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ICE agents fired just before probation ends and forced to repay signing bonus.
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chilicheeselies lemmy.world chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
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#102 · Quote Reply

I take two things from this:

  1. The guys they are attracting are so incompetent that they can't make it through their probation period.
  2. They either are generally incompetent, or not savage enough. One of these is funny, and one of these is deeply concerning.
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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#103 · Quote Reply

What movie is that from?

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, specifically the episode Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare

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adjectivenoun lemmy.world adjectivenoun@lemmy.world
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#104 · Quote Reply

I think I speak for all of us when I say,

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA

HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA

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ulkesh piefed.social ulkesh@piefed.social
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#105 · Quote Reply

Boo fucking hoo, you Nazi pricks.

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Murse slrpnk.net Murse@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2026-03-07
#106 · Quote Reply

Cool. Now make like a good Nazi by taking after your role model and painting the ceiling red. Fucking traitors.

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Funkt4st1c lemmy.world Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-30
#107 · Quote Reply

I take two things from this: The guys they are attracting are so incompetent that they can't make it through their probation period. They either are generally incompetent, or not savage enough. One of these is funny, and one of these is deeply concerning.

Secret third thing: they never intended to keep them in the first place, and it was a scam the whole time. I doubt 1 or 2 are even plausible.

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Tyrq lemmy.dbzer0.com Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-10
#108 · Quote Reply

Secret third thing: they never intended to keep them in the first place, and it was a scam the whole time. I doubt 1 or 2 are even plausible.

Everything they do is a scam, so this tracks

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nickiwest lemmy.world nickiwest@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-01
#109 · Quote Reply

Secret third thing: they never intended to keep them in the first place, and it was a scam the whole time. I doubt 1 or 2 are even plausible.

It's not a secret third thing.

As soon as we heard that the signing bonus was related to a probationary period, everyone who knows anything about how Trump does business said, "Nobody is getting that bonus."

It's extra shitty if they paid it out up front and now the employees have to pay it back, but none of this comes as a surprise.

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nickiwest lemmy.world nickiwest@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-01
#110 · Quote Reply

Oh no, person who is notorious for not paying people finds excuses to not pay his Nazi secret police

I wonder at what point those people finally turn on him. Usually, failure to pay a group results in mutiny of some kind.

Maybe they are so brainwashed that they believe whatever their superiors are saying to gaslight them about failing the probationary period.

Or maybe DHS was smart enough to hire a bunch of people who didn't meet the criteria just so they could "finalize the background check" and fire them right when it was convenient.

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Denfa lemmy.world Denfa@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-08-31
#111 · Quote Reply

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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GuyFawkesV lemmy.world GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-19
#112 · Quote Reply

Best thing I read all day!

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Denfa lemmy.world Denfa@lemmy.world
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#113 · Quote Reply

One was fired by two departments for misconduct before being hired by ICE. They retractively checked his past, fired him, and he committed suicide.

So they can do something useful afterall

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Denfa lemmy.world Denfa@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-08-31
#114 · Quote Reply

"Oh no, would you look at that, you wore white socks after Labor Day. And just two days before you qualified for benefits, darn it"

I love watching Conservatives getting hoisted on their own Petard--they are the reason At-will employment exists

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MrShankles reddthat.com MrShankles@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
#115 · Quote Reply

Now that's some good fucking news. Get fucked

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SuperNovaStar lemmy.blahaj.zone SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-11-12
#116 · Quote Reply

It's not a secret third thing. As soon as we heard that the signing bonus was related to a probationary period, everyone who knows anything about how Trump does business said, "Nobody is getting that bonus." It's extra shitty if they paid it out up front and now the employees have to pay it back, but none of this comes as a surprise.

It's extra shitty if they paid it out up front

It does, in fact, seem like that's the case

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Gammelfisch lemmy.world Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-05
#117 · Quote Reply

LOLOLOL! F-them and they should have known better. MAGA will screw you.

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Shindo66 lemmy.world Shindo66@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-28
#118 · Quote Reply

A critic reference in the wild!!!

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Aneb lemmy.world Aneb@lemmy.world
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#119 · Quote Reply

It's extra shitty if they paid it out up front It does, in fact, seem like that's the case

It's only the case because Trump is using taxpayer money and not from his pocket. If he had to personally pay the signing bonus they wouldn't get one even if it was promised. If Elon wanted DOGE to actually do it's job they would impeach Trump.

