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Hegseth Fired The Wrong Admiral
South Carolina just sent her to Congress with five more Veterans. Republicans hid him from impeachment last night, and it only bought him 53 days.
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Happy Veterans Day. If there’s a Veteran in your life, I hope you get to tell them thank you today. Last week, voters sent a new class of Veterans to Congress, and six of them are in this edition. One is a three-star admiral Pete Hegseth fired without ever telling her why. In January, she’ll be sworn in to the House.
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The Admiral Hegseth Fired Is
Headed To Congress
Nancy Lacore went to college on an ROTC scholarship, learned to fly Navy helicopters, and spent 35 years working her way up to three-star admiral. In August 2024, she became Chief of the Navy Reserve and its roughly 59,000 sailors.
On a Friday afternoon in August 2025, the Navy’s top admiral called her into his office. “Secretary Hegseth had said I was to be removed from my position immediately,” she recalled. An hour later, she walked out of the Pentagon. Nobody ever gave her a reason. “It was the last time I wore a uniform,” she said.
Lacore went home to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, but she wasn’t done serving. In January, she announced she was running for the seat left open by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, who ran for governor and lost. It’s a district state lawmakers redrew to favor Republicans, where Trump won by 13 points.
On election night, she pulled ahead by about 3,300 votes—just enough to avoid an automatic recount. Then last Friday night, the AP called the race for Lacore. The morning after the election, she said, “We knew it wouldn’t be easy, but we also knew that South Carolinians are frustrated, tired, and looking for some change.”
Pete Hegseth was too much of a coward to tell an admiral who had served in the Navy for 35 years why he fired her. In January, she’s sworn in as a congresswoman and gets to help investigate every move he’s made since. Assuming Hegseth still has a job by then.
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Three Veterans Just Flipped
Republican Seats
At just 17 years old, JoAnna Mendoza enlisted in the Marine Corps. She deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, serving for 20 years—including as a drill instructor. She’s a single mom who’s the daughter of farmworkers. On November 3, she beat two-term GOP Rep. Juan Ciscomani in Arizona, taking 53% of the vote. “Step one, we’ve won, so goodbye Mr. Ciscomani,” she said at her watch party.
Rebecca Bennett was a helicopter pilot in the Navy. She’s a 39-year-old mother of two. In New Jersey, she just beat GOP Rep. Tom Kean Jr., who was absent from Congress for months this year. After she won, she said, “This is the moment we begin to turn the page on the Trump era!”
Cait Conley spent 16 years in the Army and earned three Bronze Stars. In New York, she beat infamous GOP Rep. Mike Lawler, who conceded on election night. This September, she went on CNN and called Hegseth “a hazard to American national security and a disgrace to the office.”
In September 2025, Pete Hegseth stood in front of America’s generals and said women might not measure up for some combat jobs. Three women Veterans just took three House seats from his party. Hegseth could never measure up to any of them.
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The Prosecutor Who Walked Out
Won A Trump District
On November 3, Zach Dembo took about 53% of the vote and flipped a central Kentucky district that Trump won by 15 points. When his campaign started, he was considered a longshot. On election night, he told his supporters, “Tonight, we together have sent a clear message: the status quo isn’t working.”
Dembo’s family has lived in Kentucky for nine generations. He spent more than four years as a Navy lawyer, then became a federal prosecutor, and eventually came home to Lexington to try cases.
He worked at the Justice Department through almost all of Trump’s first term and figured the second would go about the same. “And boy, was I wrong,” he told the Courier Journal. In May 2025, he quit. “I swore an oath to the Constitution and not any one person,” he said when launching his campaign.
His GOP opponent Ralph Alvarado had bragged about the fact he stood with Trump “every single time.” By late August, his campaign deleted his photo of Trump from the homepage of his website.
Zach Dembo wouldn’t bend for Trump, so he walked out of the DOJ. Now he’s walking into Congress, where he can hold the regime accountable.
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Veterans Are About To Put Hegseth
On Notice
In Virginia Beach, Elaine Luria—who spent 20 years in the Navy—took her old seat back. Her opponent, Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans, told a radio host this spring that she fully backed Trump’s war in Iran. On November 3, in the district with the most military personnel in Virginia, Luria beat her 51.5% to 46.1%. That night, Luria said the race was about “ending this illegal and reckless war in Iran.”
In January, Democrats take charge of the House, the Senate, and every committee. That gives them power to subpoena Pentagon leaders and have them testify under oath. But Hegseth didn’t get the luxury of waiting until January for the pushback.
