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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's by design. If you want to hire bottom of the barrel, you can't have any standards or loops to jump through, or you might lose applicants. As a bonus, people who recognize this won't even apply. As another bonus, articles keep spawning that make ICE out to be a badly run organisation of idiots, when in reality it's actually exactly what it's meant to be and run by ruthless fascists.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

They are the SA, no ? So what are the SS gonna be and who's lined up to manage them?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It might not be the best idea to expect this to 1:1 emulate history - ICE is being set up to be both the SA and SS, but neither exactly resemble the former groups. It's a useful metaphor, but overfitting is possibly a trap for us to fall into.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 3 hours ago

Being made privately from their favorite troops of ICE / CBP

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder if I should tell My disabled nonbinary partner to sign up for ICE, grab the 50 grand, and flee the country with it

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The sign on bonus is a retention bonus for staying 5 years. You, myself, the entire world know he is not good for paying bills.

Every single member eligible hire will be let go at 4 Years 354 days, or just not paid at all. See the $2,000 Check they were going to send to every American.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 3 hours ago

grab the 50 grand, and flee the country with it

Usually sign on bonuses are broken out over a period of time, you'd receive say 25% in your first paycheck, 25% after 3 months, 25% after 6 months and the last 25% after 12 months. Or in my wife's case when she took a CNA role in 2021 she got $1k in the first paycheck, $1k after 3 months and the last $1k after 6 months for her $3k sign on bonus

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nice work! However, an ICE agent is an ICE agent...get the rope!

[–] theQuickBrownFox@lemmy.today 9 points 3 hours ago

name checks out

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

If we end up making it through midterms without martial law, at the very least they've put themselves together in a nice list to deal with once cleanup takes place.

[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Free ice!! Great my freezer is on the outs

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Ok so I can't read the actual whole article because apparently it's paywalled but from the bit I was allowed to read (and the writing style seems to pad out quite a bit so it never actually gets really to the point) seems to indicate that they are just trying to hit targets which is why they're not checking people.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 3 hours ago

Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller has demanded a daily quota of scalps, and they haven't been able to come close, even with their openly Unconstitutional tactics, because his quota is comically high. So PeeWee Himmler is demanding a comically high number of agents to accomplish it.

He's a psychopath who probably goes into screaming fits at the slightest provocation, so they are desperate to keep the lid on his fury, so they are hiring as many breathing bodies as possible, no matter what it takes.

I'm definitely too old, but they have a really good signing bonus, and I could use the money, so now I'm considering signing up, just for the money, and the fun. I'd love to get in there, collect a fat paycheck, and be ridiculously incompetent at the job. It's a government job, they won't fire me, and they need warm bodies really badly. So they'll just probably stick me in a dark office somewhere where I can doze all day, and scroll my phone, and fuck up everybody's paperwork on the computer. Maybe I'll bring my guitar into the office to play while the boys are out building up their charges for their future court cases.

BTW, they get 47 days of training. Do you know why its that specific number? Because Trump is the 47th president. That means someone decided to make the training period that length because they knew Trump would hear about it, and they wanted to get that little rimjob in to please him.

What a bunch of fucking losers.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

So, why aren't people applying for these jobs so they can go undercover and expose identities and illegal conversations?

If they're desperate to hire it should be pretty easy to get in.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

Friendly fire.

I'm not gonna "join the NSDAP" and have that permanently tainting my name just for the off chance of getting that document to "expose" them... which probably wouldn't do much if there is zero resistance.

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

My excuses are:

  1. I don't live in the US
  2. I don't wanna quit my job.
[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Could be an interesting holiday for a few weeks. Fly in on a tourist visa, do the theme parks, get a job at ICE posing as a US citizen, leave with enough money to pay the first month's credit card repayments on your FastPass.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I would just do my job extraordinarily poorly and dox everything and everyone I worked with.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, just be completely incompetent. They're so desperate to hire anyone they can get, it's a government job, and they have a bottomless budget, so they won't fire you, they'll just put you where you'll do less damage, like a desk job, with a computer, where you can fuck up everybody's paperwork, lose evidence, deport EVERYBODY to Florida and set them loose (the weather's nice, and it will infuriate DiSantis), etc.

Keep your boss on his toes explaining all the fuck ups coming out of his office.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 10 hours ago

i think a whistleblower just released/doxxed like thousands of members recently

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

This is pedo Antoinette’s SA. The SA in Germany terrorized the Jews and opposition into submission by the time the Gestapo took over. The SA was considered undisciplined and the SA leader was killed in the night of the long knives. Members of the SA that didn’t make the cut were sent to fight Hitlers imperialist wars or man the concentration camps.

