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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/two-days-talking-to-people-looking-for-jobs-at-ice/

This is not what I'd call a "fun read", but it is a good one, and someone looked into this a bit.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Whoa.

But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America.

People attempting to hide in the belly of the beast, perhaps? I wonder how that's gonna work out.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sadly a lot of US-born and raised Hispanics can be just as racist, if not more racist, against migrants and refugees as white Americans. In particular Mexicans and Chicanos (who represent a massive portion of Border Patrol cops) tend to not like each other.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I suspect many are just looking for a paycheck. ICE agents are slated to be pretty well paid from what I've read. We just handed over a historic amount of money to them as well, and even though I expect a large amount of institutional corruption, a significant percentage of it is going to go to personnel.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

In addition to obscene salaries they're likely robbing detainees of any cash and personal items they were carrying. No due process or criminal charges means that there's pretty much no legal requirement to keep or return personal items like police normally do (TSA has been robbing travelers for years too) ICE can pretty much do what ever they want with it because the detainees aren't able to complain or press charges.

So yeah, pretty lucrative. Gold is sky rocketing so lots of wedding rings and watches are headed to pawn shops. Nazis pretty much did the same during the holocaust.