What’s in the Heart of an 18-Year-Old ICE Recruit?
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What’s in the Heart of an 18-Year-Old ICE Recruit?
WE LIVE IN AN ERA IN WHICH some of the worst leadership has come from some of our oldest politicians. So I’m not going to sit here and say all teens or twentysomethings are evil dummies. That would be inaccurate. But what idea about America does a teenager possess that makes him or her want to aggressively round up immigrants? And, to be clear, that’s precisely how ICE is advertising the gig: an opportunity to round up criminal immigrants.
Some under-21-year-old applicants may be driven by a political ideology that holds the country would be better off with mass deportations. Some may be in a place of desperation, looking for easy work with few hurdles and good pay. Some may be nativists. Others may have even more dangerous motivations. This is what screening is for: to sort out this kind of stuff. Reduce the screening effect of age limits and you increase the likelihood of hiring bad people. It isn’t hard to imagine how the worst of these motivations could play out in horrible ways.
Chris Newman, the general counsel for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and a lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, said that, with the huge ramping up of recruiting and the dropping of age limits, he fears ICE may end up composed of agents who were rejected from every other law enforcement agency. Consciously or not, he warned, the administration was giving people from the fringes of society power over those with less power.
“It’s a commonly known fact that recruiting efforts in the past have attracted the bottom of the barrel in terms of talent,” he said. But now, he added, “it’s no laughing matter to think of the type of disturbed individuals that they are attracting.”
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The Nazis recruited from the unemployed and disaffected
they're heartless, and what's in their maga brainwashed minds is xenophobia ...
drop out of high school and immediately become a US law enforcement officer arresting people. quite a deal.
yeah especially at the salary they're offering
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