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
I shudder at the thought of what “poor performance” means at ICE. Not enough arrests? Not enough tasered people?
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.
In this admin poor performance could also mean not being harsh enough.
There never was ask for competency, trump fires like for not being loyal 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?
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.
Not surprising given what we’ve seen reported: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
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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.
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
If only there was some way to predict …
Iirc many of the signing bonuses required a contract of 5 years.
Which is conveniently 1 year longer than the president’s term…
Lol no way, is this true? It’s the world actually not as bad as it always seems, because that’s fucking hilarious.
Stupids getting suckered and left holding the bag, not my problem.
But also making a violent, lawless, militarized force loyal to one person, not the office.
Trump ain’t going to pay those debts for them.
This is exactly to motivate those thugs so they do everything that trump stays in power after 2029.
Not only they might need to pay 50,000 that they probably already spent, but might be also told that they will go to jail for doing what they were told to keep that 50k.
I wouldn’t be surprised that those fired ICE were fired, because they had issues with what they were told to do.
This move is right out of the Trump business playbook. He’s been not paying workers and committing fraud against contractors his entire adult life. Avoiding the payout was the plan from day 1 when the bonus was offered–I’m betting Trump himself recommended this outcome. Fuck ICE. I hope every agent experiences bankruptcy and hardship. They ruined their lives to serve a child-rapist.
Maybe next time one of these losers decide to off themselves they’ll take their bosses down with them.
Came here looking for this, lmao
awww. poor babies just wanted to shoot brown people, and now they’re getting fired?!
Trump betrays everyone who trusts him, even his wife and kids.
I think I speak for all of us when I say,
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA
HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA
I thought they didn’t get the money until they reached a milestone, like 3 years later.
Aren’t signing bonuses explicitly an early in the job sort of thing?
Yea that’s normally how it works, but the news was reporting the fine print of some who signed on not getting their bonuses until they’ve met a 3 year minimum or having to pay it back. Like with anything Trump, the money was never real.
Meh. Fuck 'em.
Where’s the article?
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!
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
Yep, ya love to see it!
Not only do these idiots get what they deserve, but it’s also hilarious that Trump is scamming and turning his most hardcore supporters against him
They’ll still be voting for whatever republican is on the ballot
Because they’re stupid
They are single issue voters, oh sorry you already said stupid.
Tf you gotta do to get fired from ICE? Show compassion?
There’s a sweet spot of UNHINGED RACIST PSYCHO WHO WILL FOLLOW ORDERS they’re looking for. These were either UNHINGED RACIST PSYCHOPATHS WHO BLINDLY FOLLOW ORDERS or UNHINGED RACIST PSYCHOS WHO MAY QUESTION ORDERS.
“Oh no, would you look at that, you wore white socks after Labor Day. And just two days before you qualified for benefits, darn it”
The department has been firing people that they found out they didn’t pass their background checks now after they didn’t do them in the first place. My guess is probably things like having previous arrests/convictions, DV, different aliases.
But probably not things like being convicted for beastiality, those kids are alright according to Kash.
