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Critics have warned that lowered hiring standards and slashed training times will lead to an explosion of abuses by immigration officers

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[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

America too fat to Nazi properly lol.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tried to goosestep but all they managed was a waddle

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Foie gras-stepping.

[–] klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Let’s all join ice and not work

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's certainly tempting.

If I wasn't already employed, in sure there's a way to get hired as an ICE agent for a full blown do-nothing position.

Hell, game the system right and you can be hired three or four times. I doubt their HR is worth a shit.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good idea in theory, but you'd be facing a shitload of pressure from your fascist thug "colleagues" to commit all sorts of heinous acts and it's not unlikely that they'd go to great and violent lengths to force you to comply just like they do with their other victims.

[–] klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Might be worth it to get their names

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just be careful not to be seen writing them down. Literacy skills are a dead giveaways

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

Join ICE, spray tan your coworkers and work harder.

[–] Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Where does one go to apply for an "ICE" job?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just follow the instructions on the Spotify ads

I dont use Spotify...

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably wherever people who pretend to be cops and military hang out, civil court hearings? Militia weekend groups?

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Bass Pro Shops? KFC?

[–] nixus@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

...requiring 15 push-ups, 32 sit-ups, and running one-and-a-half miles in 14 minutes...

That's a stupidly easy test. I'm a programmer, gamer, and I have a bad back, and I can easily do that.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dude 1.5 miles in 14 minutes is not as easy as it sounds, especially if you aren't active

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

A mile and a half and 14 minutes is a tiny bit faster than a brisk walk. If someone has trouble handling that pace for 14 minutes then they really should not be anywhere near a law enforcement job that requires them to be on their feet.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just to confirm...

Is it all that's listed in 14 minutes. So, the push-ups, sit-ups and the running?

Not just running almost a kilometre in 14 minutes?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its 1.5 miles not almost 1km.

So 2.4km.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Ah fuck, I got the conversion the wrong way round

[–] nixus@anarchist.nexus 0 points 1 week ago

Oh, that's a good question. I read it as the latter, but if it's the former, it would be a bit tougher. It's still not super hard, but it is tougher than I initially imagined.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Physical fitness tests?

Mental fitness tests?

Intelligence fitness tests?

Psychological fitness tests?

Moral fitness tests?

Or all of the above?

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Trump will start poaching municipal and state police to emigrate to become ICE officers via over-paid salary and benefits.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The one thing, though, is that police unions are damn strong and you’ll be drawing a nice pension while you beat your geriatric spouse through retirement. The ICE ramp-up was slapped together without any thought past a dumb cash grab. I doubt benefits, if there are any, will be honored.

[–] 100@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

the benefit is that you will get investigated for crimes after this admin is over

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't know ... ICE has a budget bigger than the Russian military. ICE's budget is bigger than all other US local, state, and federal law enforcement combined. So I expect Trump to spend that on turning cops to ICE.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago

They already are. And there's a cop shortage. And if they go back to being cops and then do police brutality the fact that they were in ICE before will immediately make it that much worse for them

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scary part is the physical fit ones are that much more psycho. Maybe add mental fitness criteria.

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mentally fit people wouldn't want to work for them.