Category: ICE
DOJ Reportedly Investigating Tim Walz, Jacob Frey For Obstruction
Federal agents are investigating whether Walz and Frey tried to block ICE oeprations.
‘As A Muslima’: Rashida Tlaib Blows Gasket Over ‘Neo-Nazi’ DHS Post Of Man Riding Horse
‘It’s popularized in neo-Nazi spaces’
Slate smear fails: DHS torpedoes anti-Trump agitator’s ‘lazy lie’ about infiltrating ICE
Slate magazine published a hit piece by an anti-Trump propagandist on Tuesday suggesting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement does such a poor job of screening applicants that “trigger-happy” criminals — or even subversive Antifa apologists — could find themselves with badges.
“A few months ago, ICE hired me,” Laura Jedeed, the self-identified “anti-ICE journalist” behind the piece, noted in a summary of her article on X. “I didn’t sign and submit any paperwork. I’m real outspoken about my opinion of the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable[.] And yet, there it was, in plain English. ‘Welcome to ICE!'”
‘ICE had officially hired me.’
Liberal rags such as the Guardian and Democracy Now! rushed to amplify Jedeed’s tale, along with her suggestion that if she made it through the recruitment process, then pedophiles, rapists, white supremacists, and other unsavory characters might similarly be securing ICE jobs.
The Department of Homeland Security stated, however, that the Slate article’s core claim was “a lazy lie.”
This response was met in turn with a community note on X casting doubt on the agency’s denial.
After corresponding with both parties, Blaze News learned that contrary to the 38-year-old leftist’s suggestion, ICE neither hired Jedeed nor sent her a final offer.
In her article, Jedeed claimed she spoke to a recruiter and submitted her resume at an ICE career expo in Texas last August, working under the presumption that her time serving in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, her repeat deployments to Afghanistan, and her civilian analyst work might “tantalize a recruiter for America’s Gestapo-in-waiting.”
Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images
Jedeed indicated that on Sept. 3, she received a tentative offer instructing her to log on to USAJobs, fill out a declaration for federal employment, and submit several documents, including driver’s license information, an affidavit that she never received a domestic violence conviction, and a form consenting to a background check.
‘I never received an emailed final offer.’
Despite supposedly doing “exactly none of these things,” she allegedly received an email three weeks later indicating that she had confirmed her intention to continue with the hiring process and asking her to complete a pre-employment drug test.
The leftist suggested that she subsequently traveled to her local LabCorp, underwent a drug test with THC potentially coursing through her system, and then — nine days later — discovered that “ICE had apparently offered me a job.”
“According to the application portal, my pre-employment activities remained pending. And yet, it also showed that I had accepted a final job offer and that my onboarding status was ‘EOD’ — Entered On Duty, the start of an enlistment period,” she wrote. “I moused over the exclamation mark next to ‘Onboarding’ and a helpful pop-up appeared. ‘Your EOD has occurred. Welcome to ICE!'”
In a video Jedeed shared online, the ICE recruitment portal appears to indicate that she was in the fifth and final stage of onboarding for the role of deportation officer, despite indications that she not yet completed the drug or physical fitness tests. The video also appears to show the ICE portal state welcome Jedeed to ICE and specify that her EOD was on Sept. 30.
“By all appearances, I was a deportation officer. Without a single signature on agency paperwork, ICE had officially hired me,” Jedeed wrote. “Perhaps, if I’d accepted, they would have demanded my pre-employment paperwork, done a basic screening, realized their mistake, and fired me immediately.”
While the DHS did not comment on the authenticity of Jedeed’s video, a spokesperson told Blaze News, “This individual was NEVER offered a job at ICE. Applicants may receive a Tentative Selection Letter following their initial application and interview that is not a job offer.”
The agency’s careers page states that “following receipt of a tentative selection letter, you must complete per-employment requirements. These requirements vary by position. All positions require security vetting and drug test. You may also be required to pass a medical exam, fitness exam and oral board interview.”
The page notes further that “a tentative selection letter remains tentative until all pre-employment requirements are met for the position.”
RELATED: Blocking ICE with ‘micro-intifada’: Good’s group taught de-arrest, cop-car chaos before her death
Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images
When asked about the DHS statement to Blaze News, Jedeed said, “I did not receive a final offer, nor did I accept one.”
