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ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
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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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[–] Mist101@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Who knew an ideology based on ruthless competition would fail at a task that requires cooperation?

[–] Vedlt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 week ago

Oh absolutely, but it fills me with hope that it is, and always has been, a doomed enterprise.