Maher roasts ICE recruitment campaign: “Take America back from the people we stole it from”
HBO’s other late-night political comedian also had something to say about Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week.
“Real Time” host Bill Maher tore into the Department of Homeland Security‘s ICE recruitment campaign on Friday, sharing a series of fake posters that mocked new, lax standards at the agency carrying out President Donald Trump‘s mass deportation agenda.
“If you can read this, you’re already qualified,” one poster in the form of an eye test read. “Also, if you can’t read this.”
Playing on Trump’s evangelical base, one poster said that “Jesus and Angels belong in the Bible, not your neighborhood.” Other posters encouraged potential ICE agents to “take America back from the people we stole it from” and described working for the agency as “like ‘Starship Troopers‘ but with Mexicans.”
The best joke of the segment came at the expense of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. The former South Dakota governor revealed in her memoir that she once shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy, believing it to be a danger to her family. Maher riffed on an old cover of “National Lampoon,” which threatened to shoot a dog if the reader didn’t buy the magazine. The poster shows Noem holding the gun to the dog’s head under the text, “If you don’t join ICE, we’ll kill this dog.”
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Alex Galbraith is Salon's nights and weekends editor, and author of our free daily newsletter, Crash Course. He is based in New Orleans.
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