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usonian

(24,870 posts)
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 09:55 PM Dec 2025

Noem'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.html

Daily 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



No room here for juicy stories of trainees
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dixiegrrrrl

(60,156 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
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:25 PM
Dec 2025

Grins

(9,423 posts)
8. On radio this AM.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:33 PM
Dec 2025

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

(60,156 posts)
9. I'd be tempted to quit as an agent and then re-apply.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:37 PM
Dec 2025

Certainly would not make me feel like a valued employee.

flashman13

(2,341 posts)
10. Think about it for a moment. Why would anyone with a modicum of pride and self respect want the job?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 12:05 AM
Dec 2025

Not everyone is for sale.

flashman13

(2,341 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
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 01:03 AM
Dec 2025

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

(4,900 posts)
12. Apparently we have to get our domestic news from
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 12:31 AM
Dec 2025

The UK. Our own Press Corpse is worried about mergers to do, like, reporting.

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