DHS Recruitment Anthem: 'White Power' Never Sounded So American
The DHS, post-fatal Minneapolis ICE shooting, decided the best way to rebuild public trust and recruit new agents was to feature 'Marching On'—a D.I.J. song widely recognized as a white nationalist anthem—in a recruitment video. (One might wonder how deeply they vetted that playlist.) This isn't an isolated incident; it's a feature, not a bug, of institutions that blur lines between national
security and racialized policing. When you build agencies like ICE and DHS to target certain populations (often non-white immigrants), how surprising is it when the recruitment materials resonate with a specific, unsavory ideology? This isn't about an 'oopsie' with a Spotify playlist. This reflects a deep-seated problem within agencies granted immense power to surveil and detain. The 'War on
Terror' has always been a convenient umbrella for expanding state power and targeting marginalized communities, all under the guise of 'security.' Whether it's rounding up immigrants or surveilling Muslim Americans, the playbook remains eerily consistent. Whose 'homeland' are we securing, exactly, and from whom?