Kristi Noem Exposed After ICE Recruitment Investigation Scandal

16 Jan 2026 · 22 min · 10 chapters

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Episode Title

Kristi Noem Exposed After ICE Recruitment Investigation Scandal

Hosts

  • Jennifer Welch
  • Angie “Pumps” Sullivan

Episode Overview

In this episode, the hosts discuss the controversial actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its implications for American citizens. They express strong disapproval of the agency's practices, alleging that it operates more like a domestic terrorist organization than a law enforcement agency. The conversation highlights a recent investigation into ICE's recruitment practices, particularly under the Trump administration, and the hosts’ views on the systemic issues related to immigration enforcement in America.

Key Concepts and Arguments

ICE's Operations

  • Targeting Citizens: The hosts argue that ICE is not primarily focused on migrants but rather on instilling fear among American citizens, particularly those exercising their First Amendment rights.
  • Use of Violent Tactics: They reference civil unrest where ICE has been reported to use flashbangs and chemical weapons against protesters.

Recruitment Practices

  • Lack of Background Checks: A journalist, Laura Jadid, applied for an ICE position and found that the agency does not conduct thorough background checks. This includes hiring individuals regardless of drug use or criminal backgrounds.
  • Desperation for Recruits: The hosts claim that ICE is so desperate for personnel that they are willing to overlook significant red flags in applicants' histories.

Political Commentary

  • Critique of Trump and Noem: The hosts criticize former President Trump and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for their support of ICE and its actions, labeling them as contributors to a police state.
  • Democratic Party Response: They call for Democrats to take a strong stance against ICE, arguing that a significant portion of the public supports the abolition of the agency.

Systemic Racism and Law Enforcement

  • Historical Context: The hosts connect the current issues with ICE to a broader history of racism in America, suggesting that many problems are not new but have been exacerbated by the current administration.
  • Empathy and Racism: A significant portion of the discussion revolves around the lack of empathy among a segment of the American populace, particularly relating to how they perceive marginalized communities.

Key Takeaways

  • ICE's Characterization: The hosts characterize ICE as a "domestic terrorist organization" masquerading as law enforcement, emphasizing the need for its abolition.
  • Cultural Impact: They argue for the importance of multiculturalism and protecting the rights of all individuals, regardless of their background.
  • Call for Action: The episode concludes with a call for individuals and political leaders to stand against the oppressive actions of ICE and advocate for a more just society.

Conclusion The episode is a passionate critique of ICE, its practices, and the political environment surrounding immigration enforcement in the U.S. The hosts urge listeners to consider the broader implications of these issues and to advocate for a more equitable and empathetic approach to law enforcement and immigration policy.

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Chapters

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The Nature of ICE Operations

0:45 to 2:44

Discussion on ICE's tactics and implications for American citizens.

“Because it seems like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, they're pretty quiet right now.”

A Journalist's Experience Applying to ICE

2:44 to 5:06

Recounting Laura Jadid's application process to highlight concerns about ICE recruitment.

“I think that the biggest red flag that I'm seeing with a lot of this is that the budget for ICE and the manner in which it increased.”

The Problematic Nature of ICE's Recruitment Practices

5:06 to 7:26

Critique of ICE's lack of background checks and the implications for law enforcement.

“They want to terrorize American citizens.”

The Political Context of ICE's Actions

7:26 to 10:47

Exploration of the political motivations behind ICE's operations and funding.

“People, regard me as someone back to me.”

Racism and Enforcement Tactics

10:47 to 14:00

Discussion on the racial implications of ICE's actions and policing in America.

“And they've seen this American arrogance and they've seen the brutality towards black people and the injustice and the mistreatment of it.”

Racism and White Impunity

14:00 to 14:58

The conversation explores the awareness and regulation of racist speech among white individuals.

“They just went to the white people and said that.”

The Importance of Diversity

14:59 to 16:48

Discussion on the necessity of diverse cultures in teaching empathy and understanding.

“I'm not talking about you personally, Pumps.”

ICE Data Breach Insights

16:49 to 18:24

Analysis of a significant ICE data breach and its implications for understanding ICE personnel.

“So after the shooting of Renee Good and all the fuckery that ICE is doing, and so many questions, who are these people?”

The Role of Russia in U.S. Affairs

18:25 to 19:52

A critical look at Russia's interests in the turmoil within the United States.

“you know, where they've got Donald Trump because they've got the Bubba picture and video or whatever, but they have a vested interest in the United States of America, just fighting against itself.”

Multiculturalism and American Identity

19:53 to 21:59

Exploration of America's cultural identity and the importance of multiculturalism.