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Aneb lemmy.world Aneb@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-28
#120 · Quote Reply

They'll still be voting for whatever republican is on the ballot Because they're stupid

They are single issue voters, oh sorry you already said stupid.

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Aneb lemmy.world Aneb@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-28
#121 · Quote Reply

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

Guess who the tariffs went to. This is extortion

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im_fine_sandy nord.pub im_fine_sandy@nord.pub
Joined: 2026-08-05
#122 · Quote Reply

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.

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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mofongo discuss.tchncs.de mofongo@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2026-07-07
#123 · Quote Reply

It's not a secret third thing. As soon as we heard that the signing bonus was related to a probationary period, everyone who knows anything about how Trump does business said, "Nobody is getting that bonus." It's extra shitty if they paid it out up front and now the employees have to pay it back, but none of this comes as a surprise.

Iirc, it was a taxable 10K per year for 5 years. If they were let go, they had to pay back the full, untaxed amount.

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finallymadeanaccount lemmy.world finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
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#124 · Quote Reply

Meh. Fuck 'em.

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Hanrahan slrpnk.net hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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#125 · Quote Reply

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...

citing background red flags that

you fuck one goat...

maybe apply with the FBI if that was the case ?

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Rivalarrival lemmy.today Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-06-11
#126 · Quote Reply

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.

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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Akuchimoya startrek.website Akuchimoya@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-08-22
#127 · Quote Reply

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.

I can't wait to find out how they will blame the woke left for this very thing they were warned about.

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fyzzlefry retrolemmy.com fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com
Joined: 2025-03-16
#128 · Quote Reply

Sooo many white Dodge Rams! 🤣

Its Raptors around here

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lightnsfw reddthat.com lightnsfw@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-08-15
#129 · Quote Reply

Maybe next time one of these losers decide to off themselves they'll take their bosses down with them.

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lightnsfw reddthat.com lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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#130 · Quote Reply

It's not a secret third thing. As soon as we heard that the signing bonus was related to a probationary period, everyone who knows anything about how Trump does business said, "Nobody is getting that bonus." It's extra shitty if they paid it out up front and now the employees have to pay it back, but none of this comes as a surprise.

It would be shitty if it happened to nurses or firemen or something. This is fucking hilarious.

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MehBlah lemmy.world MehBlah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-16
#131 · Quote Reply

Meh. Fuck 'em.

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OnyxRex lemmy.dbzer0.com OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-05-04
#132 · (edited) Quote Reply

I take two things from this: The guys they are attracting are so incompetent that they can't make it through their probation period. They either are generally incompetent, or not savage enough. One of these is funny, and one of these is deeply concerning.

the cynic in me thinks it's more just that they have impossible quotas. since many of them are coming in with the idea that the country is bursting with illegals, they think they will reach those numbers easily but then find that no, actually like we've been telling you, they're mostly here legally. So they fail to make their numbers, are marked as poor performers and wash out. The smart ones would have put that signing bonus into a HYSA but I doubt their that clever.

Could be a neat way to wash away student loans. Use the 50K to pay off student debt, Fail on purpose, declare bankruptcy to dismiss the signing bonus debt.

Anyway, I don't think it has to do with their conduct or competency they got played using the old MLM scheme. can't deport illegals when all the illegals and even questionable have already been deported. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes as they like to say.

edit:

Don't get me wrong they're def pieces of shit, but a piece of shit with a major quota can be extra shitty because of stress. Like starving and beating a street dog. It's already prone to biting. you just made it snap faster.

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TrackinDaKraken lemmy.world DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
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#133 · Quote Reply

Trump betrays everyone who trusts him, even his wife and kids.

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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#134 · (edited) Quote Reply

It's not a secret third thing. As soon as we heard that the signing bonus was related to a probationary period, everyone who knows anything about how Trump does business said, "Nobody is getting that bonus." It's extra shitty if they paid it out up front and now the employees have to pay it back, but none of this comes as a surprise.

As soon as we heard that the signing bonus was related to a probationary period, everyone who knows anything about how Trump does business said, “Nobody is getting that bonus.”

This is a single instance posted with little to no detail in a thread that loves to promote any kind of rumor of a reactionary experiencing hardship.

So, consider taking it with a boulder of salt.

