countries that they didn't even come from -- being sent to Liberia, just dropped around the world where they've cut deals with these countries, these ICE flights, these detention centers where the conditions are abusive.

People are sick and not getting the medical care they need, whether you're undocumented or documented. And, you know, we'll say it every day, whether you're undocumented or documented. No, we don't call them "illegal aliens," but the White House likes to do that and likes to call them the "worst of the worst." They're human beings on American soil, and they're being denied due process and abused.