This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Thursday, January 15th.

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom filling in for Brian today.

More news involving ICE and Minneapolis this

morning. Yesterday, federal officials say an ICE officer shot and injured a man there. Officials say the

man was from Venezuela and was in the country illegally. Officials also say the man was fleeing a targeted

traffic stop when they caught up with him that then evolved into a violent act where he was trying to resist arrest.

Two neighbors who witnessed the attempted arrest intervened with a broom and a snow shovel.

The ICE officer shot the man they had been pursuing in his leg.

Outlets, including the New York Times, said they could not

independently verify this official account. The man and the ICE officer are both in the hospital.

The two neighbors are in custody. This comes just a week after the fatal ice shooting of

Renee Nicole Good, which has sparked ongoing protests against an aggressive immigration sweep in

Minneapolis. But the Trump administration's immigration policy is being felt across the country.

And that's part of what prompted my next guest to try to get an inside look at just who exactly

are the new ICE officers tasked with carrying out this policy.

Laura Jadid is a New York City-based freelance journalist who reports on American conservative and far-right movements,

and she's author of the substack, Firewalled Media.com.

Her latest article for Slate comes with this, rather, foreboding headline.

You've heard about who ICE is recruiting. The truth is

far worse. I'm the proof. And she joins me now to talk about it. Laura, welcome to WNYC. Great to be here.

So Laura, let's let's just start with some of the basic facts about your background and experience and why, you know, you ever thought you could apply for a position with ICE.

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