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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Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 225d
No health insurance? Man, it would be really awful if they got hurt on the job. That would be really, really expensive for them. Even with worker's comp, they would still have to use their own insurance, or lack thereof, for treatment.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 225d
Would be a real shame wouldn't it 😂
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 225d
I'm glad this administration is so incompetent so the thugs carrying out the crimes are also suffering in some significant way.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 225d
WOMP WOMP gestapo cowboys get scammed
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 225d
Rot in hell ICE goons.
And kindly find yourselves cold, lonely, and miserable in the mean time, secure in the knowledge that you not deserve and will never be able to experience love.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 225d
Unfortunately their foreign-born immigrant wives will be there to console them … unless they get deported too.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 224d
That's exploitation not love.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 224d
These people don't know the difference.
iamericandre@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 225d
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 224d
What, you expected TRUMP of all people to honor his promises and pay his bills? You must've been born yesterday, you fucking rubes and marks. Take your awards and fuck off to hell, Fascist scum.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 224d
I like the part where they provided a linked source
swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 224d
https://ihsoyct.github.io/?backend=artic_shift&mode=submissions&subreddit=ice_ero&limit=100&sort=desc
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 224d
What, you mean you don't want to accept rumors about reddit posts as evidence? That's absurd!
Seriously though I'm just to cynical to take on faith that good things happen anymore, is there... any evidence to support this?
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 224d
Without good and authoritative backup sites for reddit posts it seems likely these would be edited out or deleted so there wouldn't be much point in directly linking them. Though not like there's anything proving they were real to begin with.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 224d
Archive sites exist and are commonly used - It's just depressing they didn't even do the bare minimum of effort like providing a screenshot to support the claims here.
OshagHennessey@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 224d
Lol. Lmao.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 8 pts · 224d
Of course they're not getting paid. All those budget increases were for the director, not the mooks.
DragonAce@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 225d
Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 225d
I know most people would say a lot of these guys are beyond redemption but man is that not a perfect chance to turn someone around away from what they know, I don't want to ide the them radicalize with them but if the last month or two can't be a pivot point for them I don't know
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 225d
Anybody who has not already left is irredeemable.
Gladaed@feddit.org · 0 pts · 224d
Although it may feel like it at times this is just wrong. Everybody deserves second chances. Doesn't mean you get off Scott free, though.
elbucho@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 224d
Every single minute of every single day, these pieces of shit choose to continue being pieces of shit. Fuck second chances... they're on like their 480,000th chance by now. And they're still doubling down on being pieces of shit. At some point, you just have to realize that they're not going to redeem themselves.
Gladaed@feddit.org · -1 pts · 224d
Yeah. People need to stop harmful behavior. But no one is incapable of change or beyond redemption.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 225d
If they're still there, still carrying out the abuse, they are beyond redemption.
RedSeries@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 225d
Oh no!
Anyway...
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 223d
I think lefty doctors should offer free medical care to ice agents and their families. It's only right. Treat them, and shackle them to a fucking rock somewhere.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 223d
Let their sick little piglets fucking die. This is the world they want. Let them feel it.
I don't know if it's right to kill their children, but i know by their own ethics it's wrong to interfere with their property.
fox2263@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 224d
The government doesn’t know how to do anything except what was already there. So new employees don’t get paid because they don’t know how to.