this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026

270 points (98.2% liked)

News

37364 readers

1055 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.

2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.

Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.

5. Only recent news is allowed.

Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.

6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.

7. No duplicate posts.

If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.

8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.

9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.

All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.

10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

JonsJava@lemmy.world

gedaliyah@lemmy.world

little_cow@lemmy.world

270

Teenage-Looking ICE Agents Spotted at LaGuardia Airport, Recruitment Practices Under Scrutiny (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/news@lemmy.world

69 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Deploying the Donald Youth now eh?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's actually the Pedo-Shitler Youth.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

oppa mar-a-lago style

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ICE is another republican “make work” jobs program with ZERO return on investment. These kids should be part of a federal workforce repairing our crumbling infrastructure, something that probably has a return on investment for taxpayers.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Negative return on investment. ICE teaches people to break up society, rather than come together to improve it.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not to mention it craters immigration.

While that may seem... obvious...

A whole buch of economic processes blow up without an influx of immigrants.

Tourism. Real Estate. Agriculture.

Its not shooting yourself in the foot, it's shooting yourself in the balls and dieing from severing your femoral artery.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

So it's alternative education for malicious people

[+] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

[deleted]

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

there was an article recently of a woman who applied to ICE to see what the process was like. She wasn't going to join, just seeing how much they vet someone. welp they don't. she didn't even go through with ANY of the verification process, she didn't submit anything for background checks, wouldn't confirm if she would proceed with the hiring process....and they still offered her a position. So essentially if you lack any kind of ethics or morals it's easy money. no training, no qualifications, nothing. they just want bodies who are more than willing to be Nazi's.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

She wasn't alone. She wasn't the only journalist to have that idea. I've read a few articles like that, and they are all basically the same. So much independent confirmation for history, awesome.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i know y'all don't like police, but my town is special in a lot of ways. TLDR a chair explodes

so like, having done a lot of social services stuff but not being an official social worker (just an executive for the org) i've gotten to work pretty closely with the local police. I've been really, really impressed with the force in my hometown. i will sing my hometown's praises to the end of the earth. there's something special here i don't know what. people look out for each other in ways i have not seen anywhere else i've lived. beyond southern hospitality. like even the northerners and southerners stopped fighting to plant gardens in their yards when they got in their 20s, started becoming friends and watching ball together. a lot of that was them having kids. a lot of that was due to our police force using a soft hand rather than a hard one, being in the high schools and getting to know the kids and helping and validating their emotions rather than arresting them. giving them a community that was not the gang. they'd learn who the gang members were and "troublemakers". The one thing they'd pay special attention to look for was gang members coming onto campus to recruit. folk who weren't students. those were the only people they'd tell they weren't welcome.

we went from 4 or 5 teenage shootings a year to 1 teen death a year, usually accidental. it happened the same time as decreases in violent crimes but like, the national average did not come down that much that fast.

like, to give an example of how people look out for each other here, a few years ago i went to the parade with my wife. i hadn't been to the parade in years. I love marching bands. Live music is. my. thing. So we get there 2 and a half hours early to get a good seat, because it's a parade and if you don't set a chair out overnight so it can get stolen by seagulls you won't get a good seat. And I didn't want to sit on top of any of my friends' buildings that year I wanted to see people. So I brought along one of those canvas camping chairs that collapses and you put it in a tube to carry it on your shoulder. People see me hobbling along with my chair and my cane and wave me over, they make room for me because Hey it's a guy with a cane let's give him a good spot even if he didn't get here 4 hours early.

I pop out my chair, set it down, lean my cane against it, sit gently down and all the plastic pieces on my chair explode off in every direction as my ass plummets toward the cements and everyone turns and looks in horror. Oh no. The disabled dude. Is he okay.

"AHAHAHAHAHA HONEY I JUST FATTED MY CHAIR TO DEATH"

The tension broke. a police officer was right there by the time i finished laughing to help me to my feet (one i'd taught martial arts to when we were both teens, funny enough. i'm not sure he recognized me. he still has hair the lucky bastard), two people offered me chairs which i declined because i saw two chairs at my favorite cuban brunch place not ten steps away. What. A. Dilemma. So we ate chilaquiles and drank cortaditos while watching the parade, and that's been our tradition ever since.

long story even longer, it's taken a long time but the police in my town have earned my trust.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Morals too developed? Just recruit them while they're still zygotes!

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But then again, our cops are friendly, helpful and nonviolent

I'd say it's a lot more likely that you're not aware of what happens in your super secret country you can't disclose.

It's a pretty safe bet:

If someone thinks their country is perfect, their country is just good at propaganda.

Because even people who live in the "best" countries have complaints.

[–] timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You do realise that "not being afraid of the police" is actually the norm in most developed democracies, right?

The state of the US police force is not some kind of act of God that nothing can be done about. You're just all too goddamned lazy and selfish to fix it (see also: healthcare, education, school shootings, ...)

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

You do realise that "not being afraid of the police" is actually the norm in most developed democracies, right?

