A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement head says the Trump administration’s fast-tracked hiring drive and culture-war recruitment are a recipe for disaster.

Obama-era John Sandweg warned that mixing ideological messaging with shortened vetting and training could have “catastrophic” consequences.

As the Department of Homeland Security seeks to drastically increase the number of ICE agents to hit the White House’s 3,000 daily deportations target, it has pursued a meme-driven recruiting blitz that leans into far-right imagery and markets immigration enforcement as a fight to defend “American identity.”

DHS and ICE have pushed posts invoking The Lord of the Rings, medieval knights, and the Halo video game to frame immigration as an existential battle—content that is seen by critics

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