Overview

• Maher used a table bit on HBO’s Real Time to lampoon DHS’s ICE recruitment campaign with fabricated posters satirizing the newly eased hiring standards.
• The satirical slogans spotlighted measures such as no upper age limit and $50,000 signing bonuses by exaggerating religious, racial and violent imagery.
• Guests Thomas Chatterton Williams, Walter Kirn and Molly Jong-Fast watched as Maher recited lines including “Join ICE because Jesus and angels belong in the Bible, not your neighborhood.”
• One gag referenced Kristi Noem’s memoir when a poster showed her aiming a gun at a dog with the caption “If you don’t join ICE, we’ll kill this dog!”
• Mediaite and Salon reports of the segment have amplified criticism of the Trump-era ICE expansion, which continues to face legal and operational challenges.