Image: from ICE nodding to far-right extremists.

This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration.

ICE recruits heavily from the far right. For the related topic of recruitment, see ICE Recruitment: Lowering Standards, Recruiting Extremists.

News: 2026

January 13.   Steven Monacelli: ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court.

January 13.   Austin Campbell: DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting.

January 14.   David Gilbert: Trump Doesn’t Need the Proud Boys Anymore: In a world where ICE agents are shooting US citizens on the street, the need for militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys to support far-right interests has evaporated.

January 26.   J.M. Berger: Anatomy of Extremism: What ICE Is Revealing in Minnesota.

January 27.   Cynthia Miller-Idriss: How Misogyny and White Nationalism Converge in ICE Enforcement.

News: 2025

February 19.   Steven Monacelli: ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account.

July 17.   Shirin Ali: A Former ICE Official Is Worried the Agency Is About to Go on a Spree of Hiring Proud Boys.

August 7.   Tom Dreisbach: Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to ‘kill’ cops.

September 10.   Siri Chilukuri: Rightwing influencer accompanied Ice agents during raids in Chicago. Ben Bergquam was with Ice agents during a raid on Sunday and yelled at protesters that they were ‘the enemy within.’