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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNoem's ICE hiring chaos laid bare as fat, illiterate & violent misfits 'not ready to tie their own laces' are recruited
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15345295/ICE-campaign-hire-deportation-officers-unfit-violent-illiterate.htmlDaily Mail, archived: https://archive.ph/nip8N
An exhaustive Daily Mail investigation has exposed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lowered standards so dramatically that the new cohort now includes recent high school graduates and applicants who can 'barely read or write' as well as those who lack basic physical fitness and even have pending criminal charges.
Most of the new hires in the $30 billion initiative are retired law enforcement who are receiving virtual training and being repurposed for desk duty.
Meanwhile, total novices are being fast-tracked into the Federal Law Enforcement Training Academy in Georgia, where instructors have been left astounded at the levels of incompetence.
'We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English,' one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told the Daily Mail
Most of the new hires in the $30 billion initiative are retired law enforcement who are receiving virtual training and being repurposed for desk duty.
Meanwhile, total novices are being fast-tracked into the Federal Law Enforcement Training Academy in Georgia, where instructors have been left astounded at the levels of incompetence.
'We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English,' one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told the Daily Mail
No room here for juicy stories of trainees
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Noem's ICE hiring chaos laid bare as fat, illiterate & violent misfits 'not ready to tie their own laces' are recruited (Original Post)
usonian
Wednesday
OP
Fodder. Just like putin's front line troops. Easy to train: "They's the enemy - kill!"
erronis
Wednesday
#1
Wonder if skilled ICE employees are gonna stay on the job if they are forced to work with newly hired idiots.n/t
dixiegrrrrl
Wednesday
#5
Think about it for a moment. Why would anyone with a modicum of pride and self respect want the job?
flashman13
Wednesday
#10
erronis
(22,262 posts)1. Fodder. Just like putin's front line troops. Easy to train: "They's the enemy - kill!"
Celerity
(53,311 posts)2. fat, illiterate and violent misfits............ AKA Trump's core supporters

Crunchy Frog
(28,200 posts)3. Fat, drunk and stupid now has a career path.
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2naSalit
(99,340 posts)4. Just her type!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,136 posts)5. Wonder if skilled ICE employees are gonna stay on the job if they are forced to work with newly hired idiots.n/t
PatSeg
(51,673 posts)6. Good question
There does seem to be some extraordinary bonuses involved however.
Efilroft Sul
(4,267 posts)7. Stupid iceholes.
Grins
(9,186 posts)8. On radio this AM.
Park Police recruiting ad. Offering a $70,000 signing bonus!
And these are the guys they hiring? And giving whopper signing bonuses?
Imagine how pissed the active force must be hearing that.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,136 posts)9. I'd be tempted to quit as an agent and then re-apply.
Certainly would not make me feel like a valued employee.
flashman13
(1,863 posts)10. Think about it for a moment. Why would anyone with a modicum of pride and self respect want the job?
Not everyone is for sale.
Hieronymus Phact
(711 posts)11. you are when you're unemployed -nt
flashman13
(1,863 posts)13. Just speaking for myself, I would dig ditches or wash dishes first. It's the easy money and the taste of power that
attracts these people. I don't think simple unemployment has much to do with it.
I stand by my original statement. Self respect and pride are their own reward.
Hassler
(4,699 posts)12. Apparently we have to get our domestic news from
The UK. Our own Press Corpse is worried about mergers to do, like, reporting.
Brother Buzz
(39,410 posts)14. "Join Ice" - Jesse Welles
flvegan
(65,571 posts)15. "fat, illiterate and violent" no better description of MAGA may exist.
maspaha
(696 posts)16. Only the best for Trump