ICE Used a Neo-Nazi Anthem to Recruit After Killing a U.S. Citizen

ICE chose imagery and music that appeals to extremists. That tells you exactly who they want wearing the badge.

Two days after an ICE agent murdered a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, official DHS and ICE accounts used a song popular with mass shooters and neo-Nazis in a recruitment post on Instagram.

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ICE also made it so the anthem actually plays along with the recruitment imagery when viewing the post within the Instagram app.

The lyrics to We’ll Have Our Home Again are attributed to a neo-Nazi fraternal order according to the Toronto Holocaust Museum.

A white supremacist mass shooter used the song’s lyrics for the opening of the manifesto he wrote before murdering 3 black people at a Florida Dollar General in 2023.

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The song’s title is a Proud Boys slogan and was printed on a banner at a 2022 event where Proud Boys beat a man with a metal pole while shouting homophobic slurs at him.

Here are the Proud Boys singing the white supremacist anthem at the California capitol in 2020.

Gabe Stutman@jnewsgabe

Proud boys sing their anthem in front of the California state capitol: “by blood or sweat we’ll get there yet...by god we’ll have our home again”

10:14 PM · Nov 28, 2020

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Two days after one of their agents murdered a U.S. citizen in cold blood, ICE is actively recruiting unhinged extremists—Proud Boys, neo-Nazis, and fans of mass shooters.

This isn’t accidental.

It’s not even a dog whistle.

It’s a blatant display of true colors that cannot be ignored or downplayed.

We are living under an authoritarian, white supremacist government, sustained by lies and propaganda, that is recruiting extremists to don masks and guns and beat, shoot, and generally terrorize citizens and immigrants alike.

Journalism needs to do a better job making that absolutely clear to the public. After all, journalism is a democracy’s immune system. But right now our system is weak.

So take action. Write to your favorite newsrooms and ask them to cover this story. Odds are they will.

To Do:

1. Share this.

2. Demand coverage.

3. Don’t let anyone pretend this is normal.

I learned about this from Anthony Fisher on Bluesky so be sure to add him to your media diet. Link to his account.

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@public_enlightenmentTwo days after an ICE agent murdered a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, ICE posted a recruitment video using a song tied to neo-Nazi culture and mass shooters. The lyrics to “We’ll Have Our Home Again” are attributed to a neo-Nazi fraternal order. A white supremacist mass shooter used those lyrics to open his manifesto before murdering three Black people in Florida. It’s signaling. ICE chose imagery and music that appeals to extremists. That tells you exactly who they want wearing the badge. Journalism is supposed to be democracy’s immune system—and right now we need it to be blaring all the alarms. Share this. Demand coverage. Don’t let anyone pretend this is normal.

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