On Monday, GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, who lost in the primary after Trump backed his opponent, filed eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth on the House floor. “I think the odds went up because of the election,” Massie told the Washington Sun.
Last night, Republicans voted 211 to 204 to bury the impeachment in a committee before it ever got a vote of its own. Massie was the only Republican who voted against burying it. Every other Republican who voted to protect Hegseth is now on the record.
Today Veterans will march near the Capitol. Army Veteran Kris Goldsmith, founder of Veterans Fighting Fascism, is one of the organizers. Goldsmith wants more than impeachment, stating Hegseth “needs to be convicted and disqualified from holding future office.” I couldn’t agree more.
In January, the Veterans he belittled or pushed aside will sit in the majority that can subpoena him, even if Trump fires him first.
In just 53 days, a new Democratic-led Congress will be sworn in. Until then, Republicans will do their best to run the place into the ground. They’ll try to bury things like the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill, inside their defense bill.
When the new Congress gets sworn in, every member will literally swear to support and defend the Constitution. The Veterans in this edition already made that promise once—in uniform. They’re about to make it again. Our job is to hold every member to their promise, no matter the party.
That’s why our pressure campaign exists. Our community has sent more than 921,000 letters and made countless calls to Congress in the last two years on dozens of issues. We are already organizing for the new Congress but we’re also keeping watch over the next 53 days to stop Republicans from abusing their power on the way out.
Yesterday, our Lame Duck Watch launched a joint messaging push using #HoldTheCrooksAccountable, which generated hundreds of millions of impressions and trended on multiple social media platforms, including Bluesky and X. Our pressure campaign has now sent more than 17,700 letters to members of Congress demanding they impeach Hegseth, and we’re not even close to being done.
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JUST A FEW OF MANY COMMENTS:
Watching veterans take these seats after everything this year feels like the right kind of full circle. Feeling grateful!
Thinking about my father and my two brothers who served in the Marines and Air Force. And thinking about all those Wounded Warriors who can really use our financial support as well.
So grateful for all their service and sacrifice and that of their families.
From lame duck to cooked goose.
A lame duck named Donald?
Mike, I'm thinking just plain Lame Donald, too! :-)
Yes. Impeached and charged. Not able to be elected or put into any office.
He is just like 45/47. A disgraceful human being!!
I’m feeling a bit deflated today. I’ve been so thrilled by what we’ve accomplished in this election but last night Hegseth skated out of an impeachment when eleven democrats didn’t show up? What’s that about? Come on folks ya gotta at least show up.
There is NO STATUTE OF LIMIT FOR WAR CRIMES!
REMEMBER NUREMBERG!
WHISKEY PETE should have stayed on FOX NEWS = FAKE NEWS where his behavior was tolerated and concealed.
Every Veterans Day, especially, and many other days I think about my deceased son, Deceased husband, deceased father, 3 uncles and paternal grandfather who ALL serviced in our military. What Hegseth has done and is doing to our Country, and especially our great Military and Veterans is disgusting and cowardly! And criminal in my opinion! He needs to be impeached and barred from any government job or access ever again! As does Trump!
Pete Hegseth will be impeached. People need to have some patience. It took a while to make November happen and in the next two months we will be building the case against him. When we take the house and the Senate - he’s toast.
53 days left. Today I'm thinking about my uncle Max, a naturalized citizen originally from a small town in Austria, who joined the Army to fight Nazis. He was injured in combat, during which he showed his heroism while under attack. He received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. We have so much work to do to make sure the new Nazis in our country are defeated, so we have to keep showing up. #MakeChangeHappen
Thinking about 2 veterans: 1) my father who served in WWII;2 ) my dear friend & neighbor, David "Spanky" Bryan.KIA at age 18 & in Vietnam less than 1 year. after being there. "War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing".(written for Motown)."There all there; he's all gone" Bruce, Born in the USA. RIP dear ones
This Veterans Day, consider which veterans clinics are Republicans gutting to pay for Trump's endless wars? Check this interactive map to see how their cuts hurt your state.
https://thedemlabs.org/2026/11/11/veterans-clinics-cuts-trump-wars-map/
WAR and the DEFENSE INDUSTRY is PROFITABLE!
There's no MONEY in PEACE!
The PENTAGON can't pass an AUDIT, doesn't know where TAXPAYER DOLLARS went...and under DEMENTIA DON they are proposing an expansion of NUCLEAR WEAPONS concealing it from public scrutiny.
