DHS’ Racist Social Media Posts Beloved by Neo-Nazis and Other Extremists, and They Know It

GPAHE: The Trump administration is ten months into an authoritarian onslaught against the American public, a major part of which has been the demonization of immigrants and a deportation operation targeting migrants, permanent residents, and even citizens. In a sign of how much far-right hate and xenophobia have become normalized since Trump returned to office, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE’s deportation machine, is putting out a series of tweets that have gone viral using white supremacist and fascistic imagery in order to recruit new agents, in what could lead to violence against migrants. These posts depict Black people trapped in “crystals,” references to far-right iconography, gaming, and visual media depicting “fashwave” and “vaporwave,” both of which are common in extremist spaces.

Extremists have been emboldened by DHS’ posts, with Twitter users responding with Nazi imagery, spurring on ICE to “start rounding them up,” and celebrating a post from DHS comparing migrants to mutated aliens deserving of extermination.

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