{"id":151563,"date":"2025-08-16T22:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151563\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T22:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:15:12","slug":"hbo-comedian-bill-maher-trolls-ice-with-brutal-parody-recruitment-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151563\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Comedian Bill Maher Trolls ICE With Brutal Parody Recruitment Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement is desperate for recruits to help with President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration purge, and Bill Maher is pulling no punches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s going to be almost no age limit\u2014you can be as young as 18 or as old as you want to be,\u201d the HBO comedian quipped on Friday night\u2019s edition of Real Talk with Bill Maher. \u201cBiden could join ICE. They are looking for a few good men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The TV comic then pulled up a number of actual Department of Homeland Security recruitment posters before presenting a number of his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cJoin Ice\u2014It\u2019s like Starship Troopers, but with Mexicans,\u201d one of Maher\u2019s mock posters read alongside the text, \u201cIt\u2019s time to take America back from the people we stole it from,\u201d \u201cbecause Jesus and Angels belong in the Bible, not in your neighborhood,\u201d and \u201cLike an OnlyFans Model, we take all comers!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Bill Maher at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones held at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 02, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/622OX6LK3ZHUNMSVZRQOWDPYZQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Maher blasted Immigration and Customs Enforcement&#8217;s new recruitment drive with a series of his own posters. Christopher Polk\/Variety via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Other taglines: \u201cIf you can read this, you\u2019re already qualified. Also, if you can\u2019t read this,\u201d as well as \u201cif you don\u2019t join ICE, we\u2019ll kill this dog!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The last appears to have been a barbed reference to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s memoir, No Going Back. Published in May 2024, the book revealed she had once killed a 14-month-old puppy because it was \u201cuntrainable,\u201d with the resulting public backlash widely thought to have excluded her from the running to appear alongside Trump on the Republican ticket.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Kristi Noem\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AGZ3IF4FXNGLNDTZMBVPR42OEM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>One of the comedian&#8217;s parody taglines targeted Kristi Noem over the Homeland Security secretary&#8217;s admission that she&#8217;d once killed a 14-month-old puppy. Manuel Arnoldo Robert Batalla\/Manuel Arnoldo Robert Batalla\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s not the first time Maher has eviscerated Noem\u2019s department for its recruitment drive. The comic also blasted \u201990s TV star and former Superman actor Dean Cain for signing up to become one of ICE\u2019s newest recruits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI think he joined because he heard that lots of migrants were coming into this country, and a lot of them were bad actors,\u201d Maher said to peals of laughter from his audience. \u201cHe said, \u2018Room for one more?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cain joined up after appearing in an ICE recruitment video, in which he told prospective department hirees that \u201cICE has arrested hundreds of thousands of criminals, including terrorists, rapists, murderers, pedophiles, MS-13 gang members, drug traffickers, you name it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, data compiled by independent immigration monitoring organization TRAC <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/tracreports.org\/immigration\/quickfacts\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/tracreports.org\/immigration\/quickfacts\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tracreports.org\/immigration\/quickfacts\/\">indicate<\/a> that amid increasing pressure on DHS agents to meet daily detention quotas of 3,000 people, more than 70 percent of migrants detained by ICE have no criminal record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Immigration and Customs Enforcement is desperate for recruits to help with President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration purge, and Bill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4087,2398,171,5560,5410,20523,88902,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-151563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bill-maher","9":"tag-department-of-homeland-security","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hbo","12":"tag-ice","13":"tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","14":"tag-real-talk-with-bill-maher","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115040755800147250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}