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Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting

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Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting (NBC)​

What could possibly go wrong?
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"WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed new recruits into its training program before they have completed the agency’s vetting process, an unusual sequence of events as it rushes to hire federal immigration officers to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, a current and two former Homeland Security Department officials told NBC News.

ICE officials only later discovered that some of the recruits failed drug testing, have disqualifying criminal backgrounds or don’t meet the physical or academic requirements to serve, the sources said.


Staff members at ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently discovered one recruit had previously been charged with strong-arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident, the current DHS official said. They’ve also found as recently as this month that some recruits going through the six-week training course hadn’t submitted fingerprints for background checks, as ICE’s hiring process requires, the current and former DHS officials said.

Per ICE policy, applicants are required to pass drug tests and undergo security vetting through ICE’s human resources office before they show up for the training course. The former officials said the process was more strictly adhered to before a hiring surge that began this summer. The process was meant to weed out disqualified candidates before they would be sent to training.

Since the surge began, ICE has dismissed more than 200 new recruits while they were in training for falling short of its hiring requirements, according to recently collected internal ICE data reviewed by NBC News."
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DHS's response is even more ridiculous:

“There is absolutely concern that some people are slipping through the cracks,” the current DHS official said. The official said many of the issues that have been flagged during training surface only because the recruits admitted they didn’t submit to fingerprinting or drug testing before they arrived.

“What about the ones who don’t admit it?” the official said.

The Department of Homeland Security told NBC News in a statement that most of its new recruits are former law enforcement officers and former ICE officers who go through a different process.

“The figures you reference are not accurate and reflect a subset of candidates in initial basic academy classes,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said. “The vast majority of new officers brought on during the hiring surge are experienced law enforcement officers who have already successfully completed a law enforcement academy. This population is expected to account for greater than 85% of new hires. Prior-service hires follow streamlined validation but remain subject to medical, fitness, and background requirements.”
 
OMG, there's more!

"As part of the effort, ICE shortened the training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia from 13 weeks to eight. The training was later shortened to six weeks, the DHS official said.

Recruits also are supposed to attest that they can pass ICE’s physical fitness test, which includes situps, pullups and running 1½ miles in under 14 minutes, 25 seconds.

Darius Reeves, who recently left his position as ICE field office director in Baltimore, said he believes the agency’s Aug. 6 decision to waive age limits so older people can join has led to more recruits’ failing the physical test.

“These new recruits are dropping like flies,” Reeves said in an interview after having spoken with colleagues seeking to bring new hires into the agency. “And rightly so; it makes sense. We’re going to drop the age requirements, of course this was going to happen.”

Nearly half of new recruits who’ve arrived for training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center over the past three months were later sent home because they couldn’t pass the written exam, according to the data. The academic requirement includes an exam in which officers are allowed to consult their textbooks and notes at the end of a legal course on the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Fourth Amendment, which outlines when officers can and can’t conduct searches and seizures."

It's not like the 4th Amendment applies to ICE. An ICE training video, see if you can spot the problem.



Solution: The agent wasn't wearing a mask.
 
This should be on TV. "So You Think You Can Be Ice?"
Then film them all take 25mins to walk/hobble 1.5 miles.
 
NWRatCon said:
"As part of the effort, ICE shortened the training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia from 13 weeks to eight. The training was later shortened to six weeks, the DHS official said.
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IIRC, Glynco, Georgia is where recruits to the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) are trained. It's very close to the Florida border. Glynco is an amalgam of Glyn County.

DSS personnel protect embassies, consulates, and US diplomats. Other federal training facilities are located at Artesia, NM, Charleston, SC, Cheltenham, MD, and Washington, D.C.
 
NWRatCon said:

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting (NBC)​

What could possibly go wrong?
_____
"WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed new recruits into its training program before they have completed the agency’s vetting process, an unusual sequence of events as it rushes to hire federal immigration officers to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, a current and two former Homeland Security Department officials told NBC News.

ICE officials only later discovered that some of the recruits failed drug testing, have disqualifying criminal backgrounds or don’t meet the physical or academic requirements to serve, the sources said.


Staff members at ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently discovered one recruit had previously been charged with strong-arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident, the current DHS official said. They’ve also found as recently as this month that some recruits going through the six-week training course hadn’t submitted fingerprints for background checks, as ICE’s hiring process requires, the current and former DHS officials said.

Per ICE policy, applicants are required to pass drug tests and undergo security vetting through ICE’s human resources office before they show up for the training course. The former officials said the process was more strictly adhered to before a hiring surge that began this summer. The process was meant to weed out disqualified candidates before they would be sent to training.

Since the surge began, ICE has dismissed more than 200 new recruits while they were in training for falling short of its hiring requirements, according to recently collected internal ICE data reviewed by NBC News."
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DHS's response is even more ridiculous:

“There is absolutely concern that some people are slipping through the cracks,” the current DHS official said. The official said many of the issues that have been flagged during training surface only because the recruits admitted they didn’t submit to fingerprinting or drug testing before they arrived.