Jedeed noted in a follow-up email, “To clarify: I did not receive a final offer in the mail.”
“I never received an emailed final offer — the portal indicated that I had already accepted that offer, as you can see from the screen capture posted on X,” she wrote.
When asked whether she suspected or had any reason to believe that the system would have barred her from proceeding upon hitting the accept button, Jedeed told Blaze News:
I do not know what would have happened had I hit that accept button on the ICE portal. It’s possible they would have asked for the paperwork — I certainly hope so. But the fact I already had an EOD date before filling out paperwork which the tentative job offer described as mandatory for proceeding to the next phase of the hiring process (final offer, onboarding), and the fact that my background check showed up as completed, are reasons for concern.
While she was not hired, did not receive a final offer, and has conceded that perhaps what she experienced on the ICE recruitment portal was “some kind of computer glitch,” Jedeed nevertheless suggested in her Slate piece that her recruitment experience is indicative of a broader problem at the agency — a problem that set the stage for Renee Nicole Good’s death.
“How are we to trust ICE’s allegedly thorough investigations of the people they detain and deport when they can’t even keep their HR paperwork straight?” Jedeed wrote. “And if they’re not going to screen me out, what hope is there of figuring out which recruit might one day turn into a trigger-happy agent who would forget that law enforcement officers are trained not to stand in front of vehicles, get jumpy, and shoot a 37-year-old woman to death on the streets of Minneapolis?”
Jedeed, like her fellow travelers in the media, neglected to mention that Good — whom Jedeed claimed was murdered — was shot while driving her SUV into an ICE agent after ignoring multiple lawful orders and interrupting a federal law enforcement operation.
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
MINNEAPOLIS MELTDOWN: Anti-ICE Mob Spraypaints ‘Only Good Agent is a Dead One’ on Destroyed Car
Minneapolis went full war zone overnight, and the message from the anti-ICE mob couldn’t be uglier.
As Tim Walz Encourages Resistance, Minnesota ‘ICE Watch’ Declares ‘Time Is Ripe To Embrace Militancy’
The “ICE Watch” group at the center of the unruly demonstrations gripping Minneapolis urged supporters to “embrace militancy” and escalate their demands “by any means necessary.” Hours later, Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) also encouraged residents to resist ICE, accusing the agency of carrying out a “campaign of organized brutality.”
The post As Tim Walz Encourages Resistance, Minnesota ‘ICE Watch’ Declares ‘Time Is Ripe To Embrace Militancy’ appeared first on .
‘You’re a left-wing hack!’ Karoline Leavitt rips journalist over ‘biased’ ICE claims
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt torched a “left-wing” reporter who challenged the administration’s defense of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Niall Stanage, a White House columnist for The Hill, asked Leavitt to defend Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s remarks claiming ICE is “doing everything correctly.” Stanage pointed to the shooting of Renee Good that has engulfed the media, as well as deaths and alleged improper detainments over the last year.
‘You should be reporting on the facts.’
“Secretary Noem spoke to the media and she said, among other things, that they are doing everything correctly,” Stanage said. “32 people died in ICE custody last year, 170 U.S. citizens were detained by ICE, and Renee Good was shot in the head and killed by an ICE agent. How does that equate to them doing everything correctly?”
“Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?” Leavitt returned.
RELATED: ICE officer suffered internal bleeding following Renee Good incident: Report
Leavitt sparred with Stanage, noting that he intentionally withheld figures that outline successful deportations of illegal aliens and the removal of violent criminals from America.
“Because an ICE agent acted recklessly,” Stanage replied.
“Oh, okay! So you’re a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion,” Leavitt said.
“You’re a left-wing hack! You’re not a reporter. You’re posing in this room as a journalist, and it’s so clear by the premise of your question.”
“You and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you’re a journalist, you shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat. But you’re pretending like you’re a journalist, but you’re a left-wing activist, and the question that you just raised and your answer proves your bias. You should be reporting on the facts.”
RELATED: ‘Don’t make a bad decision’: ICE officer warns smug leftists allegedly trailing agents in their SUVs
Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Leavitt grilled Stanage for failing to name the innocent Americans who were killed by illegal aliens, doubling down and defending ICE’s role in deporting violent criminals.
