Pentagon asks civilian employees to join 'volunteer force' to aid Ice deportations

[Demovictory9]

Pentagon asks civilian employees to join ‘volunteer force’ to aid Ice deportations |

Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/trump-hegseth-pentagon-ice

The Pentagon is recruiting civilian employees to join Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and asking staff to sign up for deployments to immigration enforcement facilities across the United States.

The defense department has posted a job listing requesting volunteers for civilian federal employees apply to join a “volunteer force” supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operations. On Wednesday, the department reportedly emailed civilian employees asking them to take up this opportunity.

“The Secretary of Defense has authorized DoD civilian employees to participate in details to the Department of Homeland Security to contribute to its operations along the Southern Border and its internal immigration enforcement activities,” reads the email, obtained by 404Media. Roughly 950,000 civilian employees work for the Pentagon.

Selected employees will reportedly “offer critical support” to Ice and the border patrol “as they fulfill the President’s intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system”.

[johnnyfins]

1. A half step away from outright vigilantes

[bucolic_frolic]

2. WHY would or should any civilian join the $100,000 Bonus Baby ICE Corps?

Does this make any sense at all?

[lame54]

3. Volunteer?...

ICE gets 50 down 100 a year and the volunteers get to clean up the dead bodies

[RainCaster]

4. The Pentagon asks for volunteers - never

They did that during the Viet Nam war. It was called the draft.

[Takket]

5. WTF? Volenteer? What happened to that $150 billion or whatever obscene amount congress just gave ICE

[AZJonnie]

6. I think it means they volunteer to leave whatever they're currently doing job-wise to do this other thing

They remain paid employees.

This is meant to root out people. Those who fail to 'volunteer' are not sufficiently loyal to the regime and therefore must be purged.