Don't give up! There's a FUNDING BILL coming in DECEMBER - don't let them put there anticipated unrelated ADD ONs in!
WE STILL HAVE VOICES TO SPEAK OUT!
Waiting for another veteran, retired Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher, to claim Boebert's seat officially.
BOEBERT is a walking, talking SOAP OPERA!
A DISGRACE TO THE ELECTED OFFICE!
How DUMB must you be to VOTE FOR HER?
Please note that those four veterans that were cited are all female. Hegseth really doesn’t believe women should be in the military at all, let alone combat jobs. I’ve met some of the women who’ve made it through Infantry Officer schools and Ranger School. They are some of the smartest, fittest, and most interesting women you’ll meet anywhere. One of them, now a senior major, is working on a PhD in biomedical engineering at George Washington University. She’s a former Infantry officer, Ranger qualified, changing to the WMD track. She’d run rings around Hegseth in a debate.
Good day Scott, excellent article detailing the resilience of patriots standing up against the sheer tyranny our country has faced these past two years with a tyrannical convicted felon, his sycophants in our Congress, his unelected chain saw wheeling trillionaire as well as others that have allowed his unchecked criminality to flourish, while we suffer at the hands of this grifter, thief! If ever a need for oversight is most important, it is at this time! Thanks to the American electorate that have grown painfully aware of the MAGA movements ultimate goal of destroying our Constitutional form of government and allowing a convicted felon to take away our rights through his constant barrage of lies! You’re right, “Onward” to a better future for our country and people with true patriots that have served our country in armed conflicts, putting their lives on the line for our beloved country! With today being Veterans Day, this is a fitting tribute to my veteran brethren! God Bless all those that have served and are serving our country with valor love, and distinction toward our country.
And Trumps “Arch”, which will block views, access and potentially shadow the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery is a disgrace and a slap in the face to all military families! It needs to be stopped cold! Now! Our cities are NOT his to do with as he likes! Please, please stop this disgraceful egotistical man.
My late husband passed on this date, 9 years ago. It feels like 29 years.
The 42 years we had together now seems like a blink of an eye.
Time is weird in that way. ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Sorry for your loss!
Living together for so long you just become ONE!
It's a BLESSING, but your loss is understandable.
If you wait long enough - you can stand on the banks of the river and watch your enemies float by. . . Sean Connery said these words in a Bond film and they have saved me so many times from ripping into someone prematurely:) We are lining up on the banks of the river and with Veterans and individuals wrongfully discharged from their jobs and I can't wait!
Thinking about my Dad who served proudly in W W 2 and the Korean conflict. He would have thought Hegseth is a disgrace to the military and the Nation.
Absolutely Kegsbreath should be impeached along with the rest of them - Toady Blanche next?
TOADY BLANCHE will be DISBARRED!
Just wait!
My Vet would be my dad, who died via heart attack when I was 8 years old. So a long time ago but he was a Vet of WWII.
Impeachment isn't enough for Kegsbreath.
My husband was a Navy corpsman during Desert Storm and Desert Shield. He was there for the burning of the oil fields. He developed esophageal cancer and passed in July 2024. The only reason I watched the Arlington ceremony was for my husband and his father who is buried in Arlington. But seeing Trump and Vance there made me extremely sick. They have absolutely no right to be there. As soon as Trump started walking to the podium to talk, I turned off the video. Trump, Kegsbreath, Miller and everyone involved need to be charged with crimes against humanity. Since Kegsbreath is so into firing squad let him be in front of one.
Commander BONE SPURS has no idea the HELL he's created!
Former intelligence experts have spoken about the importance of the STRAIT OF HORMUZ in military planning.....
The incompetent BOOBS surrounding DEMENTIA DON know it ALL and created a CATASTROPHE due to their shared stupidity!
IRAN has united with RUSSIA and CHINA, among others....IRAN is mocking the U.S. and the CENTCOM BOOB ADMIRAL BRAD COOPER has become a CLOWN that's being mocked as well.
What an INTERNATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT THE U.S HAS BECOME!
ICE GESTAPO hired THUGS! REPUBLICANS REMAIN SILENT!
From WAPO:
At least 19 ICE recruits named in DHS hack were hired despite red flags
A Post review of records exposed in a DHS breach found that some immigration officers quickly hired last year were involved in past misconduct or criminality.
By Ted Hesson, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Razzan Nakhlawi, Maria Sacchetti and Aaron Schaffer
One officer in Detroit fired multiple shots at a fleeing teenage suspect, fatally striking him in the back in an incident that led to a $2.5 million settlement with his family.
