(Los Angeles) “America needs you”: diverting the famous drawing representing Uncle Sam, the tense finger to mobilize during the First World War, the immigration police of Donald Trump wants to recruit 10,000 “patriots” to “get rid” of millions of illegals.
The aggressive campaign, launched last week on social networks by these police forces known under their acronym ICE (Immigration and Customs Shapefish), uses rhetoric and iconography with warrior accents. An offensive that delights supporters with an iron fist against immigration as much as it horrifies defenders of human rights.
“America is invaded by criminals and predators. We need you to get rid of it, ”urges the immigration police on his website, which depends on the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) led by Kristi Noem, faithful of President Trump.
Photos of the conservative billionaire wearing his inseparable cap and young women harnessed like paramilitaries are barred with the slogan “Defend the fatherland. Join Ice today. »»
“For our culture”
“For our country, for our culture, for our way of life. Will you answer the call? », Enjoin the ministry in his account X.
To add 10,000 field police officers, investigators and lawyers to the 20,000 existing agents, she received from the congress an envelope of $ 75 billion, which makes Ice the best -equipped federal police force, before the FBI.
What promise its recruits $ 50,000 of recruitment bonus and other advantages.
On Wednesday on Fox News television, Kriti Noem announced the minimum and maximum aging extension to apply: from 18 years old and beyond 40 years.
Since his return to power on January 20, Donald Trump spectacularly implemented his absolute campaign priority: the fight against illegal immigration.
With descents on DIY store parking, in restaurant kitchens or on agricultural holdings, plainclothes police, armed and masked, lead a real hunt for illegal immigrants in order to expel them from the United States.
These undocumented people, most of them from Latin America, are estimated at some 11 million, out of 41 million immigrants in total in the United States, according to the association classified on the left ACLU.
“Trojan horse”
In California, federal justice prohibited these punch operations at the end of July, that associations for the defense of human rights and lawyers equate with violent and illegal facies.
But that has not dissuaded Ice from carrying out a spectacular operation in Los Angeles on Wednesday to stop some undocumented workers under the cameras of Fox News.
Since the arrival of Donald Trump in power in January, the number of illegal entries via the border with Mexico has dropped drastically.
At the same time, the number of immigrants detained by retention centers reached a record level in June – 60,254 people against 40,500 in January – according to an AFP analysis from official figures.
Department officials have assured this week in the press this week that they have already received 80,000 applications for ICE, eight times more than the number of positions to be filled.
Immigration police also have a new recruit since Wednesday: Superman.
The actor Dean Cain, who embodied the superhero in a TV series from the 1990s, Laws & Clark:
The New Adventures of Supermanannounced that he had joined Ice, on behalf of his commitment to President Trump’s policy.
“So many patriots have done so and I am proud to be part of it,” said the actor in a video.
