ICE offers up to $50K signing bonuses, loan forgiveness in effort to hire 10,000 more officers

[Nanjeanne]

https://www.police1.com/border-patrol/ice-offers-up-to-50k-signing-bonuses-in-effort-to-hire-10]

Saw info on Democracy Now this morning so I looked for more information. Read article in link and be as angry as me.

Our taxpayer money is being used to hire ICE employees who are offering $50,000 signing bonuses, student debt forgiveness and more.

So we are giving not only signing bonuses but Debt Forgiveness to people who are hired to disappear people but we can’t pass debt forgiveness for teachers, doctors, nurses, etc.

ICE is launching a recruiting campaign to entice “brave and heroic Americans” to serve as new deportation officers, lawyers and investigators as the government gears up for a major expansion of immigration enforcement thanks to a recent infusion of money from Congress. The icing on the cake: a promise of up to $50,000 in signing bonuses.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement campaign, which rolled out late Tuesday, recalls recruiting posters from World War II with images of Uncle Sam and the words “AMERICA NEEDS YOU.” There also are photos of Trump and top homeland security officials with the words “DEFEND THE HOMELAND” across the images.

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1. I knew it would be something like this

Just hiring 10K new agents is gonna be tough. Police Departments have been dealing with staff shortages for a few years now, so if they're having trouble getting new people, ICE would also have issues in getting new hires.

[hunter]

2. Like the scene in Blazing Saddles...

[SSJVegeta]

3. Scraping the bottom of the barrel

[Bettie]

4. They should recruit at

hearings for domestic abuse, after all, that's who they're looking for.

Oh, wait, they probably are.

But those guys might not be quite violent enough for them.

[Passages]

5. From a strategic point it makes sense. If you, as an ICE employee had misgivings ?

About what you are being asked to do, they are throwing money to quell dissent. Additionally, hire more employees, keep them satisfied, and continue to perform a job that no decent person would want to do.

$$$$ can buy silence on their tactics. Hey, I was only doing my job! We will hear that over and over again before Trump's term is up.

[Nanjeanne]

6. It's like a SS Recruiting Ad

Your country is calling you to serve at ICE,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in a news release. “This is a defining moment in our nation’s history. Your skills, your experience, and your courage have never been more essential. Together, we must defend the homeland.”

Bolding mine.

[Emile]

7. Hey, that's my tax dollars you're throwing away!

Conservatives my ass!

[mike_c]

8. and yet we cannot afford health care or helping the poor

There's always money for hate. For war. For sensless cruelty.