I think I speak for all of us when I say,
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA
HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA
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.
- they are mostly unhirable anywhere.
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”.
It’s almost always a case of both, but it’s likely that the US Govie has more elite fanatic troops they deem sufficient.
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.
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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.
also even if there are illegals out there , they wont be announcing or showing themselves. they will be mostly in Hiding.
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.
It would be shitty if it happened to nurses or firemen or something. This is fucking hilarious.
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.
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.
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.
Everything they do is a scam, so this tracks
Put some ice on it.
Please be real
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…
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
Not who you replied to, but in my case I have noai.DuckDuckGo set up as my default search engine in Firefox. Any search I do automatically includes the noai prefix in the url. 👍
Set Noai. As your default search and it will use that when you type in the address bar
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
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
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.
Not surprising given what we’ve seen reported: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
spoiler/quote
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 shudder at the thought of what “poor performance” means at ICE. Not enough arrests? Not enough tasered people?
Not enough tortures, I guess
“I’m way behind on my beating quotas” -Barney Calhoun
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.
I wonder if any of those are non-fascists who joined with the intent of sabotage.
In this admin poor performance could also mean not being harsh 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.
citing background red flags that
you fuck one goat…
maybe apply with the FBI if that was the case ?
I’m surprised they are not getting the latino officers to drive a bus of deportees into Mexico and then not letting them back.
They should be put on a registry and limit their freedoms.
LOLOLOL! F-them and they should have known better. MAGA will screw you.
Meh. Fuck 'em.
Any recently fired before their probationary period ended ice agents want to set fire to the Constitution?
Speak to your local antifa cell for more information.
Trump betrays everyone who trusts him, even his wife and kids.
If only there was some way to predict …
Yep, ya love to see it!
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
took his own life in the parking lot of ICE’s Philadelphia field office just days after receiving his termination notice.
He took “termination notice” seriously
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!
