Protests in Chicago Disrupt Homeland Security Recruiting Drive
DHS tried to recruit agents at a Chicago job fair. It didn't go well
Today, Chicagoans heard about Homeland Security’s magnificent incentives for recruiting kidnappers for ICE, including $50,000 signing bonuses and student loan forgiveness.
ICE showed up at a job fair at the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago’s Loop, ready to hire patriots eager for a little extra cash, and maybe the hypocritical student loan forgiveness that the regime snatched from those who thought they might have had some under Biden.
The good citizens of Chicago responded like any patriotic American would: They brought signs and megaphones.
“Stop kidnapping our neighbors,” read one sign.
“They are not welcome in this city!” yelled a man with one megaphone: “This is an immigrant city!”1
Per the Chicago Tribune:
“We’re hoping to make this space as inhospitable (for Customs and Border Protection) as possible,” said Johnny, 33, a protester from Chicago who asked that his last name not be used. “It seems like it’s working.”
Some protesters handed out pamphlets to job seekers who queued up at legitimate (that is, ICE-free) employer tables:
The new budget bill passed by the pedoführer’s enablers in Congress allocates $30 billion for the ICE kidnapping and abduction program, turning it into one of the largest domestic military operations in the world. You’re going to see a lot more of these ICE recruitment drives in fancy hotels. Bring signs. Bring megaphones. And maybe a lawyer or three.
The government has lowered its standards for acceptance into ICE. No college degree needed, no age limits. None. Anyone 18 or older can apply. So far, the government claims that 80,000 individuals have done so.2 I don’t believe anything the regime says, so take that number with a grain of salt.
Because I have an active imagination, it doesn’t take much for me to imagine the quality of these recruits:
When this kind of stuff occurred in Germany during the 1930s, the applicants to the security apparatus had the criminal minds necessary to get the job done. Beatings on the street morphed into death camps in Poland.
The same thing will happen here unless protests like these become the norm, become even more disruptive, and we all show no tolerance for the growing gulag state.
Notes
Image of “successful” ICE applicant licensed from Adobe Stock.
Footnotes
Levenson, Sophie. 2025. “Angry with DHS, Protesters Disrupt Job Fair at Congress Plaza Hotel.” Chicago Tribune. August 7, 2025. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/angry-with-ice-protesters-disrupt-job-fair-at-congress-plaza-hotel/?share=pacaetligtntutswytip (no paywall)
Newhouse, Sean Michael. 2025. “Trump Administration Cuts Age Limits for ICE Agent Recruits.” Government Executive. August 6, 2025. https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/trump-administration-cuts-age-limits-ice-agent-recruits/407261/
During the Industrial Revolution, French workers, especially those in the textile industry, wore wooden shoes called "sabots".
These workers would sometimes throw their sabots into the machinery, particularly looms, to intentionally damage or disrupt the machines and halt production.
This act of disruption, using the sabot as a tool, is believed to be the origin of the word "sabotage".
Sabotage is especially effective when performed from the inside.
I am not suggesting anyone get paid to disrupt the operations of a quality department such as ICE; I'm just pointing out possibilities.
Chicago shows us the way, once again!