Spurred by The Intercept's reporting, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse calls out DHS for ICE recruiting materials celebrated by white nationalists.

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.

  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 days ago

    ICE was created as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 following the September 11 attacks. It absorbed the prior functions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the United States Customs Service.

    The HSA was cosponsored by 118 members of Congress. Passed the House 295—132 with 6 not voting. It passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 90—9, with one senator not voting. It was signed by George W. Bush in November 2002.

    https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll367.xml

    https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1072/vote_107_2_00249.htm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00249

    So… ultimately Osama Bin Laden is responsible for ICE, along with many of the other pro-fascism shifts the US has made in the last 25 years in response to those attacks.

    He was extremely successful with his entire plan to destabilize and hurt America in response to the US fucking around in the middle east for decades prior.