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ArmchairAce1944 lemmy.ca ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca
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MrSelfDestruct lemmy.dbzer0.com RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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They should be put on a registry and limit their freedoms.

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NOT_RICK lemmy.world NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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Please be real

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ToiletFlushShowerScream piefed.world ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world
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Anyone provide a good source for this? I've no sympathy for those who joined ICE, but I've no tolerance for a government sponsored bait and switch either.

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bitteroldcoot piefed.social bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
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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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Jackusflackus lemmy.world Jackusflackus@lemmy.world
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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 we...

Please tell us you have a source for this, that is awesome

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givesomefucks lemmy.world givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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Anyone provide a good source for this? I've no sympathy for those who joined ICE, but I've no tolerance for a government sponsored bait and switch either.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ice+agents+fired+before+bonus

I'm betting that was faster than typing your comment...

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bitteroldcoot piefed.social bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
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Please tell us you have a source for this, that is awesome

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-recruits-dismissed-over-accelerated-vetting-concerns-1820091

paywalled:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2026/09/03/ice-whistleblower-background-checks-vetting-hiring-spree/30916fc0-a7e6-11f1-9e38-f705d048bd5a_story.html

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] reddthat.com WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com
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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 we...

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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TropicalDingdong lemmy.world TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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Ninja876 lemmy.world Ninja876@lemmy.world
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bitjunkie lemmy.world bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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lol

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LocalAreaMan lemmy.world LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world
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What if you happened to have spent it all on new and exciting looksmaxing medical procedures?

Asking for a friend.

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BonsaiBoo lemmy.world BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world
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Please tell us you have a source for this, that is awesome

The source has already been posted, but I remember a journalist reporting that she applied to ice and they hired her immediately without doing any background research and after she had responded saying she had recanted her application

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Warl0k3 lemmy.world Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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Aaaahahahaaaaa, oh the leopards are dining well tonight.

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Atelopus-zeteki fedia.io Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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I think we all have to thank ICE for doing what they can to break MAGA, and hand #47 a huge loss in November. BRAVO! STRONG WORK!

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ElectricAirship lemmy.dbzer0.com ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Iirc many of the signing bonuses required a contract of 5 years.

Which is conveniently 1 year longer than the president's term...

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blitzen lemmy.ca blitzen@lemmy.ca
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Read. Haha.

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saltesc lemmy.world saltesc@lemmy.world
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There's standards?!

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BoosBeau lemmy.world BoosBeau@lemmy.world
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ice+agents+fired+before+bonus I'm betting that was faster than typing your comment...

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=ice+agents+fired+before+bonus

I'm betting that was just as fast as grabbing your link...

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givesomefucks lemmy.world givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=ice+agents+fired+before+bonus I'm betting that was just as fast as grabbing your link...

Actually it isn't because then I'd have to type the noai full address to get to the page and then type in the search instead of just typing it in the address bar of a tab...

Like, I get what you're doing, but it would have literally taken over twice as long. Granted that's just a couple seconds.

But still

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manxu piefed.social manxu@piefed.social
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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 we...

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

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rynn piefed.social chahn.chris@piefed.social
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Anyone who knows anything connected to Trump it’s that he always looks to screw everyone over, especially those most loyal to him. He loved to prove people are suckers, like he gets off on this.

I hope this just increases the number of people that realize it, I don’t hope too hard, but I have hope…

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TrickDacy lemmy.world TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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Anyone who knows anything connected to Trump it’s that he always looks to screw everyone over, especially those most loyal to him. He loved to prove people are suckers, like he gets off on this. I hope this just increases the number of people that realize it, I don’t hope too hard, but I have hope…

Yep. His number one play is to promise things, usually payment, then never follow through. He should be an idiot who only got away with that once or twice. But apparently people are way too stupid to support that world. They'll fall for it endlessly.

