This is What ICE's Recruitment Looks Like Under Trump

In this video, I break down how Trump’s chaotic ICE recruitment surge and weak vetting helped create the conditions that led to the killing of 37‑year‑old mother of three, Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis.

A Slate reporter recently applied to work for ICE as an experiment — despite being a public critic of the agency and not completing required screening steps, they were still processed as if they were a new ICE agent. That’s not just incompetence, it’s a warning: if they can get that far, who else is slipping through the cracks? Violent abusers? Far‑right extremists? People who see a government badge as a license to hurt?

At the same time, Trump is pushing the “largest deportation operation in American history,” rushing ICE hiring, cutting training, and turning immigration enforcement into a politicized deportation army. The deadly shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis — where ICE’s story is contradicted by video and witnesses, and DOJ still refuses a civil rights investigation — is exactly the kind of outcome you get from that system.

In this episode, we cover:

– How ICE’s broken hiring and vetting really work

– Why Trump’s ICE recruitment surge is so dangerous

– What happened to Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis

– How DOJ and federal prosecutors are handling (or NOT handling) the case

– What this all says about authoritarianism, Project 2025, and Trump’s deportation force

If you care about democracy, civil rights, and stopping an out‑of‑control immigration police force before it gets even more power, this one matters.

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