ICE Should Show It Hasn't Been "Infiltrated by Violent Extremists," Senator Urges
Source: The Intercept
Spurred by The Intercept's reporting, Sheldon Whitehouse calls out DHS for recruiting materials celebrated by white nationalists.
Matt Sledge, Sam Biddle
June 12 2026, 1:37 p.m.
A Democratic senator has asked newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to explain the department’s racist social media presence and assure the agency has not been “infiltrated by violent extremists.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., pointed to a March bulletin from Colorado law enforcement analysts that was unearthed by The Intercept last month. It warned that DHS posts using language popular with neo-Nazis could inspire acts of far-right violence within the U.S. as well as prompt white supremacists to join the agency.
The bulletin by the Colorado Information Analysis Center cited repeated instances of DHS recruitment posts spurring discussion among neo-Nazis about enlisting in ICE with the hope of spurring a race war. It noted at least one instance of white supremacists claiming online that someone in their organization “had already been a captain at an ICE-contracted detention facility.”
The DHS posts, which sometimes appeared to borrow material verbatim from racist memes, songs, and tropes, were made as part of a recruiting push under then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Noem and former U.S. Border Patrol official Greg Bovino, who became the public face of Trump’s draconian mass deportation agenda, were pushed out of their positions by the White House this year.
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Read more: https://theintercept.com/2026/06/12/ice-infiltrated-violent-extremists-senator-whitehouse/
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/21/ice-dhs-social-media-white-supremacist-violence/
A newly uncovered police bulletin warns that white supremacists may interpret ICE social media content as a call to violence.
Matt Sledge, Sam Biddle
May 21 2026, 12:23 p.m.
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