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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 71 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

It’s no secret that the Trump administration has been pouring money into ICE. Its annual budget – $6bn a decade ago – is now $85bn; ICE is now the highest -funded law enforcement agency in the US. Since last August, new recruits can expect to receive a signing-on bonus of up to $50,000. Karen’s experience has left her convinced that ICE agents are being given even more incentives – to arrest and detain anyone they possibly can, even blameless tourists who have all the paperwork they need to be in the US.

Knew they had sign-up bonuses, but had no idea that ICE agents were also given a bonus for locking people up - that's an absolutely perverse incentive for a job that should be as objective as possible.

No wonder innocent people are getting dragged off to detention centres (or worse), it literally pays for them to shoot now and ask questions later.

Also, the US government has $80 billion to throw at bloodthirsty hounds, but had to send DOGE to scrounge through various agencies to find a few billion? Something doesn't quite add up there, almost like the incentive wasn't finding money.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 9 hours ago

The main objective of doge was to export all agency data to thiel et al's private data banks. Their employees were recruited from those technofascist's drug and sex fueled parties, as young men, or underage young men, that were groomed for it.

Cutting money was at most secondary, information is power and now thiel and whomever else have more than anyone else.

[–] madjo@piefed.social 31 points 15 hours ago

DOGE was to cut agencies tasked with enforcing regulations. Specifically, but not limited to agencies that hurt Elon's bottom line.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

JFC, this makes total sense. They love touting arrest numbers, not deportation numbers. This is how they're able to make it happen.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago

Trump needs his personal army, separated from the justice and military apparatus, if he pays ice to satisfaction he has the material and manpower to fight off a growing rebellion...

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

Their actual job is to instill fear.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

It's not just Trump. Americans in general will do anything for money.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Because we need it to meet our basic needs. The other option is death.

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 9 points 13 hours ago

USA culture is capitalism.