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Trump administration says teenagers can now be ICE agents
(www.newsweek.com)
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5774387
The Department of Homeland Security is scrapping age limits for new Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruits as it ramps up hiring with a major funding boost from Congress.
Previously, applicants had to be at least 21 and no older than 37 or 40, depending on the role within the agency tasked with locating, arresting and detaining noncitizens lacking legal status. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox & Friends that applicants as young as 18 could now be "trained and ready."
I take it that there aren't as many xenophobic, cruel and morally bankrupt people around in the U.S. to swell the ranks of ICE as they would have hoped.
Here's hoping the Republican voter base is terminally-online keyboard warriors just like me 🍻