{"id":173223,"date":"2025-08-25T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173223"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:58:10","slug":"ice-paying-recruiting-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=173223","title":{"rendered":"ICE paying recruiting bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ICE is offering signing bonuses… pretty sweet ones.<\/p>\n

The agency is hoping to recruit deportation officers and other agency roles with signing bonuses of up to $50,000, and student loan debt forgiveness of up to $60,000. Other benefits include higher-than-standard overtime pay and promises of enhanced retirement benefits.<\/p>\n

The recruitment drive aims to double the agency’s existing headcount. Currently, ICE has 20,000 employees between officers and support roles. The President has vowed to deport one million people per year, though in July, only 27,483 individuals were deported, a 13% drop from the month before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gonna have to make up some of them numbers, guys – even almost doubling to\u00a0 50,000 a month is still only 600,000 annually.<\/p>\n

The large cash incentives offered by ICE point to the real issue: Americans are not in support of ICE\u2019s activities. CNN reported in July that 55% of Americans say the president has \u201cgone too far\u201d in deporting illegal immigrants. A further 59% oppose arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants who have no criminal records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Love how they clarified that for me in that first sentence. Talk about trying to make your facts fit your conclusion – and using a CNN poll to do it.<\/p>\n

The “One Big Beautiful” tax and spending bill allocated more than $76 billion to ICE, funding this new spending spree for the agency. The bill gives ICE nearly 10 times its previous budget, and makes it the best funded federal law enforcement agency in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They have to specify law enforcement, or it brings up other departments like DoD which has ten times the budget.<\/p>\n

However, even those who are insiders believe the surge in recruitment is a bad idea. Speaking to the Associated Press, former ICE chief of staff Jason Houser said he believes the recruitment drive will see the agency hiring bad actors. He compares the move to the recruitment drive in Customs and Border Protection in the 2000s.\u00a0\u00a0MoneyWise<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Should anyone point out that Houser was Chief of Staff for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the folks IN CHARGE of that hiring? When did he do that – during 2021-2023 under the Biden administration. So I think he’s saying “I sucked at what I was supposed to do”?<\/p>\n

Lots of outrage and spin in the original article – I really don’t recommend reading it.<\/p>\n

I am struck, however, by how the hiring incentives for ICE compare to enlistment bonuses for the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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