On 4 August 2026, Green Bay writer Brooke Teegarden published the latest instalment of an undercover online project using a satirical conservative persona to test MAGA men's views on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
In screenshots shared through her Let's Not Date account, she told one man, 'You only wish three-year-old girls were shot,' after leading him towards the story of a child whose father was fatally shot by an ICE officer. Teegarden first built familiarity as the right-wing woman he wanted to impress, then introduced the case detail by detail.
The exchange concerned Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian father fatally shot during an attempted ICE vehicle stop in Biddeford, Maine, on 13 July 2026. ICE said Guerrero tried to flee and an officer fired over public safety concerns, while local immigrant rights groups said he was authorised to work in the US and called for an independent investigation.
Witness accounts described Guerrero's three-year-old daughter standing nearby in Bluey pyjamas as a woman cried, 'You took her dad.'
How Brooke America Gets Into the Conversation
The 'undercover' element is digital rather than physical. Teegarden uses filtered blonde images, conservative styling and a fictionalised persona named Brooke America, which receives messages through Facebook rather than a dating app. 'Hi I'm Brooke and I play a satirical conservative named Brooke America,' she wrote while explaining the account.
Her method relies on pacing. She begins with sympathy, mirrors language about safety, asks basic questions and conceals a case's political identity until the man has expressed concern; when facts lose his attention, she has used flirtation or selfies to keep him engaged. In an earlier operation, she framed five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos' detention as an ISIS kidnapping, prompting a 60-year-old Trump supporter to demand action before researching the case and learning ICE was involved.
A Persona Built for a Continuing Series
The latest upload was presented as Part 27 of Teegarden's immigration series and carried the message, 'I'm here to break the hearts of ICE supporters.' It belongs to a larger body of work under Let's Not Date, where she tests how many strange statements a man will accept before abandoning his pursuit of the persona.
Her Make America Learn History Again project similarly uses inbox exchanges to share researched feminist, working-class and LGBTQ history with conservative men.
The projects can extend beyond one viral screenshot. Teegarden previously spent months speaking to a man identified as James, eventually securing a public anti-ICE post and getting him to question Donald Trump before conservative Facebook friends.
Another elaborate operation had a homophobic older man name two fictional male ICE agents before Teegarden slowly revealed that the story he was helping develop was a romance between them.
What Teegarden Says She Is Trying To Do
'I target the type of man who harmed me,' Teegarden has said of the older conservative men she selects. She describes the work as confronting attitudes towards women and marginalised communities while controlling an interaction in which the men believe they are pursuing her. She defines success more narrowly than conversion, saying 'winning is any moment where I do not feel afraid.'
The screenshots are curated exchanges, not polling, and cannot establish what all MAGA voters or ICE supporters believe. Teegarden conceals the men's identities and presents the conversations as satire, advocacy and documented online performance.
In the latest instalment, the headline quote is her accusation, not the man's admission: she is arguing that his loyalty to ICE outweighs his concern for the three-year-old girl at the centre of the case.