“And we waved our hands, you know, did our part when we were starting this podcast, that this is what was going to happen.”
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0:04The current operations by ICE, they're not about migrants. They're about terrorizing American citizens. We see, again, almost every day, protesters are shot. We see in Minneapolis, flashbangs on completely innocent people that are exercising their First Amendment. Right? Kylie put this up. You can see that ICE just goes in and shoots flashbangs. They're using chemical weapons. These people are just standing there. If you're watching, I'm sorry, if you're listening, all you're seeing is flashbangs against a group of people that are standing there exercising their First Amendment rights. So my question, and Jennifer and I have talked about this, is who are these people in ICE?

0:49Because it seems like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, they're pretty quiet right now. My guess is all the white supremacists are currently employed by ICE with their$50 ,000 signing bonuses. So what does it take to be an ICE agent? I found a fabulous article that a journalist, Laura Jadid, who is anti-MAGA, anti-Trump, she goes in and on a whim, she says, I'm going to apply for an ICE job. So the title of our article, you've heard about who ICE is recruiting. The truth is far worse. I'm the proof. So she starts going through the application process. She goes to the places where they're interviewing people.

1:31And the article's great, but if you go through it, you find out this. I thought this was an important statistic. When Donald Trump took office, ICE numbered approximately 10 ,000. Despite this event and her event, only 150 people came, her interview event. The agency reported 12 ,000 new recruits in 2025. And what she found out is that she goes and applies. They do not do a background check. They ask her to fill all this stuff out online. She doesn't do it and she is still hired. So what she determined is that they are not background checking. She even had pot in her system and she was still hired.

2:16And then after she put declining the offer, they still came after and wanted her to take the offer. That's how desperate they are. And they made it very clear in these meetings where they're talking to recruits that it's mostly very liberal cities, San Francisco, Los Angeles, where groups will come and try to stop ICE. So it surprises me zero. There's zero background checks. There are zero follow through on background checks, security, drug testing, because they just want warm bodies who are depraved. Yes. I think that the biggest red flag that I'm seeing with a lot of this is that the budget for ICE and the manner in which it increased.

3:05And if you follow along with what Donald Trump campaigned on, he campaigned on this. Joe Rogan recently said, we just can't have the Gestapo stopping people for their papers. Trump campaigned on that, Joe, and you endorsed him for that. And this is exactly the police state that they want to bring an American public that has been raised and has immense pride in our civil liberties. We have immense pride that we have the First Amendment. We have immense pride that we can say, I think Donald Trump is an absolute abject, piece of shit, small hand, teeny weeny motherfucker, that we can say that and that's our right to say it.

3:53And this ICE whole agency is to erode that. My problem right now is that Democrats are crowdsourcing their morality on this issue and they are not speaking out in mass saying, we are pro-law enforcement. We believe in law and order. We are the party that wouldn't pardon cop beaters. MAGA is. But this is not a law enforcement agency. This is a domestic terrorist organization masquerading as law enforcement, and we will not take the bait. We actually support cops. We actually support human beings. We actually support a multicultural society. And ICE would hire a dead pig. That's the qualification that they would do.

4:44ICE must be abolished. And Democrats, they have to come out and say it. It's a moderate position right now. Polling has shown, since Democrats love to crowdsource, polling has shown that the desire to abolish ICE among the American public is a moderate position, not a leftist position. Well, because here's the thing. They want to terrorize American citizens. And I hear from Kristi Noem all the time after she was defending the man that murdered Renee Good. She said, well, he's following his training. He's following his training. Well, then you realize there really is no training. And then I stumbled across an article where in 40 cases, ICE agents are putting chokehold on human beings.

5:35And that is a ban tactic. And like every law enforcement, you cannot do chokeholds and they're doing it routinely. So is that their training? Are they being trained in ban tactics? And then I came across this and this really spoke to who these people are. There was a 16 year old American citizen that was with his father. I put him in a chokehold. And this is according to ProPublica. They put him in a chokehold, stole his phone. And then when he went to go retrieve his phone, they said they didn't have it. And he later found it in a vending machine for used electronics. So it appears that the ICE agents stole his phone and sold it and kept the money and did not give a shit that he was 16, that he was documented or that he was in a chokehold.

6:32Adding insult to injury, they stole his fence. I mean, these are the bottom feeders of the world. And so here is a video that was taken in Minneapolis, and I want Jennifer to comment on it because it's the arrogance and it tells you exactly who the people in ICE are. I don't care what they told you. If you guys get in my way, I will arrest you. Sir, we're just observing. Please come down. You're going to observe all you want. I am observing. Do you see me in the way? I am. You had anger issues as a kid, didn't you? Were your parents present? You should be ashamed of yourself, man. He is. I love my job.

