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Congress authorized more ICE agents... up to 10,000 agents!!!! My question is... where are they going to get 10,000 new agents? Proud Boys?

Trump Is Weaponizing America’s Depraved and Bipartisan Immigration Policies

Splinter

By Roqayah Chamseddine

August 5, 2025

By any measure, the United States has built one of the most expansive and secretive migrant detention systems in the world; a shadow network that extends from rural county jails to offshore military bases, run largely for profit and hidden away from any meaningful public oversight. Over decades, and across party lines, successive administrations have expanded this system, embedding it so deeply into immigration enforcement that it now operates with alarming impunity. By way of privatization, secrecy, and widespread geographical distribution, it functions as a “carceral archipelago,” one where detainees are routinely denied due process and basic human rights. What the public rarely sees is the deliberate architecture of invisibility that has allowed this system to thrive, all while politicians evade accountability for what has become the normalized confinement and abuse of human beings from around the world.

I want to point out a couple of things from that paragraph: first "....run largely for profit and hidden away from any meaningful public oversight." I sure wonder who owns the companies and how much they donated to Trump's campaign? Second do you know some of the other words to describe the immigration detention center? Gulags. Concentration camps. Internment camps.

But lets get back to the new agents.

How Trump’s ICE may draw the wrong recruits

In years past, agents were largely motivated by allegiance to the Constitution. Not anymore

Salon

By Geoffrey Grammer

July 18, 2025

Now that the newly-signed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, President Donald Trump’s budget-busting bill, has become law, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will rapidly grow its agent ranks. Its masked militia has traumatized peaceful communities, with particular terror aimed at the Latino population, by presenting no badges or identification, and by physically accosting and kidnapping both undocumented and legal U.S. residents without due process.

ICE’s evolving public-facing mission, which is increasingly spreading fear in American society, coupled with the expected increase in agents needed to carry out the Trump administration’s agenda, raises the question: What kind of person will seek to join ICE?

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The mindset and motivation of these kinds of ICE agents have created serious risks to human rights and constitutional values. An agency increasing its ranks with people who demonstrate authoritarian and punitive traits poses a clear threat to civil liberties and the rule of law. That risk grows when loyalty shifts from the Constitution to a charismatic, authoritarian leader like Trump. Historically, this mirrors how oppressive security forces, such as Hitler’s Gestapo, rose to power, starting with seemingly lawful agencies that gradually became corrupted by sadistic personalities and political loyalty.

In another Salon article they write that,

But a February investigative report uncovered that among the agency's ranks is a Dallas-area prosecutor alleged to operate a racist social media account. Months later, a lack of information about the prosecutor's standing has pushed federal lawmakers to press the agency for a definitive response.  

"We're going to get answers from ICE on this situation," U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, told Salon. "It's not 'if' we're going to get answers. We're going to get answers from ICE on this, and we expect for the answers to be timely, and we're going to continue to push if they don't."

In February, a Texas Observer investigation found that an ICE prosecutor working in the state's immigration courts has likely been operating X account GlomarResponder, which has made a number of openly racist, xenophobic and pro-fascist posts on the platform since the account went live in 2012.

I find this very disturbing!

ICE is recruiting agents with incentives, massive ad campaigns. Sheriffs aren't happy.

ICE just made it more attractive to become an immigration agent, with a $50k signing bonus. But are they hurting local law enforcement in the process?

By Trevor Hughes

USA TODAY

August 4, 2025

Dangling bonuses of up to $50,000, federal officials are launching a massive recruitment campaign to hire more than 14,000 immigration agents, attorneys and other workers to help execute President Donald Trump's border crackdown. The president is newly flush with billions in funding and wants to deport 1 million people a year with the help of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

"America needs you," reads one of the ICE recruiting ads, featuring a finger-pointing Uncle Sam, evoking World War I recruiting posters. "America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need YOU to get them out."

Now here comes the really scary part...

The federal spending plan finances the hiring of 10,000 new ICE agents, making ICE the single-largest law enforcement agency in the country, larger than the FBI, DEA, ATF and other agencies combined. For comparison, the FBI has only about 13,700 special agents, according to the Justice Department.

Even before the new hires take their posts, the dramatic expansion of public ICE operations has upset communities from coast to coast and raised questions about the tactics agents have used as they've chased suspects across Home Depot parking lots, farm fields and into medical buildings.

Who are they hiring? I wonder if there are any Jan6 people?