Now, in an effort to push agents to achieve his mass deportation agenda, Trump has granted the agency a massive, record-breaking cash infusion, while in the same stroke, he eliminated the oversight bodies that are supposed to regulate ICE’s actions. One former top ICE official says that there’s a worryingly real possibility that the incoming agents will be seeded from “Proud Boys and other insurrectionists.” Whether or not that nightmare scenario is realized, the results of Trump’s agent expansion and oversight contraction will likely spell disaster for civil liberties across the country.
For years, ICE has been accused of using problematic tactics when enforcing immigration law, a trend that has skyrocketed since Trump took office again this year. By March, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had announced that the three oversight divisions within DHS were effectively shutting down: the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, and the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman. These were established by Congress as a way to implement oversight of DHS and focused on protecting detainees’ civil rights and ensuring they were receiving immigration-related benefits. Noem fired a majority of their staff by claiming their work was creating “roadblocks” to immigration enforcement.
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights group sued, forcing the oversight bodies to remain open, though key positions are either empty or being held by Trump-aligned figures—Troup Hemenway, a former leader on Project 2025, was appointed acting officer for the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
However, the Trump administration’s approach to immigration, manipulating existing laws and often straight-up violating them, is not exactly new. Disturbing reports of abuse at immigration detention centers surfaced under the Biden administration, problematic family detention tactics were used by the Obama administration, and Trump’s first administration pursued a notorious zero-tolerance policy that resulted in thousands of parents being deported while their children remained in the U.S. “Our system makes no sense whatsoever and serves nobody’s interests,” Shuchart said. “The only thing that’s ever going to work is legislation.”
Shuchart believes the Trump administration’s solution, which has thus far included firing staff, eliminating guardrails, and throwing billions more dollars at an overwhelmed agency so it can meet the president’s mass deportation goal as quickly as possible, is pure fantasy. The situation facing DHS and all the agencies it oversees is begging for a policy intervention that outlines real leadership and a plan, something money cannot buy.
. One former top ICE official says that there’s a worryingly real possibility that the incoming agents will be seeded from “Proud Boys and other insurrectionists.
I mean … Obviously…
The few people I know at CBP dipped the fuck out already, mostly completely out of the fed workforce.
And there’s only going to be one type of person applying to work in 2025 for ICE
Whether or not they belong to one of those groups, the people applying to do this work will agree with them.
Edit:
Now DHS is emailing DoD civvies begging for people to take a 120 day reassignment to the border, with the promise it will just be admin work.
They can’t even find enough Nazis to fill all these spots, and every other agency is already bare bones so ICE could get their budget…
Even if an employee was dumb enough to take this deal, there’s no chain of command giving up a person for a whole quarter.
And there’s only going to be one type of person applying to work in 2025 for ICE
Now DHS is emailing DoD civvies begging for people to take a 120 day reassignment to the border, with the promise it will just be admin work.
The moment it isn’t, the employee should remember their union membership and act accordingly.
DoD civvies begging for people to take a 120 day reassignment to the border, with the promise it will just be admin work.
I assume because anyone who applies to ICE is doing so to beat people up instead of work on forms.
If it was just working on forms they wouldn’t need to physically relocate to the actual border…
Then going to be ordered to do things that would keep most people up at night for years after.
Reminded me of the guy who volunteered for the Russian army in a technical role and moved his whole family there…
Then told her was getting not technical training and being sent to the frontline.
You kind of feel bad, but only an idiot would get into that situation in the first place.
“Would the authoritarian just tell me what to do with no consideration of my preferences?”
I honestly thought that they were all proud boys already. They probably wear masks bc there is a significant overlap between the jan 6 coup people and the people staffing ICE
Nobody with more than two brain cells to click together expects ICE ghouls to be anything but racist fascists. The only difference here is that he said it in front of a microphone.
There’s no money for Americans to have healthcare, child care, publicly funded science or education, but let’s dump an insane amount money into an already highly funded government agency.
Also, you know how they’ve been accused of frequent rights violations? While we’re increasing their activity, we should really dismantle the civil rights offices that can provide any oversight. Problem solved.
So aren’t current ICE thugs already from that lot?
I’d be surprised if that hasn’t already happened.
Same here. I figured they’d already be well infiltrated by Nazis already.
Some of those that work forces
Deserve to get trampled by horses
Are the same that burn crosses
Who do they think they’ve already been hiring? Ice or border patrol or whatever you want to call them have always hired from the worst of our nation. Truly the dregs of our society work on the border. There’s a reason why at the school of the Americas when they were teaching fascist kill squads to rape nuns systematically that border patrol agents were some of the instructors.
Lol, they did that already. The Nazis are here already. It’s cognitive dissonance to believe otherwise.
I think people are kind of missing the point here. As bad as things have been, they’re about to get way worse. Like how people thought they would be prepared for Trump’s second second term bc they already lived through his first term.
The budget they have given ICE bc of the BBB is insane. They’ve basically thrown money at a problem bc they don’t know how to solve an issue of poor leadership. So not only will they be expanding, they
might even bedefinitely are getting access to all kinds of military toys and surveillance tools.
former racist is worried that his former employer might hire even bigger racists
Uh, okay.
It’s really something else how these fucks manage to make every day worse than the last…
Every day is better than the next
Steve Martin?
Edit: Chevy Chase!
“Thank you very little”
It’s a living nightmare, truly.
Meanwhile, people around me just carrying on like everything is normal. Maddening.
Late stage empire. It’s the “line goes down” era for most because the top insists their line has to keep going up
now I’ll feel even less guilty if they get shot
Brown shirts
“When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching around with torches and pictures of a Leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.” -Tim Snyder
For as much as I respect Snyder I don’t think that’s actually true. People fighting for our own freedom against the US government has been a very frequent feature of US history. But, something has definitely come when we reach that point, yes.
“when small people begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set” --Lin Yutang
All the local white supremacy youth around me have been missing for a while. I assumed ICE had hired them.
There’s a stew of very evil people simmering in the DHS.
