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Insiders are saying the Department of Homeland Security's ICE hiring is in "chaos" and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller is reportedly angry over "lagging" deportation numbers.

A DHS source told The Daily Beast on Monday that President Donald Trump's push to "throw money around" while "panic at the top of government” has unfolded with Miller's disappointment over agents not reaching Trump's goal of 3,000 deportations per day.

“There are calls with Miller, where everyone is being screamed at,” the official told The Beast. “The targets he is setting for them are ridiculous, and it is a case of them just spending any money they can to increase the number of officers and deportations.”

Hiring within the agency has also presented other problems — agents joining before badges, system access or guns are available. Some say the money offer is luring veteran agents back and "insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs."

Former executive-level leaders from HSI and Enforcement and Removal Operations have returned to the agency, "some of them taking home north of $250,000 for office-based shiftwork, per multiple sources who spoke to the Beast," the outlet reports.

Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, has claimed that many of the new agents would be law enforcement returnees.

However, according to several insiders, several former senior employees have returned to the federal pay scale.

"With locality pay in high-cost areas—such as parts of Texas, California, and New York—adding 35 percent or more to a basic salary, agents can earn up to $137,000 in the majority of the country. This rises to $171,268 in more expensive parts of the country, such as San Jose and San Francisco," The Beast reports.

Sources say that overtime pay has also added to the high paychecks, in addition to "ongoing federal pensions worth around $8,000–$9,000 a month, and some rehires can land well in excess of a quarter of a million annually."

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 105 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I am imagining that Hitler "Downfall" clip, only in real life

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 64 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Yup

Americans, now living under neo-Confederate occupation, completely shocked and watching Stephen Miller left to the mercy of the "useless idiots," he screamed at for not hurting enough people and making him rich fast enough.

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[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 30 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

But also, it's a slimy little worm man doing the shouting.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You mean Hitler or Miller?

I wasn't sure who the original gif was but I tried to replace it with one more resembling of Miller

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

He needs to put on a pair of glasses, so his hands can tremble as he takes them off.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 7 points 12 hours ago

Come on, where are AI deepfakes if you need them?

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 83 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

some of them taking home north of $250,000 for office-based shiftwork

Sucking up resources and not actually shooting and teargassing innocent people? These are the least-awful people there!

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 42 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That would honestly be the best thing you could do, is get hired at one of these really expensive positions, then just do nothing. So you're draining resources from those that could do real damage, and directly taking the place from someone who could do worse.

[–] valek879@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I genuinely hope that there's a movement among vets to just this. What a good way to get something back from the gov for the trauma they put them through while protecting their fellow Americans. Just be a wrench in the gears of the immigrant crushing machine.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 16 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] zd9@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

That's exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote the comment above. You want to grind the gears of fascism to a screeching, sputtering halt from within.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago

the US is spending resources to harass those who produce them

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 9 points 12 hours ago

Nonsense! If we can just get all the Wrong Kind of People out, and let only the Right Kind of People in, then we will finally achieve Trump's Economic Miracle the US will be Great Again and big grown men with tears in their eyes from all the winning

[–] gex@lemmy.world 44 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 31 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

As a legal green card holder this just worries me, they need numbers and we are just an easy target, I didn’t do anything wrong but maybe they find an excuse anyway. It’s really scary.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I can see how that's so stressful. I don't want to dox myself but I was also potentially a target of this admin in some other way (there are many groups who are being targeted for all kinds of reasons), and the constant uncertainty is a real killer.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

I just want to make sure that you are connected with your local community.

You aren't alone, and friends are everywhere. So long as they can count on you, you can count on friends.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 30 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Can we deport Miller into the center of the sun

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

It would actually take less energy to send him out of the solar system. Huge delta v to slow down enough to get to the sun.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 12 hours ago

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 17 points 12 hours ago

insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs.

Listen, we only care about efficiency and abuse of funds if it's some poor person getting healthcare or food! Otherwise it's totally legitimate usage of public funds!

Fucking hypocrites as usual....

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 16 points 10 hours ago

Stephen Miller is the biggest piece of shit I have ever seen. I want to personally punch him in the face more than anyone else on the planet.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Wow. That is just. Wow. Ok... I guess the unhinged loony left strikes again.

How childish, and, and,... and just so uncalled for that you would stoop to such a level, as to imply that I... ::nervous cry/laugh::

I mean, you heard my wife say I was a sexual matador. We worked very hard to come up with that line. It took us all night to think of something that so perfectly conveyed brute strength and masculinity as theatre performed for an audience and the illusion of control.

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 hours ago

I dunno if Stephen Miller has a small dick or not, but if he did and was really hung up about it, would he act any different?

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

Keep him screaming. Maybe his head will finally explode.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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Some say the money offer is luring veteran agents back and “insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs.”

My hope is that we win this passive aggressive, very poorly planned and executed war that's going exactly like you would expect it to go. Lots of harm to innocent people who don't deserve it, while the least deserving men hoard their profits and scream orders at their army to work harder and do the things they can't do on their own.

I hope due process survives, and the men who are shrieking these orders will be given a fair trial at home and abroad, despite refusing that right to others. I also hope they spend the rest of their miserable lives behind bars, and working off their debt to society in (unfortunately) more humane conditions than they deem fit for the innocent individuals they're kidnapping and detaining.

However, if we lose the war, at least we know there will be no due process for the men that helped destroy it. I think it's becoming pretty clear, that either way, we can probably look forward to the day their own army finally turns on Stephen Miller, and treats him to a good old fashioned Mussolini.*

The Metamorphoses of Mussolini’s Body

The vicissitudes suffered by his remains only served to confirm his prediction. The incoherencies and contradictions surrounding his death, which occurred on 28 April 1945, have subsequently fuelled an uninterrupted narrative which has become an integral part of his personal myth. The exact circumstances of his death, the ordeal of having his corpse publicly displayed in the piazzale Loreto in Milan, followed by the spiriting away of his remains from the city's Musocco cemetery by young neo-fascists, all helped facilitate his political resurrection ... Mussolini committed suicide using a cyanide capsule lodged in one of his teeth on 28 April 1945(*before he can swallow the cyanide capsule)

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[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 hours ago

With numbers declining, he only has a half chub. He needs to be full mast to do his job.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

How funny would it be if the next administration just sent troops around the U.S. to arrest people with illegal mods on their trucks and tires that stick out from the wheel wells.

I'm sure it would be easy to cherry pick rapists, drunk drivers, assault/battery, murders and what not out of any group. Poof, it's a matter of national security, Executive order

[–] catbum@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Floating_head@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

Motherfucker.

[–] MOARbid1@piefed.social 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

He’s big and bad until someone punches him in the fucking mouth. Wimpy lil bitch.

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[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

He’s always screaming; it’s not particularly newsworthy, nor is it anything that anyone should care about at this point. We should all stop paying attention to him and let him scream his head off into a void.

[–] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Stephen Miller has to know his day is up, Day of the Rope for you traitor bitches

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 points 12 hours ago

True evil ghoul of thing. This man needs to be arrested by the next admin.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Corporate metrics applied to ruining lives.

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

he makes me think of Clayton Bigsby, the black white supremacist

stephen miller is the jewish nazi

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs.

Honestly, I feel like this is the best use of the ICE budget: financially supporting vets who don't deport anyone.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

This is veteran cops, not military vets I think. Much less sympathetic characters.

[–] SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago
[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This guy is like a walking piece of celery

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck that. Celery is good with either peanut butter or cream cheese on it, or dipped in dressing. Stephen Miller would only be good dipped in lava.

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[–] SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You just unlocked a memory and made me realize who he's reminded me of this whole time!

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