that was unearthed by The Intercept<\/a> 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.<\/p>\nThe bulletin by the Colorado Information Analysis Center cited repeated instances of DHS recruitment posts spurring discussion among neo-Nazis about enlisting in ICE with the hope of spurring a race war. It noted at least one instance of white supremacists claiming online that someone in their organization \u201chad already been a captain at an ICE-contracted detention facility.\u201d<\/p>\n
The DHS posts, which sometimes appeared to borrow material verbatim from racist memes, songs, and tropes, were made as part of a recruiting push under then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Noem and former U.S. Border Patrol official Greg Bovino, who became the public face of Trump\u2019s draconian mass deportation agenda, were pushed out of their positions by the White House this year.<\/p>\n
Whitehouse said that Mullin should disavow his predecessor\u2019s \u201cdangerous recruitment campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot believe that you support the messages associated with these recruitment campaigns, or want anyone under your supervision to use the imprimatur of the United States Government to promote those messages,\u201d Whitehouse said in a letter dated Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In response to a request for comment, a DHS spokesperson criticized Whitehouse and the Colorado law enforcement analysts. The analysts\u2019 report came from a fusion center, part of a network of information clearinghouses for local, state and federal police that spread across the U.S. following 9\/11.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is gross that Senator Whitehouse and the state of Colorado are actively weaponizing official law enforcement bulletins to promote dangerous anti-ICE conspiracy theories,\u201d the agency wrote in a statement. \u201cComparing recruitment efforts aimed at filling critical public safety roles to extremist rhetoric is not only absurd, but it also dangerously undermines the mission and sacrifices of federal officers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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