Raskin: ‘Looks Like’ ICE Is Recruiting White Supremacists

Thursday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said he suspects Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is attempting to recruit white supremacists.

Host Chris Hayes said, “Do you think the Department of Homeland Security is explicitly attempting to recruit extremists with far right ideologies, white supremacists, Nazis and the like into the DHS?”

Raskin said, “Well, we don’t know for sure, but it certainly looks like it, Chris. Look, they’ve added a $50,000 sign on bonus for people going to work at ICE. They have dramatically cut the training requirements. They have promised ample overtime payments to people, and they seem to be making this very careful, deliberate, cultural recruitment appeal to people who, you know, share the most extreme ideological views in the country. Meantime,