Noel King

This is Today Explained.

I'm Noelle King with Drew Harwell.

Drew is a tech reporter for The Washington Post who recently got his hands on an internal ICE document on hiring.

Drew, tell me what this document is and what's in it.

All right.

So they're blanketing the Internet.

Then there's also real life.

If I were to come upon one of these ads in real life, where would I be likely to be?

Where would I be hanging out if I saw one of these things?

Did they talk openly in this document about the kind of person that they want for ICE?

OK, so you say in the story that you reached out to DHS for comment and DHS told you what exactly when you confronted them and said like, hey, look, we've got this document.

We know what you guys are up to.

What was the response?

But you said that you also spoke to people inside of ICE who are kind of disturbed by this recruiting effort.

What did they tell you?

What's their complaint exactly?

OK, so that's the internal concern.

These ads, as you've said, are very, very public.

How is the public responding to being hit with these in the wild and on the Internet?

I wanted to inform you that I am canceling my Spotify subscription because my conscience can no longer support a company that plays ICE recruitment ads.