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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are planning to spend $100 million over a one-year period to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers ...

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New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.

A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j[image or embed]

-- Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com) Dec 31, 2025 at 7:09 AM

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At least they will identify the very worst among us...

#1 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-31 08:25 AM | Reply

Too bad none of the previous administrations, Democratic or Republican, dismantled the post-9/11 DHS and ICE monstrosities that can operate without warrants and deport migrants without an immigration hearing.

One AI snapshot:

"Since its creation after the 9/11 attacks, ICE has carried out millions of deportations. As of late 2025, the Trumpf junta reported that over 527,000 formal deportations had been conducted during its second term alone, with a total of more than two million undocumented immigrants leaving the US since 2021 (including both formal deportations and voluntary departures, or "self-deportations").

Immigrants make up 77.1% of the US workforce aged 16-64.

Over the broader period since ICE's founding in 2003, the agency has deported several million people.

ICE deported 271,000 immigrants in 2024 during Joe Biden's administration, the highest since 2014.

During the Barack Obama administration, about three million deportations occurred.

The total number of deportations from 1892 to 2022 is estimated at nine million, with a significant portion happening since ICE's creation."

Too bad indeed, because with DHS and ICE, the police state is going to be a lot worse for all of us under Dummkopf Trumpf.



#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-31 08:53 AM | Reply

Advice for ICE HR:

1. Hire and train illegal immigrants for the job: a road to citizenship. And like many people on the public dole, maybe they won't work that hard at making their neighbors' lives hell.

OR

2. Best job candidates presently found in basements and rural jails.

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-31 09:46 AM | Reply

This is the US version of "Secret Police" who will do whatever the Junta dictates without regard to Judicial and Legislative restrictions.

#4 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-12-31 10:01 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Better go iron my sheets.

#5 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-12-31 10:03 AM | Reply

via GIPHY

#6 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-12-31 10:11 AM | Reply

Better go iron my sheets.
#5 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-12-31 10:03 AM

Liar. You don't iron rubber.

ICE should have their children removed.

#7 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-31 10:23 AM | Reply

that can operate without warrants and deport illegal migrants without an immigration hearing.

There, fixed that for you.

#8 | Posted by boaz at 2025-12-31 10:29 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

aka... Making Proud Boys and Prison Guards Greatly Rich Again!

Hitler's Secret Police were called...

"Hitler's secret police was called the Gestapo, an acronym for the German term Geheime Staatspolizei, which translates to "Secret State Police".

The Gestapo was a critical instrument of terror for the Nazi regime, operating without judicial review and wielding immense power to identify and eliminate political opponents, Jews, and other groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis."

www.google.com

Happy New Gestapo Year!

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-31 10:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

PEDO DONNIE is insane.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-31 10:40 AM | Reply

Convincing the bottom of our societal barrel that they're toy soldiers who should attack their fellow citizens is bound to end well.

I can only imagine some of the goobers I went to high school with falling to this kind of recruitment drive and they are the absolute LAST people who should have a badge and a gun while wearing a mask...

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-31 10:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

There, fixed that for you.
#8 | Posted by boaz

Except there are countless examples of migrants with legal status being arrested and deported.

So STFU you worthless pile of s*&^. You're an embarrassment to this Republic.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-31 10:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"This is the US version of "Secret Police" who will do whatever the Junta dictates without regard to Judicial and Legislative restrictions."I wonder if their oath will be made public?

#13 | Posted by danni at 2025-12-31 10:54 AM | Reply

The Democratic Party has officially gone full asylum. Not the good kind with walls and doctors. The kind where everyone's screaming, nobody's in charge, and the guy with the crayon is writing policy.
Here's what they proudly stand for now.
Open borders
Not "secure but fair." Not "legal immigration." Just vibes and chaos. If you even whisper the word border, they act like you personally pushed a migrant off a cliff. A nation without borders is just a garage sale with a flag.
Men in women's sports
Because nothing says progress like destroying women's achievements in the name of feelings. They spent decades screaming about equality just to let a dude with a beard and a vertical jump erase it in one season. Gold medals now come with an apology letter.
Kids making permanent decisions
You can't rent a car, vote, or take a Tylenol at school, but sure, let a confused child make irreversible medical choices. Parents are villains. Bureaucrats are heroes. And if you question it, you're labeled every word ending in ist.
Defund the police
Until someone steals their laptop. Then suddenly they want the full SWAT team, drones, helicopters, and a therapist on standby. They hate cops in theory and worship them in emergencies.
Free everything
College. Healthcare. Housing. Food. Daycare. Dreams. Self esteem. Nobody pays. Nobody works. The money just appears because math is colonial now. Debt is imaginary and inflation is just a conspiracy invented by grocery stores.
Climate hysteria
The planet is dying every twelve minutes. Give the government total control to fix it. Ignore the private jets, beachfront mansions, and carbon footprints the size of Texas. Rules are for peasants, not prophets.
Speech control
If you disagree, you're dangerous. If you joke, you're violent. If you ask questions, you're hateful. The party of tolerance has the thinnest skin in recorded history.
America bad
Everything wrong on Earth is our fault. We're evil, racist, oppressive, and incompetent. Also please fund the world, protect everyone, and shut up while doing it.
This isn't liberalism. This is a cult powered by outrage, feelings, and a complete rejection of reality. They didn't just abandon common sense. They set it on fire, danced around it, and blamed conservatives for the smoke.
I'm not angry. I'm just exhausted watching grown adults clap for ideas that would've gotten them laughed out of a room twenty years ago.
Call it harsh. Call it offensive. Call it whatever helps you sleep.
I call it accurate.

