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submitted 2 months ago by Salamence@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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."

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[-] Penguin_1024@piefed.zip 39 points 2 months ago

I had heard they were having trouble recruiting. Hopefully this is a further sign of that.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Amazing how even providing $50k in signing bonuses, paying up to six figures, "enhanced" benefits (whatever that means), and waiving student loans in this economy STILL isn't enough for them to find people.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 months ago

A lot of candidates probably balk at the thought of becoming SS-like goons because ya know, morals...

And even those without any morals probably reckon Trump and his fascist henchmen won't always be there, and then they'll be held accountable for what they did during the Trump regime.

That's also why ICE wants to hire teenagers: kids often don't think things through and are more easily manipulated.

[-] bear 16 points 2 months ago

That's why military recruiters target highschools.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

And lie to the high schoolers. Get everything in writing kids, don't believe a word they say.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

im going to hazard a guess, that the 50k bonus wont be upfront, but for an extended amount of time. they are probably not going to end up honoring it in the end.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

Art of the Deal: Make a deal, then renege.

[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's a giant asterisk on their website where it says the "up to 50k in bonuses" but it doesn't actually have anywhere that explains what the asterisk actually means (like the terms of the benefit and bonus eligibility).

That asterisk definitely should just read: "you're definitely not getting 50k, this is a blatant lie and you're gonna get fucked like the rest of Donnie's little helpers"

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Wait, $50k sign on? Oh your God.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

hope it sticks to their resumes like cancer

[-] AlecSadler 21 points 2 months ago

This sucks, but also it gives me a sliver of happiness that they couldn't find enough candidates given previous criteria.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

And they got themselves their very own Hitler Youth

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Towards the end there for Hitler, he could only get the Hitler youth and old people left to fight for him.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

So are we just going to start up the ICE draft next?

I’ll shut up before they start getting ideas.

[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Idk. They want loyalists but they're putting a lot of money on the table. I'm not sure what meta they're following. I'm honestly a little surprised they couldn't find enough white supremacists to join up - It's like the military, but you stay in the country? I thought racists would jump on that.

I don't think they'd draft me. I'm their political enemy, I'd be used for slave labor

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

There are a LOT of horrible people in this country, but not as many as it seems. They're just hugely overrepresented in the government.

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Never been more thankful to just be diagnosed with heelspurs less than 2 weeks ago.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

They'd better be prepared for a lot of Full Metal Jacket incidents if they do.

[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 months ago

I'm glad we CUT VA Benefits and Social Security for this!

[-] PagPag@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For anyone else questioning the source…I fully understand. Why they don’t link to the official website is beyond me but someone has to fact check, because the writers at Newsweek are less than mediocre (at best).

How hard is this?

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Here's hoping the Republican voter base is terminally-online keyboard warriors just like me 🍻

[-] bdot@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

it’s ridiculously unsettling how American headlines are so frequently indistinguishable from parody

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Hitler's Youth

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Release the Epstein files

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Trump likes them young. No question about it.

[-] raman_klogius@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago
[-] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 months ago
[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

gotta get those proudboys

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