Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE (www.nplusonemag.com)

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Customs and Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service were all recruiting at the event, but ICE was the main draw. Far more applicants stood in line to submit their resumes for deportation officer than for any other position on offer in the cavernous room.

Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. 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. The whole place looked and felt like America.

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[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

That is so real.. an amazing snapshot of people, I want to follow the author and keep reading them, but obviously this is a pen-name

[-] klu9@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago

"Yanis Varoufuckice" is a pen-name??? /jk

For anyone interested, it's a play on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

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