Taken from Facebook.

#14 | Posted by boaz at 2025-12-31 10:55 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

#12

There's a trucker with his pet poodle needing service, get back to work.

#15 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-12-31 11:04 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Of course, that stupid pile of s*&^ believes the garbage he reads on social media.

Holy f*&^ you're an idiot.

Let me guess, that's from the Hodge Twins or some nonsense?

#16 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-31 11:04 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Taken from Facebook.

#14 | Posted by boaz

You're too ------- stupid to live, sonny boy.
Surprised you remember to breathe - through the mouth, 'natch.

#17 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-31 11:13 AM | Reply

#2 DHS and ICE monstrosities that can operate without warrants and deport migrants without an immigration hearing

it's Illegal Migrants

did these Illegal Migrants respect our Process coming into the US? no they didn't, so they don't get due process going out

BTW, approx. 1.9 million illegals have taken advantage on self-deporting (CBP) with the oppotunity of being able to come back

#18 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-12-31 11:34 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

"In order to implement operation hand maiden you gotta have a goon on every corner!!!"

- VP Couch Penetraitor

#19 | Posted by 2020Rocks at 2025-12-31 11:58 AM | Reply

Republicans will suddenly become very worried about this the moment a different administration is in power. Just imagine what Hunter and AOC will be able to do once they get their hands on this much power.

#20 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-31 12:07 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

So...this is the great jobs program that Der Dotard's administration has been promising. Prove me wrong, as dead Charlie would say.

I'll set the 2026 body count of dead American citizens at 3 whites, 9 African Americans and 22 Hispanics.

For those who don't remember the Boston Massacre or May 4, 1970 on the Kent State campus, tune in soon, to see a repeat...

#21 | Posted by catdog at 2025-12-31 12:17 PM | Reply

14. Quite the list. What's hard to believe is anyone can read that thinking it's accurate at all. It's hysteria from beginning to end.

Boaz, please print that manifesto out, fold it in half, then again, then again, then again.

Then bend over and shove it up your @$$.

#22 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-31 03:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"I'm just exhausted watching grown adults clap for ideas that would've gotten them laughed out of a room twenty years ago."

"Other countries pay the tariffs" would get you laughed out of the room right now.
That's why you can't really hang with us, Boaz.
No substance.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-31 03:16 PM | Reply

ICE are hated and produced for sacrifice, just in time for inauguration.

Imagine millions of Americans flooding DC. Good luck controlling that.

"Homeland" - so NAZI.

#24 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-31 03:36 PM | Reply

" and deport illegal migrants without an immigration hearing."

When did the migrant cease being a "person", according to the US Constitution?

