We are away right now, having escaped the terrible weather currently pummeling Ontario. The internet is not working well here, so I don't think my graphic will appear, but you can see all of the relevant images here, part of a disturbing story about ICE.
y now, you will have heard of ICE's latest killing this one 37-year-old Alex Pretti. That it was murder there can be little doubt. A CBC article sheds light on why this lawlessness of law enforcement is taking place. In a word, it is who ICE is recruiting. It is all in the language and imagery being used, all of which appeal to the far-right supremacists that infect Amerika.
"I would describe it as oddly very familiar as someone who has been looking at the white nationalist and neo-Nazi movement for nearly a decade now," said Hannah Gais, a senior research analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Centre, a non-profit that monitors right-wing extremism.
"It's disturbing to see that coming from a government agency."
On Aug 11, 2025, ICE posted an image on its socials of Uncle Sam at a crossroads. It included the tag line "Which way, American man?" [Please see above link]
... the phrase itself is taken from the title of a 700-page antisemitic nonfiction book written by William Gayley Simpson and published by a neo-Nazi press in the late 1970s.
The book has long been a favourite among white supremacists.
It all follows part of a troubling pattern that caters to the racist president and his acolytes, and ecnhoes Amerika's essential racism.
In October, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, posted an image of George Washington on horseback with the URL to the ICE recruitment page. This time the tag line read "America for Americans."
It’s a slogan that was used in a xenophobic speech by President Theodore Rosevelt in 1916, before being picked up by the Ku Klux Klan, according to America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Harvard history professor Erika Lee.
Not long after, DHS borrowed imagery from the popular video game Halo, writing "destroy the flood" atop an armed vehicle.
In the world of the video game, the flood refers to a parasitic alien lifeform. It’s also reminiscent of the language far-right groups use to describe non-white immigrants, according to Gais.
Most recently, in the aftermath of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, ICE put out a recruitment post emblazoned with the line "We’ll have our home again."
Apparently, ICE's recruitment strategy is 'paying off'.
ICE says it received around 220,000 applications during its recruitment drive last year, and hired 12,000 new officers, more than doubling the size of its force.
A Proud Boys chapter reposted the "We’ll have our home again" ad next to a picture of a literal dog whistle, adding the line "message received."
Another chapter also reposted the ad, commenting "Hahah. If you know, you know."
While the Department of Homeland Security denies such allegations, it is clear that the Gestapo-like tactics currently afflicting Minnesota and other states are indicative of a mindset that respects only brute force, intimidation tactics, and terror. To challenge those 'values' enrages the agents.
Only Americans themselves can change this terrible trajectory.
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