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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
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.
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.
People who failed a psychological profile to become a cop
Ex military that had war crimes and gross misconduct swept under the rug so higher-ups could save face?
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.
I wonder if any of those are non-fascists who joined with the intent of sabotage.
you fuck one goat...
maybe apply with the FBI if that was the case ?
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
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
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.
I'm surprised they are not getting the latino officers to drive a bus of deportees into Mexico and then not letting them back.
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.