ICE Recruitment Uses Far‑Right Extremist Rhetoric

ICE’s recruiting posts echo far‑right extremist memes, raising fears extremist ideology enters agency.

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ICE Recruitment Uses Far‑Right Extremist Rhetoric

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) 2025‑26 hiring blitz has sparked alarm when its social‑media posters adopted right‑wing extremist imagery and slogans. From a meme that echoes the 2025 “Which way, American man?” hook to a 1970s anti‑Semite book title, posts even used the “America for Americans” phrase once popularised by Theodore Roosevelt in 1916 and reused by the KKK. In August 2025 an hashtags‑heavy ad promised an “We’ll have our home again” call‑out that white‑nationalists weaponise. ICE attracted 220,000 applications and pledged 12,000 new agents, a doubling of staff, amid an $8 billion “Big Beautiful Bill” budget, $100 million in targeted ads, and an eye‑watering $30 billion plan for deportation by 2029. Experts fear the messaging lures white supremacists into federal ranks.

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