HateWatch – “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using white nationalist imagery and language to recruit new employees and arrest immigrants. A Hatewatch review of DHS social media posts and web content found that the federal agency utilizes white nationalist and anti-immigrant images and slogans in recruitment materials. In addition, while recruitment images feature white people almost exclusively, the agency’s social media disproportionately posts images of Black and Brown people accused of violating federal immigration laws. In some cases, the images and language appear to come directly from antisemitic and neo-Nazi publications and a white Christian nationalist website. The unprecedented quadrupling of funding contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in July makes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government. According to the National Immigration Law Center, the act immediately allocates $32 billion for immigration and deportation operations. At the same time, President Donald Trump’s administration is deploying National Guard troops to assist some ICE operations and partnering with some  governors and private prison companies to expand detention facilities across the United States. In some cases, ICE agents have arrested U.S. citizens, some allegedly for documenting ICE activities. Historically, DHS has faced criticism for harboring in its ranks employees who hold white supremacist and antigovernment views. Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, several top DHS leaders and immigration advisers were drawn directly from groups making up the organized anti-immigrant movement. Within this context, DHS’ social media campaign reflects an escalating trend in American immigration enforcement toward overt use of white nationalist and anti-immigrant myths to recruit personnel and justify departmental operations…”