An Arkansas officer was castigated by his supervisor for showing “unreasonable anger” while on the job, and fired after his boss expressed concern about what he might do “when he faces a civilian who he feels has disrespected him.”
Some officers went viral for embarrassing incidents, including a New York City detective who stole nearly $3,000 worth of high-end champagne at a music festival and a Mississippi officer who said under oath that he couldn’t remember core rights bestowed by the U.S. Constitution.
All of them share one thing in common: They were later hired as federal immigration officers to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
The Trump administration has onboarded thousands of new officers in an accelerated recruitment effort that has bypassed traditional background checks in favor of quickly putting people onto the streets to arrest undocumented immigrants. In recent months, at least two of those hires were involved in shootings, including one that resulted in the death of a 25-year-old Colombian father. Some have been fired after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement discovered red flags in their backgrounds that initially went undetected.
The names of the officers hired to scour residential streets, courthouses and airports have been shielded by the Department of Homeland Security, which cites privacy policies designed to protect them from harassment, even in incidents where they are involved in fatal use of force.
But that cloak of anonymity was pierced in late October when activists hacked a DHS employee database and released information about thousands of workers, including about 1,500 ICE officers and agents hired since Trump took office in 2025. The Washington Post performed background checks on about 300 of the new hires using standard public record searches to uncover information. While most of the officers were chosen at random, others were selected for review after being flagged by artificial intelligence. The Post has verified the authenticity of the database with current and former DHS officials.
The review offers the most comprehensive look yet at whom DHS hired when it urged people to apply to “defend the homeland” and offered a signing bonus of up to $50,000 for top recruits.
The Post found at least 19 officers who had faced past allegations of misconduct or criminal charges, or had other employment red flags. At least five involved use-of-force incidents, and five officers were named in lawsuits that resulted in settlements. In at least six cases, the officers had been fired or decertified, or resigned under threat of dismissal. The leaked information represents a small fraction of the 12,000 officers DHS said it had hired as of January.
Three independent experts with knowledge of law enforcement hiring and standards reviewed anonymized summaries of the cases at the request of The Post. They agreed that most of the cases should have warranted additional scrutiny before ICE made the hires.
John Roth, a former DHS inspector general, was one of the three experts who reviewed the cases for The Post. He said several examples suggested that ICE didn’t vet candidates properly or loosened its hiring standards.
All federal government job candidates are supposed to undergo vetting and background checks, including a scrub of their employment and criminal histories. Not all incidents are disqualifying. But Roth said that ICE should pick the most qualified officers who pose the lowest risk.
“This is a pretty bad list of conduct,” Roth said. “Absent some other kinds of facts that would exculpate some of these people, they have no business having a gun and a badge in the federal workforce.”
The Post filtered the leaked personnel records to identify officers and agents shown as having “activated” after Jan. 20, 2025, the day Trump took office. While The Post wasn’t able to independently confirm that that date always correlated with an individual’s exact start date at the agency, in many cases, the officer or agent had left their previous employer prior to the date, sometimes just days or weeks before.
DHS declined to confirm the identities of officers named in the hack or comment on the past allegations of misconduct. The agency also would not verify how many remain employed by ICE. Two of the 19 officers told The Post that they no longer worked for the agency.
An ICE whistleblower urged officials last year to halt the massive expansion, saying in a memo to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General in August 2025 that the “overwhelmed” agency had hired officers without checking their fingerprints or their identities.
In a statement to The Post, DHS defended its hiring practices, saying ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility “diligently applies the proper personnel vetting regulations.” The department added that officers are sometimes granted a “temporary status” while a full background check is pending. While the department said it was hiring “the best of the best,” it added that officers who don’t meet that standard could face employment repercussions.
A fatal shooting, a bloody pummeling
JeJuan Jetter was working undercover for the Detroit Police Department in August 2021 when the driver of a Dodge Charger lost control and struck his unmarked vehicle while allegedly drag racing.
Michael Contrell Adams III and several other passengers attempted to flee.
Jetter claimed that Adams raised a pistol and ignored commands to stop. He also said that he shot Adams multiple times before the 19-year-old turned and fled. A handgun was found near the front passenger side of the car, where Adams had been standing.
It is not possible to verify whether Adams resisted Jetter’s commands from the pixelated, black-and-white video of the incident, which has no sound. The security footage shows Jetter firing his first shot as Adams made a motion to flee. The next three shots were fired while Adams was running and at a distance from the car. The teen was pronounced dead at a hospital about 30 minutes later.
