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   Hippy Steve (exador23@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 12:54:31 JST Hippy Steve

   Wherein Ken Klippenstein (independent investigative journalist formerly with The Intercept, The Nation, and Young Turks) contends (based on leaked documents and DHS sources) that Immigration Agents Terrified of ICE Backlash After Shooting https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice

   On Friday, DHS sought volunteers to deploy to Minneapolis, in part due to opposition within the ranks, according to border patrol agents and other homeland security workers who have reached out to me. “Please begin canvassing your personnel for volunteers,” a memo sent by the Border Patrol’s Acting Assistant Chief Joshua Andrew Post on Friday.

   “There might be some immature knuckleheads who think they are out there trying to capture Nicolas Maduro, but most field officers see a clear need for deescalation,” a high level career official at Homeland Security headquarters in Washington also told me. “There is genuine fear that indeed ICE’s heavy handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around.”

   The senior DHS official adds that an increasing number of homeland security workers are concerned about the public backlash. “The claim is that recruiting is up, but there is also dread that the gung-ho types that ICE and the Border Patrol are bringing in have a propensity towards confrontation and even violence.”