The Department of Homeland Security recently released a spree of ads recruiting for new hires at ICE. And those ads circle around one strange idea: that America is a damsel who needs strong, powerful men to protect her.
In this Reporter Extra, Vox senior culture correspondent Constance Grady unpacks the secret history behind ICE’s iconography. They’re pulling from some old and shameful American archetypes — and those archetypes come with racist and misogynistic baggage. To fully understand the story ICE is telling, we need to go all the way back to The Birth of a Nation, and all the way forward to the present-day trad wives on social media.
ICE is trying to claim the power to decide who gets to be a part of America, and their ads give us a glimpse into who they believe America is.
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