No source. No supporting details. It's just Lefty Forward From Grandma as far as I'm concerned.

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DudleyMason lemmy.ml DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-03-19
#135 · Quote Reply

Yep, ya love to see it!

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isleepinahammock lemmy.blahaj.zone isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-09-06
#136 · Quote Reply

Where's the article?

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
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#137 · Quote Reply

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For stocks, we used to have a choice between options or grants. Options were always a joke because you were basically paying market value when they vested, so you could just go buy them on the market for the same price. So I always chose grants, which were 1/4 of what they offered you in options.

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bertlewirth lemmy.world bertlewirth@lemmy.world
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#138 · Quote Reply

awww. poor babies just wanted to shoot brown people, and now they're getting fired?!

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AA5B lemmy.world AA5B@lemmy.world
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#139 · Quote Reply

If only there was some way to predict …

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Napster153 lemmy.world Napster153@lemmy.world
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#140 · Quote Reply

I take two things from this: The guys they are attracting are so incompetent that they can't make it through their probation period. They either are generally incompetent, or not savage enough. One of these is funny, and one of these is deeply concerning.

Basically just like the Nazi Brownshirts when they outlived their usefulness.

Now we just have to wait until they do something stupid and then get officially disbanded.

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TheObviousSolution lemmy.ca TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-06-25
#141 · Quote Reply

Basically just like the Nazi Brownshirts when they outlived their usefulness. Now we just have to wait until they do something stupid and then get officially disbanded.

Well, what I want to know is, were these people fired because they weren't brownshirt enough? Then it's just cleaning ranks for the most loyal and extreme hires to come in. This is what it seems to be, since the people being fired are due to failed "background checks" or "poor performance".

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Napster153 lemmy.world Napster153@lemmy.world
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#142 · Quote Reply

Well, what I want to know is, were these people fired because they weren't brownshirt enough? Then it's just cleaning ranks for the most loyal and extreme hires to come in. This is what it seems to be, since the people being fired are due to failed "background checks" or "poor performance".

It's almost always a case of both, but it's likely that the US Govie has more elite fanatic troops they deem sufficient.

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FuckyourFeels lemmy.world AviAdi@lemmy.world
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#143 · (edited) Quote Reply

Where's the article?

This is just pure hopium.... It's mostly Americans happy that something "was done to the fascists, yay" when in reality it's all bs.

Newsflash Americans; you're actually going to have to stand up to the fascists eventually!

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Professorozone lemmy.world Professorozone@lemmy.world
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#144 · Quote Reply

I thought they didn't get the money until they reached a milestone, like 3 years later.

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StabbingSky lemmy.zip StabbingSky@lemmy.zip
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#145 · Quote Reply

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.

He was a useful idiot for laundering money.

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guyoverthere123 lemmy.dbzer0.com guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#146 · Quote Reply

Where's the article?

It's related to that ice guy who killed himself after he was fired.

This is the only thing I could find that brings to light the repayment.

https://unitingnow.substack.com/p/ice-agents-are-reportedly-being-fired

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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#147 · Quote Reply

I take two things from this: The guys they are attracting are so incompetent that they can't make it through their probation period. They either are generally incompetent, or not savage enough. One of these is funny, and one of these is deeply concerning.
  1. they are mostly unhirable anywhere.
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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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#148 · Quote Reply

the cynic in me thinks it's more just that they have impossible quotas. since many of them are coming in with the idea that the country is bursting with illegals, they think they will reach those numbers easily but then find that no, actually like we've been telling you, they're mostly here legally. So they fail to make their numbers, are marked as poor performers and wash out. The smart ones w...

also even if there are illegals out there , they wont be announcing or showing themselves. they will be mostly in Hiding.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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#149 · Quote Reply

Secret third thing: they never intended to keep them in the first place, and it was a scam the whole time. I doubt 1 or 2 are even plausible.

it was planned 5 year in to get the bonus, they fully expect the next president to immediately fire, ro downsize the agency.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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#150 · Quote Reply

I would LOVE to see a study done on these people. What their criminal history is, how many have received complains against them of stalking and domestic abuse, history of killing/torturing small animals...

some of them were reported early on they were SA people already.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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#151 · Quote Reply

Nothing, the signing bonus was just bait for gullible MAGA people

trump needed his distraction of the month, now that has died down hes cutting them loose.

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