[–] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So I guess the question at this point is, will there be a "gestapo" to take over from the SA, or will this be the extent of it?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

It certainly looks like facism is winning at this point. I don’t see how we get out of this without armed resistance but maybe I’m wrong idk

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I'd say it's 50-50 at this point, which is an improvement over a few months ago.

There are a LOT of cracks in the MAGA walls, even other MAGAs are starting to question what's going on, and they are almost certainly going to be brought down by their own virtuosic incompetence. The problem is the damage they'll do along the way, so we have to shorten their decline as much as possible. We can't afford a long drawn out fight.

It starts with the Midterm. election, which Trump has to stop. The Democrats are almost certainly going to win in a bloodbath of possibly historic proportions, and take the House Majority, possibly the Senate, and take control of investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers. That would kick off a two year period of impeachments of all the Trump all stars - Noem, Hegseth, Homan, etc., maybe even Clarence Thomas. They wouldn't get convicted in the Senate, but they'd be forced to explain themselves in front of the American people. They'd also kill his legislative agenda, and substitute their own.

Trump can't have that happening, so he's going to do anything he can to rationalize suspending elections, and that is a BRIGHT RED LINE that can't be allowed under any circumstances.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 3 points 9 hours ago

How do you come to this conclusion? What I see is the administration consistently failing to execute on their domestic agenda and backing down. Their National Guard deployments were shut down by the courts. ICE is nowhere close to meeting their stated goals, and becoming less popular by the hour. They can't even fill the positions they have, nevermind growing it larger with the new budget. Even Jimmy Kimmel is still on the air.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 117 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The Minnesota subreddit apparently knows ICE Agent Greg Bovino.

Hello, Minneapolis resident here but I didn’t always live in Minneapolis. Once, long ago I lived in a quiet little mountain town of Boone, NC. Guess who else grew up there? A pathetic squat little toad named Gregory Bovino. Well, that squat little toad grew up to be a squat little Nazi toad who has decided to come to my beautiful adopted home to torture, murder, and terrorize my friends and neighbors. He is personally going door to door, so if you see him, here’s a few very specific things from home you can politely yell at him:

“Hey Greg! Remember how your Dad murdered a woman in Blowing Rock while driving drunk? Like father like son I guess.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/ICEwatchMN/s/3RvpY5NerM

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 30 points 19 hours ago

That was a fun thread

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 14 hours ago

Brb, signing up rn... I know of some illegals wearing red hats and flying enemy flags

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It's all proud boys and other fascist groups. They are now all going round terrorizing America. A fascist's wet dream.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago

Yeah it’s the the right wing militia groups joining ICE. They’re advertising directly to them.

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/13/dhs-ice-white-nationalist-neo-nazi/

[–] user_name@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The army actually puts the effort into make sure they don't hire psychos. You want people who will follow orders and not just go off and do their own thing because they like power.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 11 hours ago

The army actually puts the effort into make sure they don’t hire psychos

A guy literally put their reason for joining "to kill muslims" and was trained to do so, then sent to do so. Then the army acts like this is an isolated event when he gets caught murdering entire families.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

An army has fitness tests and boot camps to filter out people unable (or unwilling) to follow orders. This is just them blindly opening the door to meet impossible hiring targets so the Whitehouse nut jobs don't yell at them

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 132 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Americans have the opportunity to do a very funny thing now...

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 42 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder if I, a european, could get enlisted with ICE. Would they be dumb enough for that?

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They'd probably hire you, but then you'd have some trouble when they need your identifying documents for tax purposes/to get you on the payroll.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

i wonder if they are paying under the table too.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 23 points 19 hours ago

You seriously need to ask? I'll bet you just act like an angry moronic asshole, and you're qualified!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

someone just leaked 4500 ice members Identies.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 85 points 20 hours ago
[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 45 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine them hiring undocumented migrants and never finding out about it

[–] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Those are the "good" ones.

Until it's their turn.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago

They really don't care. It's only about the color of your skin. If you are perceived as other you are a threat to them. The country is run by white supremecists.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 72 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Phew! At LEAST they're Allowing these Unknown and Heavily Armed Men into our Schools and Kidnapping our Children!

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 45 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t forget that every single one of those unknown, heavily armed men are choosing to be ICE. They want to do that.

Imagine being so bereft of a conscience that you put on a mask and camo for Donald Trump.

A significant number are probably people who were convicted of crimes relating to January 6th, 2021 and now have free rein to do what they want.

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