The facts behind anti-ICE journalist Laura Jedeed’s claim the federal agency hired her as a deportation officer
In January 2026, a rumor spread that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had hired, with minimal background checks, a freelance journalist who had been an outspoken critic of ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Laura Jedeed, the journalist in question, wrote an article for Slate magazine recounting how ICE … Read more