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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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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're illiterate. Actually illiterate.

[–] III@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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 1 points 1 week ago

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