• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    13 days ago

    I just read that they were hiring thousands of new ICE agents to round up illegals. Who do you think is going to sign up for that duty? And get paid for it, too? Not the best and brightest, we know that.

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        13 days ago

        Whoa.

        But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America.

        People attempting to hide in the belly of the beast, perhaps? I wonder how that’s gonna work out.

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          13 days ago

          I suspect many are just looking for a paycheck. ICE agents are slated to be pretty well paid from what I’ve read. We just handed over a historic amount of money to them as well, and even though I expect a large amount of institutional corruption, a significant percentage of it is going to go to personnel.

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            8 days ago

            In addition to obscene salaries they’re likely robbing detainees of any cash and personal items they were carrying. No due process or criminal charges means that there’s pretty much no legal requirement to keep or return personal items like police normally do (TSA has been robbing travelers for years too) ICE can pretty much do what ever they want with it because the detainees aren’t able to complain or press charges.

            So yeah, pretty lucrative. Gold is sky rocketing so lots of wedding rings and watches are headed to pawn shops. Nazis pretty much did the same during the holocaust.