"Earlier this month, a recruitment video featured on the agency's social media platforms urged viewers to join ICE, stating: "under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, we've reclaimed our border, secured our nation, and have begun to deport these foreign invaders. Equally important as the task of securing our borders is the task of defending our culture - and what it means to be an American.""
"Homeland Security's stated mission is law enforcement, immigration, travel security and cybersecurity. Its campaign calling for the protection of American culture from invaders has raised eyebrows, and prompted accusations by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch Project, of promoting a White, Christian nationalist agenda. Consider the agency's Instagram, which has nearly half a million followers: it's a potpourri of pop culture memes, action film quality videos of ICE raids, and paintings of white settlers expanding West as Native Americans flee into the shadows."
"There's also a lot of re-imagined vintage World War II style posters, often featuring Uncle Sam calling on Americans to join ICE. Julio Anta, a graphic novelist, says the vintage quality evokes "the good old days of America, back when America was great." The World War II themes, he says, are a call to arms, "trying to inspire this newer generation to see this fight against immigrants as something in line with the greatest generation [who fought in the second World War].""
DHS social media presents immigration enforcement as a cultural and military-style struggle. A recruitment video credited leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem with reclaiming the border, securing the nation, and deporting "foreign invaders," and framed defending American culture as essential. The campaign seeks public support and to recruit new immigration agents. Critics, including the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch Project, accused the campaign of promoting a White, Christian nationalist agenda. The agency's Instagram, with nearly half a million followers, mixes pop-culture memes, cinematic ICE-raid videos, settler imagery, and reimagined World War II–style posters that evoke a "good old days" call to arms.
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