brygphilomena comments on ‘ICE Kidnapping’ Signs Are Popping Up Around D.C.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's so disingenuous. Their employment is way up and their interactions with people, both those they are targeting and the general public are way up.

If I were literally any company, if I increased my workforce by over 1000% I'd expect anything happening to them to increase by at least 1000%.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Their employment is way up

The story is 10,000 new ICE agents. Sounds like a lot, but even if they actually are making $100K a year (which means an employer cost of roughly $200K each), that's $2 billion -- or a staggering 1% of the $200 billion allocated to ICE in the recent spending bill (with the name so stupid I refuse to ever type it). Even as bad as ICE is, it's still mostly a boondoggle for stuffing the wallets of trump supporters.

And I'll bet most of these ICE agents aren't even making $100K a year. It's just too obviously a shoestring operation for that to be the case. I suspect a lot of these "ICE agents" are actually undocumented immigrants themselves, given a stark choice between abducting other random Spanish-speaking people or deportation. And paid very little, just like undocumented immigrants everywhere.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

From what I heard on social media, ICE is being paid a $1,500 per head they collect. I don't have any confirmation about that, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were true. What is true, is that many bounty hunters are now with ICE. It is a job that requires a lack of moral fiber, with craptacular results.

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