Overview
- On CNN NewsNight, Charles Blow alleged ICE is recruiting using Nazi and white-supremacist propaganda that functions as a dog whistle.
- Host Abby Phillip said he was referring to posts from DHS, the Labor Department and other accounts that analysts linked to white-supremacist chat rooms and iconography, consistent with a CNN analysis on coded language.
- Brianna Lyman and Scott Jennings challenged the assertion and pressed for an identified example before Phillip halted the crosstalk.
- Blow later cited a George Washington image captioned “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who we are as Americans,” which he said echoed a Nazi slogan, a linkage other panelists disputed.
- The on-air clash unfolded as unrest continued in Minneapolis after DHS said an ICE agent shot a Venezuelan immigrant during an ambush in a targeted operation.