This is breaking and exclusive reporting — and it cuts straight through the Trump administration’s tough-guy narrative. Leaked internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security show ICE scrambling after the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota, with agents reportedly afraid to go to work, leadership quietly worried about backlash, and morale sinking fast. We also sat down with independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, who first reported the leaks, to understand what these documents really reveal. Then, within hours of that reporting, a DHS whistleblower appears to have released sensitive personal details tied to thousands of ICE and Border Patrol employees — a stunning escalation that underscores just how volatile this moment has become.
We’ll break it all down below — what the internal DHS documents actually show, what Klippenstein told us about the fear inside the agency, how the whistleblower leak changed everything, and why this moment matters.
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