ICE Struggles to Hire Muscle While Deporting Due Process
ICE is reportedly struggling to hire 10,000 new agents, despite offering $50,000 signing bonuses on a $49,739 starting salary. Applicants, we hear, are 'athletically allergic' and bafflingly unfamiliar with immigration law and the Fourth Amendment. One might wonder if a deep understanding of constitutional rights is prioritized when the agency has a documented history of illegally detaining U.S.
citizens and employing 'gratuitous force,' as Axios delicately notes. Perhaps the issue isn't attracting 'qualified' applicants, but attracting agents willing to ignore those pesky constitutional details. The "high fail rate" on physicals and legal tests seems less about individual recruits and more about the agency's actual operational standards vs. its public facade. The irony of an agency
accused of Fourth Amendment violations demanding recruits grasp it, even while offering literal piles of cash, is peak bureaucracy.