ICE invokes Halo remake, seeks recruits to 'destroy the flood'

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a Monday flyer urging people to join the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) team with a graphic modeled after the Halo video game.

“Destroy the flood. Join.ICE.gov,” reads text overlaid on the graphic, shared on the social platform X, which features two Halo characters driving a vehicle through a grassy field.

Above the graphic, the official DHS account wrote, "Finishing this fight."

The advertisement comes three days after Microsoft and Halo Studios said a "modernized” version of the 2001 game would soon be released on PS5, Xbox Series X and Series S, and PC with "more weapons, vehicles and enemies."

Microsoft last released a remake of Halo in 2011.

ICE and the DHS did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment regarding why references to the video game are being used to recruit ICE agents. 

However, the DHS did release new numbers regarding ICE deportations on Monday. 

The department said 1.6 million people have voluntarily self-deported and more than 527,000 people have been removed through deportation efforts since President Trump returned to the White House.

“This is just the beginning,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in the Monday release.