The Trump administration is planning a massive propaganda campaign aimed at recruiting thousands of new federal immigration enforcement officers to carry out its mass deportation agenda.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that it had obtained internal documents revealing that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to spend $100 million over the next year on what the agency describes as a “wartime recruitment” drive.

The propaganda blitz will be targeted at highly specific demographics, including “people who have attended UFC fights, listened to patriotic podcasts, or shown an interest in guns and tactical gear,” according to the Post.

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    Awww, the $50K bonuses aren’t pulling in the numbers?

    Turns out, normal people just don’t like doing evil shit for a stunningly corrupt dictator.

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          Not to mention that, when the Nazis overthrew the structures of their government, you could ask any supporter and they’d tell you all about how Hitler loved the German people and was passionate about restoring their national dignity.

          It’s getting harder and harder for even Trump’s supporters to feel like he cares about them or America, let alone any undecideds that they’re trying to pull in with this ad campaign.

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              To be fair, America now has the scale and bandwidth of misinformation that the Nazis never had.

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            Fair point that Trump is a hell of a lot worse at his job than Hitler was.

            Hitler was a highly popular leader in Germany while Trump can’t get past a 40% approval rating.

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    This won’t end at deporting immigrants. “First they came for the immigrants…”

    The sooner your launch meaningful protests the sooner you can end this.

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      People here don’t believe in real protest. They think peaceful protest makes a difference, it doesn’t. They think waiting until elections and voting makes a difference, it (mostly) doesn’t.

      Until enough people realize aggression and possibly violence is the answer, nothing will change and they’ll sit around with their thumb up their ass wondering why.

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        aggression and possibly violence is the answer

        And give them what they want? No. MAGA is already fighting amongst themselves as is.

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          Exactly. Why risk lives escalating to violent resistance when the opposition is doing such a great job tearing themselves apart?

          Republicans officials are leaving the party every day, Trump has backed off the National Guard, the Epstein files debacle is only growing in strength, entrenched party seats are flipping every time they’re up for election…why interrupt your enemy when they’re in the middle of making a mistake?

          Let them fight it out. Whoever’s left at the end will be weaker and easier to defeat.

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    Here I am looking for a job while my government is handing out millions of dollars to the worst kind of shitty people. So great.