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-31 03:55 PM | Reply

What I'm about to unleash here will definitely get me labeled a racist, but hell, I'm already slapped with that tag just because I fly an American flag.
This is going to piss off a whole lot of Democrats on this platform, but I don't give a single ----.
I really don't.
Everything that has unfolded over the last couple of days in Minnesota involving the Somalis has pushed me over the edge.
I have a burning hatred boiling inside of me for these people, and I know it's not good, not Christ-like at all.
It'll fade eventually, and I'll get over it, but right now, I have to vent.
So here we go...
I want Tim Walz thrown in jail NOW!
No one is above the law!
I want the entire inbred community of Minneapolis deported.
This means Ilhan Omar too.
I want to watch her screaming and crying as ICE puts her in the back of a van.
I don't want to hear that "lispy over the top" accent ever again.
She doesn't belong in Congress.
She doesn't belong here period.
She was only elected because Obama dumped Mogadishu in Minnesota, and she slithered into a district rigged for her to win.
FACTS.
She shouldn't be making decisions or casting votes on behalf of REAL Americans.
FACTS.
There's nothing racist about wanting these people gone from my country.
FACTS.
They serve no purpose here.
They're frauds, gaming the system while I've played by the rules...
MY ENTIRE ADULT LIFE!
I don't want them walking my streets, breathing my air, or anywhere near my children.
The reason this country is spiraling straight to hell is because of illegal immigrants and people from every -------- corner of the globe.
If we don't act now, if we don't wake the --- up, our nation will be destroyed because we pitied and felt bad for these third-world inbreds.
We will become the UK if we don't start acting like the USA.
And I don't want to hear "What Would Jesus Do?" from bleeding heart libs.
Jesus would want us to protect the innocent and uphold justice, like when he flipped tables in the temple to drive out the corrupt who were exploiting the house of God.
He'd cast out these fraudsters and invaders who are defiling our nation, turning our generosity into a den of thieves, and command us to safeguard our homeland from those who come not in peace but to pillage and pervert.
We've let them flood in, leach off our systems, commit fraud like in Minnesota, and erode everything that has made us great.
I'm sick and tired of biting my tongue while liberals enable this invasion.
These people come here, form enclaves, vote in blocks for radicals like Omar, and then dictate policy that screws over the rest of us.
No more.
I want justice.
Real, swift justice.
Arrest the fraudsters, deport the lot, and lock up the enablers like Walz and for dereliction or worse.
This hatred I feel?
It's fueled by betrayal, by watching my country get handed over to those who hate it.
Liberals cry "diversity" while ignoring the crime, the costs, the cultural erosion.
Enough.
If venting this makes me the villain in your eyes, so be it.
But deep down, millions feel the same way, they're just too scared to say it.
Not me.
Not anymore.
America first, or America gone, PERIOD!!

#26 | Posted by boaz at 2025-12-31 04:17 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Everything that has unfolded over the last couple of days in Minnesota involving the Somalis has pushed me over the edge."

And you claim we're the unstable ones...
Dude.

You've lost whatever marbles you once had.
And why? Because of how much you hate black people!

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-31 04:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"They serve no purpose here."

What purpose did your people serve, when Slavery ended?
None.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-31 04:19 PM | Reply

#26 | Posted by boaz

Yeah...that's some sick ----, right there.

Who, exactly, penned that revolting garbage?

#29 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-31 04:35 PM | Reply

- This hatred I feel?

Is exactly what the Trump Cult financed by billionaires wants you to feel; hatred of, 'the other', anyone who is not like you.

In 1930's Germany it was immigrant Jews, today in America it's immigrant brown and black people being demonized to gin up the anger of the far rightwing Authoritarian White Nationalist Base... the SAME people who the FBI and Homeland Security verify are the biggest cause of Domestic Terrorism in this country, and have been for decades.

These are YOUR people, Major B... be proud.

#30 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-31 04:41 PM | Reply

"Liberals cry "diversity" while ignoring the crime, the costs, the cultural erosion."

I'm not ignoring them.
You're not capable of showing how "diversity" causes those things.
What culture is eroding because of "diversity?" Give us some examples. You can't.

"If venting this makes me the villain in your eyes, so be it."

It actually does the opposite.
It makes you sound like one of the villain's dumbest henchmen.
One who can't recognize that Trump is hollowing out the American economy to benefit the globally wealthy.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-31 04:42 PM | Reply

That post is all truth.

What purpose did your people serve, when Slavery ended?

Cucking white men.

#32 | Posted by boaz at 2025-12-31 04:42 PM | Reply

On Day One of the purge, Boaz will have the time of his life. He'll get to go out and shoot all the black and white people he wants. I'm sure my wife and I will be two of those victims; we're old, and easy targets.

On Day Two of the purge, Boaz will be fragged.

Because he has the same skin color as the enemy.

#33 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-31 04:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Oh so you're still serving whites.

How quaint.

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-31 04:45 PM | Reply

Boaz knows his place on the Plantation; wherever Massa' tells him to be.

#35 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-31 04:47 PM | Reply

"Everything that has unfolded over the last couple of days in Minnesota involving the Somalis has pushed me over the edge."

Not separating children?

Not caring about rape civil decisions and 34 criminal convictions?

Not the disappearing of people in America?

Not inciting a riot at the Capitol where police were murdered.

Not the murders of Democrats for being Democrats.

Not the constant lying ("2 weeks").

Not the nepotism.

Not the theft of confidential and security documents.

Not the abandonment of Ukraine.

Not the constant embrace of Bibi.

Not the constant embrace of Xi.

Not the bromance with Putin.

Not the $40,000,000,000.00 to Argentina.

Not the extrajudicial murders.

Not the Epstein cover-up.


None of that pushed this snowflake over edge ? ? ? ?

But this over-hyped, clearly racist "thing" is all the rage now.

Color me unimpressed.

#36 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 04:48 PM | Reply

- I know it's not good, not Christ-like at all.

Your Cult Leader and your Cult are diametrically opposed to anything, 'Christ-like'.

antichrist45.com

#37 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-31 04:51 PM | Reply

#33 Yep.