In a wrongful-death suit, Adams’s family denied that he was carrying a weapon. The Detroit Police Department settled with the family in 2024 for $2.5 million.
Jetter did not respond to requests for comment. The leaked database indicates he was hired as a deportation officer in Detroit last year.
The shooting wasn’t the only incident involving Jetter that occurred while he was with the Detroit Police Department. According to his disciplinary records, Jetter was suspended in 2018 for using “language of a profane nature” toward his child’s mother. He was suspended again the following year for using a Taser on a handcuffed detainee. In 2020, he was reprimanded for “purposefully turning off the in-car camera” while at a scene.
Jetter filed for bankruptcy in June 2025. Experts say a recent bankruptcy filing could be a red flag for law enforcement job candidates. While in some cases financial troubles are unavoidable, experts note that in others they can raise questions about judgment, and put someone at higher risk of being subject to blackmail or bribery.
David Robinson, an attorney who represented Adams’s family, said he wasn’t surprised to learn that Jetter was hired by ICE. During the course of his background investigation, Robinson said, he learned of what he believed were “personality issues” that made Jetter “the type of police officer that would have been characterized as over the top.”
“Officers like JeJuan Jetter act in brutal ways and largely without consequence,” Robinson said.
The Post found several other examples of ICE officers accused of excessive force in past jobs.
Jason Potter was working as an ICE deportation officer in Twin Falls, Idaho, in December 2025, according to the DHS data. Two years earlier, he was a police officer in Buhl, a nearby city home to 5,000 people.
In late December 2023, Potter helped force open the front door of a man’s home and drag him outside over a speeding violation, according to court records and officer body-camera footage of the incident. The Buhl Police Department chief used a Taser on the man as his wife screamed from inside the house. The couple’s young daughter was watching.
A federal magistrate judge ruled in September 2025 that the chief, Potter and another officer unlawfully entered the man’s house without a warrant. The family later settled with the city for $500,000.
Potter did not respond to requests for comment.
In another incident, in the town of Bel Air, Maryland, an officer investigating a report of a man arguing with neighbors was accused of tackling the man and smashing his forehead against a concrete sidewalk, leaving him bloody. A lawsuit was settled in January 2025 for an undisclosed sum. The officer, Logan Walsh, denied any wrongdoing. He and his lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.
Eight months later, Walsh was working for ICE, according to the DHS data.
Peter Mina, a former official in the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, was among the experts who reviewed the cases for The Post. He said any lawsuit would at a minimum need to be disclosed to ICE and should trigger a review that looks for possible wrongdoing.
Red flags in plain sight
Several of the officers previously made headlines for committing crimes or for how they enforced the law. The incidents were easy to find through a Google search. The Post used public records and social media to determine that the ICE officers named in the leaked data were the same officers accused of misconduct.
In May 2023, Joseph Joffrion, then a sergeant with the police department in Waveland, Mississippi, approached a man holding a sign outside the town’s city hall that said, “God Bless the Homeless Vets.” Joffrion asked the man, Jeffrey Gray, for his ID and threatened to arrest him for allegedly committing vagrancy.
Gray, a civil rights protester who posts videos to YouTube of interactions with police, told Joffrion that he was engaged in constitutionally protected activity. Gray was not charged.
A year later, Gray sued the department, Joffrion and another officer, alleging they had infringed on his right to free speech.
During a deposition, Joffrion was repeatedly asked about his understanding of constitutional rights. His responses garnered millions of views on YouTube.
“What’s your understanding of the First Amendment in the United States Constitution?” Gray’s attorney, Michael Reed Martz, asked Joffrion.
“I don’t recall,” Joffrion said. “I’m not an expert.”
“Do you know what the First Amendment protects at all?”
“I don’t recall.”
He also said that he did not recall the basic meaning of the Fourth Amendment, which protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Civil rights advocates have accused federal immigration officers of repeatedly infringing on the rights of protesters and immigrants who are being questioned about their status in the United States.
Joffrion resigned from the Waveland Police Department on Dec. 30, 2025, public records show. The DHS data indicates that he was working at ICE as a deportation officer the following Monday.
He did not respond to requests for comment.
Other new ICE hires had similarly drawn widespread attention on social media for misconduct in previous jobs.
Wojciech Czech was working as a New York Police Department detective assigned to narcotics enforcement at the Electric Zoo music festival in September 2022. The festival, held on Randall’s Island, drew tens of thousands of attendees.
