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cbabe

(6,230 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 10:21 AM 6 hrs ago

Anti-ICE activist infiltrates department and is offered job -- despite huge red flags

https://www.rawstory.com/ice-recruitment/

Anti-ICE activist infiltrates department and is offered job — despite huge red flags

Ewan Gleadow
January 13, 2026 7:13AM ET



Columnist Laura Jedeed confirmed she had not only been offered a position in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement wing, but had her health and fitness checks signed off in advance.



"The catch, however, is that there’s only one 'Laura Jedeed' with an internet presence, and it takes about five seconds of Googling to figure out how I feel about ICE, the Trump administration, and the country’s general right-wing project. My social media pops up immediately, usually with a preview of my latest posts condemning Trump’s unconstitutional, authoritarian power grab. Scroll down and you’ll find articles with titles like 'What I Saw in LA Wasn’t an Insurrection; It Was a Police Riot' and 'Inside Mike Johnson’s Ties to a Far-Right Movement to Gut the Constitution.'



His attitude shift was subtle, but instant and unmistakable; this was the wrong attitude and the wrong answer. 'Just to be upfront, the goal is to put as many guns and badges out in the field as possible,' he said."

Jedeed went on to suggest the "only thing ICE is screening for is a desire to work for ICE: a very specific kind of person perfectly suited for the kind of mission creep we are currently seeing."

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Anti-ICE activist infiltrates department and is offered job -- despite huge red flags (Original Post) cbabe 6 hrs ago OP
Some of us are aware. SamKnause 5 hrs ago #1

SamKnause

(14,732 posts)
1. Some of us are aware.
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 11:23 AM
5 hrs ago

They want us dead.

How many different ways do they have so say it or show it ???

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