• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Look, when I signed up to work for an agency that deports people to countries they’ve never been to, I was fine with it cause I was gonna get a lot of money. Now that I’m not getting that money, I obviously have to vote even harder for the assholes fucking me over because the brown people are the reason I didn’t get paid, not the president who routinely doesn’t pay people. This post was sponsored by the Heritage Foundation or some shit.

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    Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas. Could happy endings be expected with the group that hired them?

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    Well the current admin did promise to cut down on costs and actually letting them keep their bonuses would be a huge cost.

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    Remember, my friends, this is still part of the scam. Now they will file lawsuits, paid for by you and I, the taxpayers, and they’ll get partial bonuses paid out in the end.

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      It will probably be a class action lawsuit which famously really pays out the lawyers more than the actual plaintiffs. Just another way to grease the palms of the rich.

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    This is objectively funny.

    Fuck every single one of them. I hope they are financially crippled from this and learn something important about trusting authoritarians.

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      It’s even funnier. The bonus was taxable, they paid not a little bit of it to tax right away. They don’t get that refunded but they do still have to repay the 50K in full.

      In other words, trying to be a racist pieces of shit professionally was very expensive. As it should be.

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        Guess who those taxes are going to. This keeps getting funnier the more I think about it.

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      I don’t think that’s how these people are wired.

      They’re conditioned to blame others for their problems. They will just blame harder.

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    ICE has been quietly firing some of the roughly 12,000 officers it hired during its 2025 rapid expansion, citing background red flags that former DHS officials say should have been caught before hiring and because of poor performance.

    A whistleblower told the DHS Office of Inspector General in August 2025 that final job offers were being issued before fingerprint, identity, and credit checks were completed, and that some recruits began training or duty while investigations were still open

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      I shudder at the thought of what “poor performance” means at ICE. Not enough arrests? Not enough tasered people?

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        Probably more like tasering people while being filmed. As long as it’s off camera it never happened.

        And as funny as it sounds, it’s probably true. They have been told to be brutal, just don’t end up on the evening news beside a dead body.

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        In this admin poor performance could also mean not being harsh enough.

        There never was ask for competency, trump fires like for not being loyal enough.

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          A few months ago, I asked Lemmy how much I could expect to make if I went through ICE training, and quit immediately before my first operational deployment. I’d bet I wasn’t the only one to contemplate such a scam.

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        People who failed a psychological profile to become a cop

        Ex military that had war crimes and gross misconduct swept under the rug so higher-ups could save face?

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        Probably paperwork issues that delay full depotions. I could see the courts full of wrongfully arrest lawsuits because there US citazen paperwork was available but not filed correctly. It comes with the arrest now ask questions later mentality.

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        I wonder if any of those are non-fascists who joined with the intent of sabotage.

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      Not surprising given what we’ve seen reported: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html

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      Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job.

      According to the application portal, my pre-employment activities remained pending. And yet, it also showed that I had accepted a final job offer and that my onboarding status was “EOD”—Entered On Duty, the start of an enlistment period. I moused over the exclamation mark next to “Onboarding” and a helpful pop-up appeared. “Your EOD has occurred. Welcome to ICE!”

      I clicked through to my application tracking page. They’d sent my final offer on Sept. 30, it said, and I had allegedly accepted. “Welcome to Ice. … Your duty location is New York, New York. Your EOD was on Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.”

      By all appearances, I was a deportation officer. Without a single signature on agency paperwork, ICE had officially hired me.

      Perhaps, if I’d accepted, they would have demanded my pre-employment paperwork, done a basic screening, realized their mistake, and fired me immediately. And yet, the pending and upcoming tasks list suggested a very different outcome. My physical fitness test had been initiated on Oct. 6, it said: three days in the future. My medical check had apparently been completed on Oct. 6.

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      I’m surprised they are not getting the latino officers to drive a bus of deportees into Mexico and then not letting them back.

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      Offering the job before the background check!?

      Good gosh everyone involved in this should be fired and legally barred from ever being involved in hiring again.

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      citing background red flags that

      you fuck one goat…

      maybe apply with the FBI if that was the case ?

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      Stupids getting suckered and left holding the bag, not my problem.

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      This is exactly to motivate those thugs so they do everything that trump stays in power after 2029.

      Not only they might need to pay 50,000 that they probably already spent, but might be also told that they will go to jail for doing what they were told to keep that 50k.

      I wouldn’t be surprised that those fired ICE were fired, because they had issues with what they were told to do.

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      Eh, what you’re implying is not how these things usually work. If the government side terminates your contract early, you keep the bonus. I’ve seen it in the military. People signed with bonuses that the government paid up front. Then while the member was in tech school his position got cut (Air National Guard), so they ended his contract but he kept the bonus because he wasn’t the one that invalidated the contract. If it works the same and these ICE agents did get terminated by the next administration, they would still keep their bonus.

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    This move is right out of the Trump business playbook. He’s been not paying workers and committing fraud against contractors his entire adult life. Avoiding the payout was the plan from day 1 when the bonus was offered–I’m betting Trump himself recommended this outcome. Fuck ICE. I hope every agent experiences bankruptcy and hardship. They ruined their lives to serve a child-rapist.

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        The best they could possibly do is lock down the wife and kids of the couch f*cker.

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          That’s the craziest part, all these sociopaths in power have immigrant wives or parents, with Trumplethinskin being the prime example.

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            There’s good immigrants ans bad immigrants.

            The good one are rich enough or protected by people in power till they stop please them.

            The bad one are everyone else. But hey… The neat part is we include the white one.

            DEI Racism

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    Not only do these idiots get what they deserve, but it’s also hilarious that Trump is scamming and turning his most hardcore supporters against him