During a multi-agency meeting earlier this week, Miller voiced frustration that Immigration and Customs Enforcement wasn’t bringing in deportation officers fast enough, CNN reported Thursday. Meanwhile, multiple sources told CNN that ICE has struggled to process the sudden surge of applicants after the agency dangled a $50,000 signing bonus in front of their noses, in the hopes of enticing Americans to join the legion of law enforcement officials ripping families apart.

“It’s a shit show,” an administration official told CNN.

Sources told NBC News Wednesday that multiple new recruits had arrived for training without being properly vetted, and just under 10 were turned away due to disqualifying criminal backgrounds or failed drug testing. At ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, staff discovered one recruit had previously been involved in a domestic violence incident, and was once charged with strong-arm robbery and battery. DHS officials told NBC News that other recruits in the six-week training course had not submitted their fingerprints for background checks, which is required by ICE.

CNN reported that in one case, ICE gave a conditional offer to a Drug Enforcement Administration informant, which was only caught by the DEA. In another case, an individual had a pending gun charge.

These mistakes come as the Trump administration has attempted to speed up the onboarding process, which used to take months, into a partially remote process that only takes 47 days, CNN reported.

Scott Shuchart, former head of policy at ICE during the Biden administration, suggested that the Trump administration had gone too far in attempting to streamline the process.“They’re trying to do something borderline impossible and they’re doing it too fast,” he told CNN.

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      Unfortunately, I think they have plenty volunteers. Luckily, as per usual this administration has managed to throw a wrench into their own evil plans by trying to be as efficient as possible without much of a grasp on fine details.

      They cut what they see as unnecessary red tape that makes things “slow and inefficient,” because they’re dumb enough to believe “run the government like a business,” is as simple as just maximizing profits and minimizing time and overhead.

      It’s like somebody reading a recipe, then having the brilliant idea that the bureaucratic chefs who came up with the recipe were just padding it with a lot of unnecessary extra steps and ingredients.

      They cut out multiple necessary steps and ingredients. Then, to save time, instead of baking at 300 degrees for 15 minutes, they figure they can just crank up the oven as high as it will go and bake it for 5 minutes.

      Stephen Miller is now fuming because he’s too much of a narcissist to acknowledge his “efficient” recipe just wasted more time and money by creating a final product of inedible goo that’s somehow burnt in some spots and dangerously undercooked in others.

      Instead of stepping back or listening to anyone who might actually know what they’re doing, Chef Stephen is demanding his disgusting masterpiece be sent out to America as is, even though it will undoubtedly end up giving us all food poisoning. Once that happens he’ll blame the staff in the kitchen who were trying to warn him the entire time.

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      It looks like Stephen Miller’s quest to hire 10,000 so-called “Homeland Defenders” by January isn’t going so well.

      During a multi-agency meeting earlier this week, Miller voiced frustration that Immigration and Customs Enforcement wasn’t bringing in deportation officers fast enough

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    Lo and behold, ICE recruitment attracts the worst pieces of shit of American society. Who would’ve thought?

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      These are people that couldn’t or wouldn’t become police officers, which would be bad enough. But now they are being given federal authority.

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      Yea, these are the people we should be sending to camps. If you apply you should be locked up. When will we get a Punisher to start taking them out?

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        I get the impulse but we really shouldn’t be sending people to camps, any people. It’s kind of a fucked up thing to do.

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              Which ICE officers out there don’t belong in prison? They’re committing several crimes by just being involved.

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                  What? This entire comment chain is about someone saying that it’s the ICE thugs who should be sent to camps. It’s specifically the thing we were talking about.

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      The incompetence led them to think the military doesn’t know shit and there is somehow this large pool of healthy Americans to recruit from.

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    Anytime you try to surge recruitment in anything, you lose quality. From what I’ve seen, ICE requirements are basically the floor already. Maybe they’re hoping for better candidates as SNAP expires and people get desperate.

