Even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed, thousands are laid off, and SNAP runs out of funding amid the government shutdown, the Trump administration has continued to spend big (upwards of $10 million) on ICE recruitment and Department of Homeland Security ads encouraging self-deportation.

In just the first three weeks of the government shutdown, ICE spent $4.5 million of taxpayer dollars to run recruitment ads, while DHS spent more than $5.3 million on ads encouraging self-deportation and praising President Donald Trump, according to new advertisement tracking information from Equis and Priorities USA.

“We’re seeing that some of these campaigns have actively started during October, clearly after the shutdown started, which is key to this story,” Natalia Camp

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