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The Assignment with Audie Cornish

What ICE’s Rapid Expansion Could Mean for Your Community

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6844 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Trump's megabill sets Immigration and Customs Enforcement up to be the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency. Journalist Garrett Graff tells Audie how a relatively new federal agency rose to the top and why people should “get used to” seeing ICE agents in their community. Garrett Graff writes the newsletter Doomsday Scenario and hosts the Long Shadow podcast. For more CNN reporting on ICE’s expansion: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/ice-cbp-police-los-angeles-immigration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You may have seen one of these videos online of someone being picked up by what looks like U.S. immigration and customs enforcement.

0:08.1

It's ICE. It's taking them on and everybody's freaking out about it.

0:11.6

You can't always be sure, given that ICE officers are prone to wearing masks these days.

0:17.6

But sometimes bystanders watch and film.

0:20.7

In some cases, they try to intervene.

0:22.9

You're hurting her.

0:24.5

Did you stop this? Listen, did you stop this?

0:29.4

Donald Trump has kept his promise to voters to launch a mass deportation, but ICE, as it is,

0:36.5

is too small to do it. That's about to change. With the new

0:40.2

mega bill he signed last week, President Trump got $75 billion more dollars to spend on more ICE

0:47.2

officers, equipment, and detention centers. Here's Department of Homeland Security Secretary

0:53.0

Christy Noem making the pitch on what's to come from the opening of Florida's self-described alligator alcatraz.

1:00.0

We're looking at other locations as well. We've had several other states that are actually using alligator alcatraz as a model for how they can partner with us as well.

1:08.4

ICE is on track to become the largest federal security force,

1:12.3

bigger than the FBI, ATF, just about every other agency around in just the next five years.

1:18.6

But history has shown us what can happen when we demand law enforcement agencies,

1:23.3

ramp up, and take on new recruits fast in a heated political moment.

1:28.0

It is, I think, to be very frank about it, a recruitment pitch for all of America's

1:35.5

worst bullies.

1:36.7

Are you excited to dress up like you are going to go take Fallujah in tactical gear

1:43.7

with long guns and masks and then go

1:48.1

raid a Home Depot parking lot. I'm Audie Cornish and this is the assignment.

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