For non-minorities, sure.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You do realise that “not being afraid of the police” is actually the norm in most developed democracies, right?

You do realize that perception doesn't match reality, right?

People not being afraid of police, doesn't mean they shouldn't be. Just that they haven't had a personal reaction yet...

Which is why no one will name one of these mythical places where police are helpful and not a danger.

Because if you did, anyone could explain what you're not noticing.

On some level, people realize that, or someone would have given one of the "many developed democracies" as an example.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Checking in from Norway. Can confirm that neither myself nor anyone I know has ever expressed that they're afraid of the police, or that they have reason to be. People I know include a fair number of people with minority backgrounds, criminal records, or both, so this isn't a statistic that comes from never interacting with the cops.

Sure, cops here can make mistakes, and sure, there are probably some people that shouldn't be cops who are. However, by and large, it typically becomes a national media case if someone is injured by the police. Excessive use of force seems to be very uncommon, and in the few cases I'm aware of where it's happened, the cops involved have been charged and sentenced for it.

It may seem alien to you, but when you build a well educated police force from people that actually want to help their communities, what you get is a police force that most people feel they can trust. When you follow up with clear corrections when some cop does something wrong, you end up with a system that most people feel they can trust.

Relevant link: The average Norwegian rates their trust for the police at about 7.5 / 10, which is the highest of any public institutions here (slightly above courts at 7/10, and a bit ahead of the parlament at about 6.7 / 10).

Edit: Some more details from the link above: Most European countries (Poland, Slovenia and Czechia excluded) rated their trust for the police above 6/10 in 2014, so this isn't some uniquely Norwegian thing. All the European countries investigated have in common that the police are rated highest out of the public institutions.

[–] welfare_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

There's plenty of people in Norway who are afraid of the police, especially minorities. We have discrimination going on just like everywhere else, it just doesn't reach the national news most of the time. The officer who killed Eugene Ejike Obiora not only got away scot-free, he's now the chief of operations for the local police force and continues to harass local minorities.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yeah, I live in Canada, and while the cops do some fucked up shit, it's not nearly to the level as US cops.

I never see a cop and feel scared for myself or anybody around me. At most, I feel worried that there's something happening.

load more comments (5 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

(deleted content)

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I mean…. German cops are friendlier than American cops, but they’re still bastards. Oury Jalloh, the fascist WhatsApp group from Hessen, and similar things happen here too.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but OP doesn't personally suffer....

Yet.

But if OP is convinced everything is fine, they'll never stop it from getting worse.

And eventually they'll transitions from "us" to "them" in the eyes of the government and police.

They're in that lazy compliance stage fascists support.

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’re from fantasy land where pigs aren’t bastards.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've not really met friendly German Police, but nearly all of them are very professional. If I had a problem or a comment, I had no reservations about talking to an Officer because they study and know their laws relatively well, and are strict with their processes when escalation is warranted

As with all areas, know what you can and can't do. Know what is suspicious and what's accepted in a culture that isn't yours. Most Polizei I've spoken with were more likely to talk to you or fine you before letting you go if you did something wrong (Polizei in Leipzig and Berlin can eat shit though).

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Shitler youth

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They like em young, dumb, and full of naively believing the game is zero sum

Believing that life is a zero-sum game may help create the very scarcity and hostility that the zero-sum mindset expects from the world. To create a different reality, perhaps we must first choose to play a different game.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would like to play the "people help each other and kill fascists and capitalists" game. I want to be part of a real community already. I'm sick of being an individual in a sea of individuals only looking out for ourselves. It fucking sucks donkey balls and makes me feel so fucking lonely.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

They look like they missed their chance at carrying out a school shooting and now they're hoping to make up for lost time.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hitlerjugend. You Americans are developing very fast.

[–] nednobbins@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Faster than you may realize.

Baden-Powell was inspired to start the Boy Scouts when he saw the 12-15 year old boys of the Mafeking Cadet Corp assisting the military during the Second Boer War.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

it's the haircuts

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bruh it be broccoli frfr

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I got that fluffy hair bro

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where is "big balls" working these days?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Full time government employee. Ironic.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I thought ICE could not operate without their face masks?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're just teenage looking guys. It worked for 21 jump street, it will work for the secret police.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably militia kids. Whole family is indoctrinated.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In their neck of the woods, this will count for military service:

"Did you serve?"

[quietly] "Yeah, I was embedded at MCO...Orlando INTERNATIONAL Airport. Saw stuff there I'll never unsee. I still get triggered by, uh, uh, mmmmickey."

"It's cool, man, it's cool..."

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, those two look like they should be studying for their civics midterms, not cosplaying jackboot goons.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

This article is fully written by ai I guarantee it

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I liked the guy on the left a lot better when he was fighting demogorgons.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He looks young, but who knows. A guy I work with is in his mid 30s, but could easily be mistaken for a teenager.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 1 month ago

People often think i'm 20 or younger and i turned 41

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, my first thought was these guys could be anywhere from 16 to 25.

load more comments