7:11Thank you. You love your job? I can't believe I get paid for this. Really? I do this for free. Really, I get$200 ,000. I'm a physician assistant. How long did you go to school for that? Well, for seven years. I went to high school. I made$200 ,000. People, regard me as someone back to me. So that's who these people are. They would do this job for free, meaning they enjoy terrorizing people while they wear masks. They love the fact that they are making as much money as a graduate degree because they're rounding up the people that the Trump administration and Stephen Miller hate. It's so gross. And it goes deeper than just Trump and Stephen Miller hating these people.

7:56We have to reconcile in this country. Racism is still so ubiquitous. You get to Bible Belt States, listener, those of you that live abroad that listen, and those of you that live on the coast, the racism that this administration has, they're emboldened to do now, it's always been there incubating this whole time. You can, if you cared enough, listener, to sit down with an African American friend, if you have any, and ask them, are you surprised by all of this, that this government is doing this? And go, no, this has been my experience in this country for a very long time. My neighborhoods have always been policed like that.

8:45Cops have always treated me like that. And this is where I'm coming from with all of this. And this is my mantra in a lot of these episodes, you guys. When we tell ourselves the lies, we tell ourselves that we are a nation of equality, but we leave groups of people vulnerable. We tell ourselves that lie and we're not protecting the vulnerable and we're allowing our tax dollars to bully people and to over police neighborhoods under even Democratic politicians. And then this all happens here. This has been incubating in this country. Trump didn't just create all of this. This has been there. My experience in Oklahoma City, you guys, during Obama administrations, during Joe Biden administrations, when my son was playing AAU basketball, white families with their little white darlings did not want their kids playing with black basketball players.

9:53And this is within the last five to six years I experienced this stuff. And so we have a fundamental problem of a country in messaging that we haven't linked all of these human rights and that we haven't really taken over the finish line, that we are a multi-faith, multicultural society that embraces that. We incubate horrible, horrible foreign policy. If you look at Vietnam, if you look at all of the regime changes in the Middle East, all of the regime changes in Latin America, and then all of a sudden they shoot these fishermen. We're like, oh my God, the United States shot people in the Caribbean.

10:36The United States has been doing that shit forever. And so it's important as we call out how the mask is off with this administration while the mask is on ice. It's important that we're really taught historically about how all of this has been incubated and our European listeners and international listeners, they've seen it because they haven't been inside the arrogant American media ecosystem. And they've seen this American arrogance and they've seen the brutality towards black people and the injustice and the mistreatment of it. But the one thing I don't know how to do is I don't know how to teach people empathy because these people, the third of Americans that vote for this man, that triple Trump, that see the shooting of Renee Good and think that that is warranted and that there was some, somebody's life was in danger when she got shot in the face.

11:40They have no empathy. They do not care about other human beings. And I don't know how else, how you get, take somebody who claims to be this uber religious person. And when it comes to caring for marginalized people, for human rights, they simply don't, they simply do not care. If you mentioned to these people like, Hey, you know, this poor kid lives in this rural town and he's, you know, he's gay and his family's mean to him and his church is mean to him. I want to know that doesn't affect me. I don't know how, I culturally, morally don't know how you get people to care for other people. No, I don't either.

12:25And I, to kind of piggyback off what you were saying, the triple Trumpers, overwhelming majority, 80 % of evangelical white Christians voted for Trump. I grew up in that world. I grew up in a family like that. I grew up in a community like that. racism was so ingrained until I got around other people outside of my community. I didn't even know it was racism. I had to get outside the community to figure all that because it was so ingrained. And in terms of teaching somebody - Hang on, hang on. I want to say something there. Okay. They do know it's racism because people regulate their speech. They will say in white circles, what they feel is safe to say in racism, but around black people, they won't say it.

13:17And this is something that we have to also address because when people have the ability to regulate when they're all in an all white world and they drop an N word or they make a racist joke, but they wouldn't say that in front of black people, they know. And we always allow white people off the hook by saying they have no idea it's racist. Well, they do because they're not out screaming, at least the racists that I've known that have said safe, where they think I'm a safe person to be racist in front of, which I've always called them out. But like these parents that I had the basketball issue with, they never went to the black coach and said, hey, we don't want our white boys playing on this team because we don't like black people.

14:03They just went to the white people and said that. And then after the fact, then they claim, I had no idea that was racist. They know if people consciously pick and choose how and where they use their speech, they know, and we mustn't let people off the hook because no other class of people gets let off the hook like this. And letting people off the hook like this is in the same psychological baking of Donald Trump. White impunity. and they know they know they went to school they know you can't drop the n-word in front of black people they know they know it's racist you know i was saying like as a child like in elementary school until i'm talking about you honey i'm not talking about you i'm sorry no and i agree with what you're saying i'm not talking about you pumps i'm talking about like the people that we've known that we know they regulate, you know, these basketball families.

