The Weekender
This is The Weekender. On Tuesday, a long look at the Proud Boys was published, including details on encrypted apps where one of their most extremist leaders suggested some of his compatriots have joined President Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
This indicates that people on the militant far-right fringe have responded to the Trump Department of Homeland Security’s mass deportation recruitment drive, which has included nods to white supremacist memes and other racially charged themes.
- A promotional Facebook video from the U.S. Border Patrol was soundtracked with a controversial 1996 song from Michael Jackson that included the slur “kike” and was shared by blatantly anti-Semitic X accounts.
- Border Patrol took the clip offline after news of the video and its embrace by extremists made the rounds on Wednesday.
Author's summary: Extremist groups respond to Trump's deportation recruitment drive.