Major DEI Boazo will be just as black to his fellow white "fighters" as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Shirley Chisolm, Willie Horton, Rodney King, George Floyd...

... and the worst to his fellow white "fighters," boaz and his entire family will be just as black as Barack Hussein Obama.

I believe the after-action report will read: "Well, they all looked alike to me."

#38 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 04:55 PM | Reply

-I can only imagine some of the goobers I went to high school with falling to this kind of recruitment drive and they are the absolute LAST people who should have a badge and a gun

You just described how law enforcement has been hiring for the past 30 years or more.

On another note......Happy New Year, everyone.

This ICE thing is concerning.....

The whole Minnesota thing??? It'll get resolved. There will be some political consequences, for sure.

#39 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-31 04:58 PM | Reply

On Day One of the purge, Boaz will have the time of his life.
#33 | Posted by Danforth

It's easy to imagine Boaz as the main character in Night Of The Living Dead.

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-31 04:59 PM | Reply

"You just described how law enforcement has been hiring for the past 30 years or more."

No, it's worse. ICE has significantly lower standards than that.
People who aren't hirable as regular cops are getting hired by ICE.

#41 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-31 05:01 PM | Reply

" I know it's not good, not Christ-like at all."

Just be sure to take your list with you when you're approaching any gates.

#42 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-31 05:04 PM | Reply

"Everything that has unfolded over the last couple of days in Minnesota involving the Somalis"

I guess this part hasn't unfolded for you yet:
The ringleader was a White United States Citizen.

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-31 05:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#39 Yep. I'll get resolved. Yep. There will be political consequences, for sure.

But the amazing thing is that the Epstein thing will still be on-going, starting Fridays tens of millions of Americans are going to receive their new healthcare premiums, people will continue to be snatched from the streets of America (Details on your local TV news, sound up, down or muted, same impression), the on-going war in Venezuela will get hotter, the buffoons running federal agencies will continue to prove their incompetence, writ large, and inflation and rising prices will continue unabated.

Oh, and did I mention that there will be a major national election in less than 11 months?

Happy New Year to all ! ! !

#44 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 05:17 PM | Reply

"You just described how law enforcement has been hiring for the past 30 years or more."
No, it's worse. ICE has significantly lower standards than that.
People who aren't hirable as regular cops are getting hired by ICE.

#41 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-31 05:01 PM | Reply

ICE recruits are failing at FLETC and the BOP is losing guards to join ICE.

Meanwhile, other federal agencies were unable to send their recruits to FLETC to make room for the Sturmabteilung.

Too bad no previous administration, Republican or Democrat, dismantled omniscient DHS and ruthless ICE over the past 22 years.

The American police state, as horrendous as it was, is calcifying at record speed and will be worse in the future.




#45 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-31 05:43 PM | Reply

It's too bad that the next Dem Potus will have to fire all those MAGAts and collapse ICE and CBP because we can't trust anybody hired during Pedo Don's regime to have been properly vetted or trained, and as such will be a daily threat to people's constitutional rights.

#46 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-12-31 05:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's too bad that the next Dem Potus will have to fire all those MAGAts and collapse ICE and CBP because we can't trust anybody hired during Pedo Don's regime to have been properly vetted or trained, and as such will be a daily threat to people's constitutional rights.

#46 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-12-31 05:44 PM | Reply | Flag: Spot On

Winning national 2028 Democratic Party platform:

1) We will dismantle DHS and ICE and purge DHS records taken without judicial warrant ("Fruit of the Poisoned Tree")

2) We will blanket pardon all political prisoners convicted during Dummkopf Trumpf's Reign of Terror (like POTUS Jimmy Carter on 20 Jan 1977 for those that chose not to fight in Vietnam)

3) We will stop funding Israel's genocide of the Palestinians. In 2028, how much property or living space will those poor people have?

4) We will restore the White House to its former grandeur and prosecute Trumpf junta criminals. If necessary, we will ask states to conduct investigations and use federal civil remedies that presidential pardons can not stop.

Democrats should take a page out of this young man's book: upload.wikimedia.org

#47 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-31 06:00 PM | Reply

Who, exactly, penned that revolting garbage?

Apparently Jaz McKay, whoever that is.

#48 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-31 06:25 PM | Reply

#26 | Posted by boaz at 2025-12-31 04:17 PM | Reply

If you're going to copy/paste stolen hate at least post a link.

I'd hate to think of you as a plagiarist too.

#49 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-31 06:34 PM | Reply

www.turnto23.com

Jaz McKay is a butthole.

#50 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-31 06:35 PM | Reply

#32 Major DEI Boazo is so into his white friends that he (and his family) have eschewed all foods, especially any foods of "international flavor," in favor of just chicken tenders (white breast, natch) and Mountain Dew.

Preferably from the nearby CircleK store.

#51 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-31 06:56 PM | Reply

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