Czech and two other officers were in the event’s VIP area around 7 p.m. when attendees ordered two bottles of Armand de Brignac, a high-end champagne commonly known as “Ace of Spades.”
When the attendees stepped away, one of the NYPD detectives took the unopened bottles, worth a combined $2,900, according to a related indictment by the New York district attorney announced in May 2023. Czech helped the other officer put them in a backpack.
A festival attendee saw them take the bottles and pursued them, the district attorney alleged. The officers attempted to go into a staff-only area but were confronted by a pair of attendees in front of an event security officer, who notified the NYPD.
Czech and the other officer were charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. Czech pleaded guilty to petty larceny in August 2024 as part of an agreement that required him to resign from the NYPD, the district attorney’s office said.
As of January 2026, he was employed as an ICE deportation officer in Phoenix, the hacked records show. Czech did not respond to requests for comment.
Unfit for local police, hired by ICE
Records reviewed by The Post show that in several cases, other police departments had previously determined that an officer wasn’t fit to serve.
Dnae Reo Blow was hired by the police department in Springdale, Arkansas, a city north of Fayetteville, in 2013. He was assigned to a “special response team” in April 2016, but he was terminated in November of that year after a confrontation with his supervisor, according to personnel records.
Blow was told to relieve a colleague from duty at a nearby emergency room but did not go right away and instead began “cussing in an aggressive manner” at his supervisor, he acknowledged in a statement he submitted after the incident.
As the encounter escalated, another officer described Blow clenching his fists and saying he wanted to do “bad things,” which the supervising officer interpreted as a physical threat.
“His unreasonable anger and failure to compose himself at a supervisor concerns me as to what he will do when he faces a civilian who he feels has disrespected him,” the supervisor wrote.
Two months later, Blow was employed at the Lowell Police Department in Arkansas as a patrolman and sought promotion to sergeant.
Blow, who is Black, did not receive the promotion and later said, in a 2018 civil lawsuit against the city of Lowell, that it was because of his race. The city denied that claim and said Blow was fired for “several instances of insubordination.” The case was dismissed without a court ruling on the allegations.
Blow did not respond to a request for comment. The leaked records indicate that he had joined ICE by October 2025.
Another ICE officer named in the leaked data, Timothy Keske, resigned from the police department in Berwyn, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, in October 2023 following disciplinary measures over excessive force, inflating tuition reimbursement requests and falsifying a police report.
In a 2021 incident, Keske asked a man to step out of his car after smelling marijuana, which is legal to possess in Illinois. When the man didn’t comply within half a minute, Keske tried to pull him from the vehicle despite no clear reason for arrest, according to an investigative report into the incident.
Keske and another officer then struggled with the man for five minutes before backup arrived, the report said.
The report called the use of force “hasty” and said it put the officers in a dangerous situation: Keske and the other officer were injured and their weapons were exposed as they struggled inside the vehicle.
“The officers took an enormous unnecessary risk,” the report concluded. Keske was suspended for two days as a result of the incident, according to a grievance filed by a local police union on his behalf.
In another incident, in August 2023, Keske sideswiped an Amazon delivery truck that was parked on the side of the road for deliveries, according to the findings of an investigation by the Berwyn Police Department.
An initial police report from the scene said the Amazon driver had hit Keske’s vehicle, and the driver was issued a citation and liable for damages, the investigation found. But the next day, a police commander “obtained video showing that the Amazon truck had been parked the whole time and the driver not in the vehicle,” the investigation said.
The investigative report, issued by Deputy Chief of Police Michael Ochsner, said that Keske admitted during an interrogation to submitting false reports, omitting evidence and improperly investigating his own case, among other violations of department policy.
“Based on these findings and previous history of discipline, he should be terminated from employment as a police officer,” Ochsner wrote in the December 2023 report.
The recommendation had no immediate effect, since Keske had resigned from the department two months earlier.
The hacked DHS records show that Keske was working as an ICE deportation officer in Chicago by December 2025. He did not respond to requests for comment.
The cases unearthed by The Post stemmed from a review of a small portion of ICE’s new hires. Mina, who also worked as the chief of ICE’s labor and employment division prior to his job at DHS, said expedited hiring could bring on candidates who may not be suitable for the job, posing a risk to the public, ICE’s credibility and the officers themselves.
“When you have a hiring process like this — where it’s quick and you’re missing stuff, as we’ve seen — inevitably that results in hiring people that probably shouldn’t have been,” he said.
Andrew Ba Tran contributed to this report.