ICE influencers, a world-record trade surplus, and the moon goes nuclear

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  NPR.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Whelan Wong.

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  I'm Darian Woods and we're joined today by Planet Money's Sarah Gonzalez.

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  Sarah, it has been too long.

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  It always feels too long.

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  Sarah,

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  you truly could not have picked a more beautiful day to come into the indicator orbit

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  because today is indicators of the week.

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  This is the day of the week when we talk about the most interesting numbers from the news.

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  On today's episode, we're talking about the Trump administration's ice recruitment strategy,

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  China's world record beating trade surplus and pack your dipping dots.

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  We're going back to the moon.

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  I'll bring some crackers for the cheese.

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  All right, so my indicator of the week is a hundred million dollars.

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  That is how much the Trump administration has set aside to spend on a one-year so-called wartime recruitment strategy to hire more immigration and customs enforcement workers.

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  So this is all according to a document that the Washington Post got a hold of.

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  It says that immigration officials plan to flood the market with millions of dollars worth of social media ads and to pay pro-ice social media influencers and other online creators to normalize and humanize careers at ICE through storytelling and lived experiences.

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  That's a quote.

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  Well, they're already making these, right?

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