Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!

 "Unite the Right" rally during President Trump's
first term where he said there
were "very fine people on both sides," 

This is scary! This is the new Gestapo! The new Brownshirts! This is a Washington Post article on Yahoo.

At an ICE career expo, thousands line up to ‘defend the homeland’

By Robert Klemko

September 2, 2025

ARLINGTON, Texas - Christian Osborne has been itching to serve his country since he was discharged from the Marines after refusing the coronavirus vaccine. He thinks Americans have a naive view of illegal immigration and wants to be part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

“Every country for its entire existence has always had borders. We’re the only country who says, ‘Come on in,’” said Osborne, 24. “There needs to be a control on who can come in, to make sure you’re not some psycho.”

So last week he shuffled into a Texas arena typically reserved for Counter-Strike and “League of Legends” video game competitions to attend a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement career expo and make the case for why he should become one of 10,000 new officers the agency intends to hire this year.

Um… let me guess… they want people who like bashing in heads of minorities.

The recruiting push has come with militaristic branding that evokes World War II-era U.S. propaganda posters featuring Uncle Sam, casting immigration enforcement as a defense against an “invasion.” At the hiring expo, a video played on a large screen in a dimly lit room touting ICE’s role investigating human trafficking and drug-smuggling, and showing agents in fatigues and bulletproof vests.

I think a lot of people are thinking that this sounds a lot like the begin of WWII. The Atlantic wrote;

Who Wants to Work for ICE? They Do.

At a busy hiring expo in Texas, new recruits answer Trump’s call.

By Nick Miroff

Immigration and Customs Enforcement held a hiring expo this week outside Dallas at a place called the Esports Stadium. Set between the Texas Rangers ballpark and the roller coasters of Six Flags, the arena was built for video-game competitions, and a wall of bright-blue screens welcomed job candidates at the entrance. “With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland and our values,” one message read. “Start your journey towards a meaningful career in law enforcement.”

[…]

“ICE career expos are an opportunity for patriotic Americans who want to help remove the worst of the worst from our country,” the DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told me in an emailed statement.

The job-fair attendees I spoke with said the defend-the-homeland message and Donald Trump’s presidency were big draws. “I want to stand up for my beliefs and protect America from foreign invaders,” Brennan Sheets, 30, told me. “I’d like to be there for others who can’t defend themselves. God is pushing me down this path.

“Foreign Invaders” really?

I am not the only one worried not about these “Foreign Invaders” but rather the quality of the new recruits.

Fast-Tracked and Under-Trained: Why ICE’s Hiring Spree Should Worry Everyone

Immigration Law

by Fran Metz

Aug 1, 2025

Picture this: You’re at your local coffee shop when federal agents walk in, badges out, looking for someone. The lead officer approaches a customer, demands ID, and within minutes, that person is in handcuffs. What you don’t know is that three months ago, this officer was working retail. They’d never made an arrest, never handled a tense standoff, never testified in court. Their entire understanding of immigration law—one of the most complicated areas of federal policy—comes from a 13-week crash course.

Sound far-fetched? It’s not. It’s happening right now across the United States.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is in the middle of a hiring surge unlike anything we’ve seen before. In an effort to rapidly staff its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division—the arm of ICE responsible for making arrests and deporting people—ICE is offering signing bonuses of up to $50,000. But here’s the part that should alarm everyone: ICE is openly hiring people with no prior law enforcement experience whatsoever. They’re putting armed officers on the street who, weeks earlier, were working in retail, fresh out of college, or switching careers from office jobs—drawn in by aggressive marketing and federal paychecks.

Check the job postings yourself. The requirements are minimal: pass a background check, meet basic fitness and medical standards, complete training. That’s it. No police experience required. No military service needed. No background in immigration, the law, crisis response, or even community engagement. And once hired, recruits go through just 13 weeks of instruction at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. That’s their entire preparation for a job that authorizes them to detain people, conduct home and workplace raids, and make decisions that can permanently separate families, changing their lives forever.

The Los Angeles Times writes that,

“As American citizens, I think we need to step up and try to help instead of depending on someone else to do it,” said one man, who drove 10 hours from Tennessee and declined to give his name. “I think decent people will do that.”

Another man, wearing a shirt with the American flag on it, said he was there because of “patriotism.”

[...]

“Are you gonna put the mask on before you kiss your kids goodbye for school tomorrow?” shouted Teresa Dunham, a 65-year-old Arlington resident and the first protester to arrive at about 7:30 a.m.

Dunham said she wasn’t surprised at the large turnout of applicants.

“They’ve been waiting for this their whole life, this opportunity to just be a badass or whatever they think,” Dunham said. “They are putting in writing what they’re willing to do to other people to get a paycheck. And some of them, I’m sure, don’t even want a paycheck, they’ve been living for this day.”

Yeah, I’m worried, the Washington Post article ends with…

Still, he said, “To call ICE the Gestapo - that’s ridiculous.”

Well there are a lot of people who think that is happening. I wonder how many of those marching with torches are signing up?

You know what all this reminds me of...