5 editorial cartoons about ICE and migrants

Political cartoonists take on ICE raids, harvesting Big Macs for Donald Trump, and what to do when Stephen Miller shows up at the front door

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This cartoon shows two masked ICE agents handcuffing a mother and separating her from her son. The ICE agent handcuffing the mother says to the other agent, “We’re only following orders.” The other ICE agent, who is holding a crying boy, says, “That’s catchy. Where have I heard that before?”

(Image credit: Drew Sheneman / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

This cartoon is dominated by the image of a black truck labeled ICE in large letters. There are two masked men driving the truck. One says, “Happy Juneteenth.” Written on the side of the truck is the message, “If you’ve brown…leave town. If you’re black…go back.”

(Image credit: Chris Britt / Copyright 2025 Creators Syndicate)

This political cartoon takes place outside where a black truck is being driven by masked ICE agents. They drive through a field overflowing with cheeseburgers being picked by brown-skinned people. One ICE agent says to the other, “We don’t bother these migrants. They’re harvesting Big Macs.”

(Image credit: Clay Jones / Copyright 2025 Claytoonz)

This cartoon takes place in the entryway of an elderly couple’s home. An ICE agent and Stephen Miller stand at the door watching the older man and woman. The man has just answered the door and says to his wife, who’s sitting on a chair knitting, “Do we happen to have a copy of your great-grandmother’s naturalization certificate?”

(Image credit: Jonathan Brown / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This is a two-panel cartoon set in a fancy restaurant with a waiter in a tuxedo speaking to a man in a suit seated at a table. In the first panel, the man says to the waiter, “Is it possible for me to tell the chef how delicious the food was?” The waiter responds, “That all depends.” In the second panel the chef is being chased by an ICE agent. The waiter says, “How fast can you run?”

(Image credit: Steve Kelley / Copyright 2025 Creators Syndicate)

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