Washington (AP) – The agency responsible for implementing President Donald Trump Large expulsion He has launched a recruitment campaign to seduce “brave and heroic Americans,” and has been preparing the government for a major expansion of recent immigration enforcement, serving as new deportees, lawyers and investigators. Injecting money from the council. Cake Icing: A promise of up to $50,000 with a signature bonus.
US Immigration Customs Enforcement Campaignrecalls accepting a WWII poster, unfolding late Tuesday, with the words “We need America.” there is Photos of Trump and the Homeland Security Officer The entire image shows the phrase “protecting your hometown.”
“Your country is calling on you to serve on ice,” Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem said in a news release. “This is a critical moment in our country’s history. Your skills, your experiences, and your courage have never been more essential. Together, we must protect our hometown.”
In addition to appealing to the patriotic enthusiasm of future applicants, Homeland Security is making the pitch for its pocketbooks. The agency has promised to be a signature bonus of up to $50,000. This is a lot of overtime potential for deportation personnel and other benefits such as loan repayments and forgiveness options.
Lots of money is coming to the ice
All of this is possible through a large injection of money into the ice.
The tax credit and spending reduction package that Trump signed into law this month includes roughly $170 billion for five years of border security and immigration enforcement.
ICE is set to win $76.5 billion, almost ten times the current annual budget. Approximately $45 billion will be directed at improving detention capacity. With nearly $30 billion to hire around 100,000 staff, agents can achieve their goal of deporting one million people annually.
New recruits include deportation officers who are responsible for tracking, arresting and eliminating those who the administration has determined are no longer the right to remain in the United States.
Under Republican presidents, these officers are well-known roles, arresting in immigration courts, on the streets and in businesses. They are often criticized by immigration activists and democratic lawmakers. To wear a mask while carrying it I will put their duty.
On the recruitment webpage, a link to learn more about applying for deportation officers shows photos of armored vehicles rolling down the street with officers hanging from the side of the vehicle.
The government is also looking for criminal investigators and lawyers to indict immigration cases.
The agency said it will promote it on university campuses, job information sessions and law enforcement networks starting this week. However, recruiting drive raised concerns about what would happen if agents grew too quickly.
Staffing has been a long-standing challenge
During the Biden administration, former agency chief Jason Hauser said ice staffing has been a long-term issue.
At the beginning of the Trump administration, around 6,000 officers within ICE were tasked with surveillance of non-citizens in the country, and later found and deleted those who were not eligible to stay.
These staffing numbers remained primarily static for many years, even with the caseload being bulged. During the Biden administration, when the number of people arriving at the US-Mexico border spiked, ice workers were often drawn from their usual duties to go to the border.
“ICE needs more employees to handle the amount of what we’re processing,” Houser says.
But he’s worried whether the rush to increase staffing means lower standards for recruits and training.
Rapid expansion of border patrols In the early 2000s it serves as a warning story. Training and employment standards have been changed to meet employment goals. Arrests for employee misconduct have risen.
“If they start abandoning the requirements there like Border Patrol, you’re going to make an exponential increase in executives showing the door in three years because there’s some kind of problem,” he said. At the same time, Houser noted that the Department of Homeland Security has it. Several major institutions have been demolished It provided some surveillance over ice and other DHS arms.
Houser estimated it would take three to four years to actually hire and train that number of new ICE staff. In the meantime, he worries that ICE will depend on achieving the administration’s goal of arresting 3,000 people a day on civil contractors, the National Guard Forces and other federal law enforcement officials.
The $50,000 bonus is high end
Chuck Wexler is the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, which investigates police issues. He said police departments across the country are struggling to maintain staffing since the pandemic and maintain fallout due to George Floyd’s death, often offering employment bonuses as a result. He has seen bonus offers in the West Coast division ranging from $10,000 to $60,000 or $70,000.
However, he said the $50,000 top line bonus offered by DHS is undoubtedly high-end, and homeland security employment could impact police departments across the country if officers try to be hired by ICE.
“The environment for hiring law enforcement has never been as competitive as ever,” he said. “This could probably affect state and local agencies. Someone could leave the police station and get a DHS and a $50,000 signature bonus.”
