ICE is offering incentives including signing bonuses of up to $50,000, student loan forgiveness and extensive overtime opportunities.

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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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      3 days 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
        22·
        3 days 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.

      • LePoisson@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 days 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”

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        7·
        3 days 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.