“Do you have the numbers of how many American citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens who ICE is trying to remove from this country? I bet you don’t,” Leavitt said. “I bet you didn’t even read up on those stories. I bet you never even read about Laken Riley or Jocelyn Nungaray or all of the innocent Americans who were killed at the hands of illegal aliens in this country.”
“The brave men and women of ICE are doing everything in their power to remove those heinous individuals and make our communities safer. And shame on people like you in the media who have a crooked view and have a biased view and pretend like you’re a real honest journalist.”
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
Minneapolis chaos escalates: Federal prison guards in riot gear block hateful mob after another ICE shooting
Tensions are rising rapidly in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after yet another ICE-involved shooting.
On Wednesday night, video footage from journalist Nick Sortor went viral, showing one of the latest developments in the conflict.
‘This federal response is growing every day. Send in the MARINES next!’
The video shows federal officers with identification indicating that they are from the Bureau of Prisons, a major development in the federal government’s efforts to control the situation. The prison guards are wearing riot gear and blockading a street to keep a rowdy crowd of rioters from the DHS agents behind them.
Other videos from the area appear to show rioters breaking into police vehicles and stealing police equipment. Some also reportedly threw rocks, ice, and incendiary devices at officers.
Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images
“This federal response is growing every day. Send in the MARINES next!” Sortor captioned the BOP video, in part.
Sortor attributed this development to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Blaze News has reached out to the DOJ for comment.
At the end, the video pans around to show a view of dozens of protesters near the line of guards.
One rioter can be heard shouting, “Why the f**k are you here?” and “What more do you f**king want?” before some in the crowd begin chanting, “They’re not qualified!” at the guards.
The video was posted just hours after an ICE agent was “ambushed by three individuals” and was forced to fire a defensive shot at an illegal Venezuelan alien during an attempted arrest, DHS claimed.
The alien suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg and was taken to the hospital, as was the ICE officer.
Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act on Thursday morning given the rising tensions between law enforcement and the increasingly violent rioters.
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
DHS Says ICE Agent Shoots Man After Being Ambushed In Minneapolis
‘The officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life’
NEW DETAILS: ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good Suffered Internal Bleeding, Was Hospitalized: DHS
The Minneapolis ICE shooting just got a grim new detail — straight from DHS.
ICE busts child rapist and murderer — 70% of agency’s arrests target criminal illegal aliens with prior charges, convictions
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continue their efforts to remove the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens from American communities.
The Department of Homeland Security highlighted the Tuesday arrests of five illegal aliens in a press release exclusively obtained by Blaze News.
‘What the media and sanctuary politicians do not want the American public to know is 70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the US.’
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of more worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from across the country, including those convicted of first-degree rape of a child, homicide, and arson,” the DHS wrote.
Federal agents captured Eduardo Salgado-Martinez, a Mexican national who was previously convicted of first-degree rape of a child in Benton County, Washington.
A 2019 local news report by KEPR-TV explained that Salgado-Martinez’s charges stemmed from an attack in 1995 but that he spent years on the run. Prosecutors claimed he raped two boys, a 7-year-old and a 6-year-old, whom he was babysitting.
Salgado-Martinez’s brother was found guilty of similar charges.
Eduardo Salgado-Martinez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE officers nabbed Fermin Flores-Ramales, also from Mexico, who was convicted of rape in New York City.
Fermin Flores-Ramales. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Khanh Tuan Pham, a Vietnamese national, was convicted of homicide, conspiracy, vehicle theft, and receiving stolen property in San Diego, California.
Khanh Tuan Pham. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Agents caught Miguel Molina-Palacios, an illegal alien from El Salvador. He was previously convicted of arson in Queens, New York.
Miguel Molina-Palacios. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE agents also captured Everado Javier Sanchez-Rivera, a Mexican national with a criminal history including burglary of habitation in Harris County, Texas.
RELATED: Historic ICE hiring surge adds 12,000 as agency kicks off 2026 with major busts
Everado Javier Sanchez-Rivera. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
“Our ICE law enforcement put their lives on the line every single day to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens. Yesterday’s arrests included child rapists, murderers, and arsonists,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated.
“What the media and sanctuary politicians do not want the American public to know is 70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. Despite comparisons to the Gestapo and an 8,000% increase in death threats, our officers show up every day and arrest heinous criminals from American communities,” McLaughlin added.
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