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      It seems pretty clear that has been the strategy the entire time. Tank the economy but ICE is always hiring. You just have to sell your soul and probably develop a drinking/drug habit to dissociate during the day and sleep at night.

      You might be high/drunk all the time while carrying military grade weapons, but at least you’re not distracted on the job or kept up at night by the sounds of those terrified children crying for their mothers constantly echoing through your mind.

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      Doesn’t history tell a different story when you start taking the food away?

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      The picture of weird Stephen just casually walking, but somehow moving so oddly he looks like a makeup free Jack Nicholson era Joker doing an impersonation of a Heath Ledger era Joker.

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    So has anybody considered like trying to get a job at ice, but never doing the job just eating up as much time as possible? Just like showing up and asking a lot of questions, telling stories, etc., and then if you do get hired you just continue to take up as much time and energy as possible? I think if you could organize a bunch of people to do it, or just one at first, you could probably learn a lot. Like they’re desperate for people to hire, there’s gotta be a way to further mess with that

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    staff discovered one recruit had previously been involved in a domestic violence incident, and was once charged with strong-arm robbery and battery.

    Strange - these seem like ideal qualifications for ICE…

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      “So, I see from your resume you already have some experience wielding a weapon while wearing a ski mask, and violently assaulting innocent people in their homes? Welcome aboard!”

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      I feel pretty confident more than one of these assholes has perpetrated domestic violence. Maybe it didn’t get to court, but they definitely did it.

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    “They’re trying to do something borderline impossible and they’re doing it too fast,”

    Tearing down democracy takes time.

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    Hasn’t the $50k signing bonus been around since June? The article was released yesterday, but a lot of the stuff it discusses beyond the meeting seems to be older. Maybe they’re talking to pre-2025 ICE staff?

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      These mistakes come as the Trump administration has attempted to speed up the onboarding process, which used to take months, into a partially remote process that only takes 47 days, CNN reported.

      I’m not exactly sure when they streamlined the process, but I think they’re saying ICE has had a surge of applications since the sign on bonus was offered. Normally those applicants would take months to process just to get to the point of being scheduled for training. (detailed employment history, criminal background checks, fingerprinting, not to mention probably their own citizenship/legal status).

      Then from that point, if everything checks out during onboarding they’re supposed to go through the actual training. But since the onboarding process has been “streamlined,” people aren’t being weeded out for things that should have kept them from reaching the training stage.

      ICE officials are really feeling the strain once new recruits arrive for the agency’s training program, more than 200 applicants have already been terminated from the program because they did not meet the physical or academic requirements multiple new recruits had arrived for training without being properly vetted, and just under 10 were turned away due to disqualifying criminal backgrounds or failed drug testing. At ICE’s training academy one recruit had previously been involved in a domestic violence incident, and was once charged with strong-arm robbery and battery. other recruits in the six-week training course had not submitted their fingerprints for background checks, which is required by ICE.

      So these are all people it would seem should have been caught beforehand, but bc Stephen Miller is a dumbass micromanaging Nazi shitstain, he is doing that thing everybody in this administration does (demanding impossible results because he doesn’t actually know what TF he’s doing). Hence the ensuing shit show. Yet, all Miller cares about is numbers and quotas bc that means more money for his private prison and Palantir investments.

      Now the people who are supposed to focus on the training process are having to do things that aren’t even part of their job in order to screen out people that should have already been screened out. Likely this delays the entire process for everyone bc once again it turns out the inefficient bureaucratic red tape existed for a fucking reason.

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        I wonder if the result is going to be using the National Guard instead of ICE where they don’t “have enough agents.”

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      What $50k signing bonus? We don’t know anything about that. That expired right before you signed up. -DJT

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    While it’s true that anything that I can imagine that makes Stephen “Nazi Guy” Miller fume makes me happy, it’s also the case that he should be required to file an Environmental Impact Statement, as I’m certain those fumes are toxic AF.