15:02Oh yeah. We know how they regulate. I'm not talking about you personally, Pumps. The people who, who, who try to provide cover by, and the people around them that, that enable it and say, well, they don't really think it's racist. In their mind, they don't think it's racist. Well, they know if somebody can personally self-regulate their ability to say racist things based on who they're around, they know and that's a part of this danger and this is where we get really deep into all of this stuff but the big flashing question pumps for all of us right now is why has Trump gotten away with all this shit right why does he get away with this well a big part of it is white people get away with a lot of shit and so that's why I jumped in not about you pumps but about white people that we know that we grew up around that claim that they're not racist and then we allow them to get away with that instead of saying, well, wait a minute, Donna, you sure don't say that stuff around Black people, but you sure have no problem saying around me, you certainly know it's racist because you self-regulate your speech.

16:11And that's kind of, it's deeper, but I think it's something that I've noticed a lot about white people. They claim they're not racist, yet they still regulate their speech depending upon which crowd they're around. No, I can confirm that. Absolutely. And I think the only in terms of teaching empathy, you have to have a diverse culture. I agree. These people never are around anybody but white people and they all share the same opinion. That's why diversity is so important. That's why appreciating multiculturalism is so important because these people are around a homogenous group. And then something that I just, I'm super anxious to see the results of, there was a huge ICE data breach.

16:57So after the shooting of Renee Good and all the fuckery that ICE is doing, and so many questions, who are these people? Are they white supremacists? How are they trained? So a leak was made of up to 45 names, numbers, identifying markers, contact of these ICE workers. And this site says, we're going to release this. And what I'm anxious to see is how do you link the people that were now employed by ICE? What is their background? What's their criminal record? What's their history online? Are they radical white supremacists? Those kinds of things. So we have a site that's going to go do all this.

17:37They're going to do the hard work for us. And I'm anxious to hear that. So then on the heels of this site saying we're going to make an announcement, they were cyber attacked and they, the ice founder said the website was overwhelmed by malicious web traffic after the Daily Beast reported that a huge cache of personal IDs had been linked to the site. Here's the thing. I read online and in this article right here, it says massive ice scoons ID halted by cyber attack from Russia. So my first thought was, why would Russia care? Russia wants the United States of America to continue to pull itself apart.

18:18They don't have to come in and do anything because we're creating our own civil war between factions. And I just thought, again, Russia is controlling so much of our policy. you know, where they've got Donald Trump because they've got the Bubba picture and video or whatever, but they have a vested interest in the United States of America, just fighting against itself. I thought that was all stunning. Yeah, I completely agree. And we all know, I mean, these ice thugs, these, we all know these are the worst of the worst. These are the people that are, consume the manosphere. And there are really great men, really great, even white men in this country.

19:07I don't want to beat up on a particular brand of people. And I say that right now, because it's a time for white men in this country that are real protectors of the marginalized, that use their privilege for good. And it is going to take an army of decent, good, unbroken people to stand hand in hand to take on these monsters that have taken over our country. And we have to remember, it's very important that nobody says, God, can you believe Trump is doing all of this. He campaigned on this, this I stuff, he campaigned on it. This is a campaign promise delivered. And we waved our hands, you know, did our part when we were starting this podcast, that this is what was going to happen.

20:10And it's happening. And you have Joe Rogan recently talking about, we just can't have the Gestapo. And so I hope that more people that really, really care about other human beings and quit calling, you know, human beings illegal and quit demonizing them and can stand up for our multicultural society. Because here's the thing, we're fucked up as a country. I mean, international listeners, I get it. We're arrogant. We're loud. We're ethnocentric, guilty, guilty, guilty, but we're also fucking cool. Right. And the one thing we learned when we went to school here, grade school was about the statue of Liberty, greeting refugees in the marginalized and embracing that we are a melting pot and we are a multicultural society.

21:06And maybe there's one third, three out of 10 racist, unempathetic, hypocritical freak show Christians. Okay. They're there. But 70 % of us, seven out of 10, dig the shit out of this country. We dig the shit out of our multiculturalism. And And I'll be goddamned if I'm going to let these pink arm, low T and freak show Christian women like Riley Gaines and Erica Kirk take away the advancement of women in this country and take away our ability to embrace and enjoy multiculturalism and do what real Christians are supposed to do. The why I, the lifelong unapologetic atheist, have more conviction about standing up for the marginalized than these freak shows on Fox should tell you everything you need to know about their religion.

21:58It is performative bullshit. It is a for-profit religion. All right. I think that's all we have, right, pumps? Yep. Please like this video, subscribe to our channel, and we will be back with more news.

22:16Thank you.

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