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Nanjeanne

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Fri Aug 1, 2025, 08:35 AM Aug 2025

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

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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