“What about the ones who don’t admit it?” the official said.

The Department of Homeland Security told NBC News in a statement that most of its new recruits are former law enforcement officers and former ICE officers who go through a different process.

“The figures you reference are not accurate and reflect a subset of candidates in initial basic academy classes,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said. “The vast majority of new officers brought on during the hiring surge are experienced law enforcement officers who have already successfully completed a law enforcement academy. This population is expected to account for greater than 85% of new hires. Prior-service hires follow streamlined validation but remain subject to medical, fitness, and background requirements.”
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New recruits? So I guess the budget for training and paying ICE is still working, despite the shutdown.
 
Rogue Valley said:
IIRC, Glynco, Georgia is where recruits to the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) are trained. It's very close to the Florida border. Glynco is an amalgam of Glyn County.

DSS personnel protect embassies, consulates, and US diplomats. Other federal training facilities are located at Artesia, NM, Charleston, SC, Cheltenham, MD, and Washington, D.C.
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The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia:

www.pbs.org

Inside the facility where ICE is training recruits to take on Trump's deportation goals

The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia, is the epicenter of training for almost all federal law enforcement officers, including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who are at the center of President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts.
www.pbs.org www.pbs.org

"Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, was at the training demonstration Thursday. He said the agency currently has about 6,500 deportation officers and is aiming to hire 10,000 more by the end of the year.

With that hiring surge has come concerns that vetting or training of new recruits will be shortchanged. The Border Patrol went through a similar hiring surge in the early 2000s when hiring and training standards were changed; arrests for employee misconduct rose.

Lyons pushed back on concerns that ICE might cut corners when it comes to training. although he said they have made changes designed to streamline the process.

“I wasn’t going to water down training,” said Lyons.

And yet, he did.
 
NWRatCon said:
"essential workers".
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I guess that makes millions feel 'inessential'.

"Roughly 730,000 federal employees are working without pay, while another roughly 670,000 have been furloughed, according to the latest estimate from the Bipartisan Policy Center. However, agencies have made changes as the shutdown drags on. For instance, the Internal Revenue Service originally said it would use the Inflation Reduction Act to keep paying all of its roughly 74,300 employees but a week later decided to furlough nearly half its workforce."

 
When ICE leadership lies, constantly, with a straight (well, smirky) face, it is hard to take this kind of crap seriously:

"ICE staff pushed back on accusations that they are indiscriminately pulling people over or setting up checkpoints in Washington, D.C., or elsewhere as part of immigration enforcement.

They said they have to have probable cause to go after someone, and they do targeted operations. They said they can’t — and don’t — do traffic stops but can work with local authorities who are.

“Once local law enforcement makes a stop, and then they contact ICE saying we have somebody that we possibly think might be an alien,“ said Greg Hornsby, an associate legal adviser at ICE. ”And that’s where we step in.”
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Numerous videos put the obvious lie to that claim.
 

As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime (Fortune)​

Customs and Border Protection border patrol agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officers, Secret Service special agents, and Transportation Security Administration air marshals will continue to be paid during the ongoing shutdown, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to Fortune. Their pay is covered under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which gave ICE an extra $75 billion in funding.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem outlined on social media last week these personnel will receive “super checks” by Wednesday, covering their next pay period, as well as lost wages from the first few days of the shutdown, and applicable overtime pay.
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Among the hundreds of thousands of government employees not being paid are air traffic controllers, who have been deemed necessary employees. Many are working 60 hours, six days a week, and some are taking on second “gig jobs,” such as serving at restaurants or driving for Uber or DoorDash, according to Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

“To think that somehow we can live with, ‘You’ll get paid eventually,’ that doesn’t pay the creditors, that doesn’t pay the mortgage, that doesn’t pay gas, that doesn’t pay the food bill,” Daniels told Fortune earlier this week. “No one takes IOUs, and the air traffic controllers are having to feel that pressure as well.”

The decisions of who gets paid and who doesn’t during government shutdowns depends on department personnel sorting employees into respective groups of essential and nonessential, as well as appropriations for salaries that may or may not be impacted by the lapsed congressional budget.

But this employee selection process is completely arbitrary and subjective, highlighting a failure of government shutdowns, which are ultimately more expensive than keeping the government operating, according to Linda Bilmes, a public finance expert and senior lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco estimated for each week the government is shut down, it would translate to a $7 billion economic hit and a 0.1% reduction in U.S. GDP growth, a result, in part, of delayed procurement of goods and a drag on demand."
 
NWRatCon said:
indeed. There's a reason all those "Proud" Boys are so fat and unemployed - and available for ICE recruitment.
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I don't doubt for even a nanosecond that The Kremlin has a burning fascination with our Proud Boys, their financial situations, their spending habits, their porn habits, anything and everything that could be compromising.
 
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