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Kirp123 lemmy.world Kirp123@lemmy.world
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What if you happened to have spent it all on new and exciting looksmaxing medical procedures? Asking for a friend.

Time to looksmin and get your money back lol

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bitteroldcoot piefed.social bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
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I shudder at the thought of what "poor performance" means at ICE. Not enough arrests? Not enough tasered people?

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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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
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What do you mean same with 401k’s? They can’t take that back.

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ILikeBoobies lemmy.ca ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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They should unionize then.

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ILikeBoobies lemmy.ca ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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What if you happened to have spent it all on new and exciting looksmaxing medical procedures? Asking for a friend.

Back in my day we called lookmaxing gender affirming care.

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mrmisses lemmy.world mrmisses@lemmy.world
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nightwatch_admin lemmy.world nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world
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Time to looksmin and get your money back lol

“looksminority”
suddenly ice thugs everywhere oops

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lath lemmy.world lath@lemmy.world
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Wonder now many of those were involved in lethal shootings.

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nightwatch_admin lemmy.world nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world
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A Trump never pays his bills (or debts)!

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LikeableLime piefed.social LikeableLime@piefed.social
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Actually it isn't because then I'd have to type the noai full address to get to the page and then type in the search instead of just typing it in the address bar of a tab... Like, I get what you're doing, but it would have literally taken over twice as long. Granted that's just a couple seconds. But still

Set Noai. As your default search and it will use that when you type in the address bar

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adwijoma lemmy.ml adwijoma@lemmy.ml
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"B-but... we thought you liked and valued us because we were white enough."

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ParlimentOfDoom piefed.zip ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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Hiring people who are specifically filtered for their penchant for committing violence and then screening them over en mass definitely seems like a smart long term plan that can in no way backfire on the individuals very publicly engaged in this practice...

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Sanguine lemmy.dbzer0.com Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Lol, lmao even.

Delectable.

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ParlimentOfDoom piefed.zip ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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What do you mean same with 401k’s? They can’t take that back.

The company match often has a vesting period.

The funds you contribute they have no claim to, you're right.

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arak lemmy.today arak@lemmy.today
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Wonder now many of those were involved in lethal shootings.

None probably. They have quotas to meet

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tetris11 feddit.uk tetris11@feddit.uk
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Anyone who knows anything connected to Trump it’s that he always looks to screw everyone over, especially those most loyal to him. He loved to prove people are suckers, like he gets off on this. I hope this just increases the number of people that realize it, I don’t hope too hard, but I have hope…

Reminds me of every narcissist I've ever known...

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InternetCitizen2 lemmy.world InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
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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 we...

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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grue lemmy.world grue@lemmy.world
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I shudder at the thought of what "poor performance" means at ICE. Not enough arrests? Not enough tasered people?

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

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Smaile lemmy.ca Smaile@lemmy.ca
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Iirc many of the signing bonuses required a contract of 5 years. Which is conveniently 1 year longer than the president's term...

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

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Ninja876 lemmy.world Ninja876@lemmy.world
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The company match often has a vesting period. The funds you contribute they have no claim to, you're right.
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13igtyme startrek.website 13igtyme@startrek.website
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Most companies have a longer vesting period than 18 months. Most are closer to 5 years.

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Lucidlethargy sh.itjust.works Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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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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flandish lemmy.world flandish@lemmy.world
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#47 · Quote Reply

capitalists gonna capitalism.

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Lemmyoutofhere lemmy.ca Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
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They were probably fired for NOT having a rap sheet with assaults on minorities.

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Doomsider lemmy.world Doomsider@lemmy.world
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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 we...

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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tazeycrazy feddit.uk tazeycrazy@feddit.uk
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I shudder at the thought of what "poor performance" means at ICE. Not enough arrests? Not enough tasered people?

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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RobotsLeftHand lemmy.world treesapx@lemmy.world
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Stupids getting suckered and left holding the bag, not my problem.

But also making a violent, lawless, militarized force loyal to one person, not the office.

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