Despite a historic recruitment drive that added 12,000 agents in recently, the agency's administrative backbone appears to be buckling, with employees desperate enough to turn to the Reddit to detail their struggles.
In raw, unfiltered Reddit posts now spreading beyond law-enforcement circles, ICE officers describe going a month or more without a paycheque, struggling to secure medical cover for sick children, and watching promised bonuses quietly stall.
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seahorse@midwest.social · 89 pts · 194d
Get grifted you fucking nazis
Ascrod@midwest.social · 74 pts · 194d
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 31 pts · 194d
"too-fancy weed store". 😄
kamenlady@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 194d
Ngl i had this once. There were so many cool things to look at, i almost forgot what i was there for. I felt bad for only wanting to buy some papers for € 1.
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev · 59 pts · 194d
I saw a video talking about the $50k bonus promised to new ICE sign-ups and how it wasn't actually a bonus because it's structured like a payday loan.
They receive the first $10k after 90 days if they remain in "good standing" (the actual requirements to meet this are unclear and could be something as simple as no write-ups, to something insane like "must make 8 arrests per day"). Every year for the next 4 years, they receive another $10k as long as they continue to qualify.
However, if at any time during these 5 years they lose "good standing" or do something else to disqualify themselves for the bonus, they have to pay it back. Again, it's not clear how much they'll have to pay back, but clawbacks are in the agreement they sign.
Who wants to bet that these ICE jockeys didn't read the fine print before signing up?
curiousaur@reddthat.com · 25 pts · 194d
They're illiterate. Actually illiterate.
III@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
Why would Donald "Literal new Jesus" Trump screw them over? He only screws over everyone he has ever dealt with ever during his entire life. But ICE recruits? Come on, the most perfect manly alpha male that has ever walked this earth would never? Not once...again, after having always doing it before. How?...
Taldan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
That's a common structure in the tech world for sign on bonuses. Makes me wonder if Peter Thiel and his ilk have a hand in it
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip · 53 pts · 194d
Get fucked and step in front of a bus. No one cares, and I cant wait to read your obituaries so I can dig up your corpses and burn them.
Fuck fascists.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 45 pts · 194d
Good, fuck them fascists to death.
Mist101@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 194d
This, this is where my hope remains. Not in the protests, not in the solidarity, not in the lobbying, it's the fact that McShitMyPants is incontinent and incompetent and their whole group cannot help but eat each other.
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 194d
I just finished reading "a game of birds and wolves" about the anti-uboat war game that came up with the tactics that eventually won the battle of the Atlantic, and my biggest takeaway is that Germany could never have won. Eventually, Fascist regimes fall to infighting and paranoia. It happened then, it will happen now.
Vedlt@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 194d
While true... a whole lot of people died needlessly and horribly "then" and I think people kind of want to stop that happening "now"
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
Oh absolutely, but it fills me with hope that it is, and always has been, a doomed enterprise.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 194d
Who knew an ideology based on ruthless competition would fail at a task that requires cooperation?
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d
We just have to keep applying pressure. They will break. We will not.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
That sounds like a cool read?
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
It was a little dry, and the story meandered back and forth a bit, but it was fascinating.
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
Also, I just noticed your name. My favorite horse!
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 194d
Certainly a short-sighted high school dropout wannabe cop could’ve seen this coming
pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 194d
Should’ve would’ve.
Laereht@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 194d
Idiots desired a businessman in the white house but were unfamiliar with what that meant. He really just wants to tear everything we have down and sell the country for parts.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 194d
Some kinda sleazy used nation salesman
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 194d
This is FAKE NEWS! I'm an ICE Agent and EVEN though I STILL haven't Been Paid I'm NOT Complaining because Trump is allowing me to LIVE my Dream of KIDNAPPING AND RAPING CHILDREN WITH FULL TAXPAYER FUNDED BACKING! And if this Statement is FALSE then WHY Aren't we Allowing Lawmakers Cameras Journalists or Law Enforcement INTO our Child Raping Facilities? LIBTARDS!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 194d
Have the day you signed up for, morons!
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 194d
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
Gift them some lead if they try to gift you some.
danekrae@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 194d
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 194d
Good, Fuck em.
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 194d
The grift knows no bounds.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 194d
I'm pretty sure I got two in my neighborhood. They were both jogging for about a month and then quit. I still see one of them and he has the rapist/murderer crew cut now.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 194d
Use those complaints to garner sympathy at the Hague.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 194d
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Catma@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
Any competent dictator knows you need to pay your army or you lose everything.