Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas. Could happy endings be expected with the group that hired them?
This is Awesome! Best thing I’ve seen all week.
Well the current admin did promise to cut down on costs and actually letting them keep their bonuses would be a huge cost.
Remember, my friends, this is still part of the scam. Now they will file lawsuits, paid for by you and I, the taxpayers, and they’ll get partial bonuses paid out in the end.
It will probably be a class action lawsuit which famously really pays out the lawyers more than the actual plaintiffs. Just another way to grease the palms of the rich.
You cant sue the government, or use class action litigation
If only there was some way to predict …
awww. poor babies just wanted to shoot brown people, and now they’re getting fired?!
Even better, they’re getting un-paid the money they already spent on a Cybertruck.
The craziest ones are the brown people that signed up
The best they could possibly do is lock down the wife and kids of the couch f*cker.
That’s the craziest part, all these sociopaths in power have immigrant wives or parents, with Trumplethinskin being the prime example.
This move is right out of the Trump business playbook. He’s been not paying workers and committing fraud against contractors his entire adult life. Avoiding the payout was the plan from day 1 when the bonus was offered–I’m betting Trump himself recommended this outcome. Fuck ICE. I hope every agent experiences bankruptcy and hardship. They ruined their lives to serve a child-rapist.
I thought they didn’t get the money until they reached a milestone, like 3 years later.
Aren’t signing bonuses explicitly an early in the job sort of thing?
Normally yes but I think they weren’t actual signing bonuses. To be honest, I read somewhere that some were quitting because they were afraid they would never get the bonuses, but I neither remember the source, not its veracity. But a lot of times it’s Lemmy.
Yea that’s normally how it works, but the news was reporting the fine print of some who signed on not getting their bonuses until they’ve met a 3 year minimum or having to pay it back. Like with anything Trump, the money was never real.
It’s in the name
Right right, but this was advertising language. In reality it was a one-time performance bonus, but they called it a signing bonus to trick people into joining.
The problem ICE lawyers will have is that if they call it a signing bonus, maybe the fine print doesn’t matter, because people reasonably believed that it was one… So my prediction is a class action lawsuit. Although that will be interesting because there are limits on what federal employees can sue for. We shall see.
Legaly speaking, if your employee has comited crimes during their work, can’t you ask them to give back even more than just the signing bonus?
I am quite sure ICE keeps informations on their ex agents…
Yes but isn’t it normally expected for you to stay for more than 3 days rather than taking it and fucking off?
This is objectively funny.
Fuck every single one of them. I hope they are financially crippled from this and learn something important about trusting authoritarians.
It’s even funnier. The bonus was taxable, they paid not a little bit of it to tax right away. They don’t get that refunded but they do still have to repay the 50K in full.
In other words, trying to be a racist pieces of shit professionally was very expensive. As it should be.
Guess who those taxes are going to. This keeps getting funnier the more I think about it.
Guess who the tariffs went to. This is extortion
I don’t think that’s how these people are wired.
They’re conditioned to blame others for their problems. They will just blame harder.
I can’t wait to find out how they will blame the woke left for this very thing they were warned about.
Biden took the 50k!!!
He shit in my pants too!
I think I speak for all of us when I say,
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA
HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA
Iirc many of the signing bonuses required a contract of 5 years.
Which is conveniently 1 year longer than the president’s term…
Eh, what you’re implying is not how these things usually work. If the government side terminates your contract early, you keep the bonus. I’ve seen it in the military. People signed with bonuses that the government paid up front. Then while the member was in tech school his position got cut (Air National Guard), so they ended his contract but he kept the bonus because he wasn’t the one that invalidated the contract. If it works the same and these ICE agents did get terminated by the next administration, they would still keep their bonus.
If there is a next term, it will be someone who supports ICE continuing to exist.
Stupids getting suckered and left holding the bag, not my problem.
But also making a violent, lawless, militarized force loyal to one person, not the office.
Trump ain’t going to pay those debts for them.
Lol no way, is this true? It’s the world actually not as bad as it always seems, because that’s fucking hilarious.
This is exactly to motivate those thugs so they do everything that trump stays in power after 2029.
Not only they might need to pay 50,000 that they probably already spent, but might be also told that they will go to jail for doing what they were told to keep that 50k.
I wouldn’t be surprised that those fired ICE were fired, because they had issues with what they were told to do.
win/win for trump :(
ICE has been quietly firing some of the roughly 12,000 officers it hired during its 2025 rapid expansion, citing background red flags that former DHS officials say should have been caught before hiring and because of poor performance.
A whistleblower told the DHS Office of Inspector General in August 2025 that final job offers were being issued before fingerprint, identity, and credit checks were completed, and that some recruits began training or duty while investigations were still open
I shudder at the thought of what “poor performance” means at ICE. Not enough arrests? Not enough tasered people?
Not enough tortures, I guess
Probably more like tasering people while being filmed. As long as it’s off camera it never happened.
And as funny as it sounds, it’s probably true. They have been told to be brutal, just don’t end up on the evening news beside a dead body.
In this admin poor performance could also mean not being harsh enough.
There never was ask for competency, trump fires like for not being loyal enough.
A few months ago, I asked Lemmy how much I could expect to make if I went through ICE training, and quit immediately before my first operational deployment. I’d bet I wasn’t the only one to contemplate such a scam.
People who failed a psychological profile to become a cop
Ex military that had war crimes and gross misconduct swept under the rug so higher-ups could save face?
Probably paperwork issues that delay full depotions. I could see the courts full of wrongfully arrest lawsuits because there US citazen paperwork was available but not filed correctly. It comes with the arrest now ask questions later mentality.
I wonder if any of those are non-fascists who joined with the intent of sabotage.
Please tell us you have a source for this, that is awesome
The source has already been posted, but I remember a journalist reporting that she applied to ice and they hired her immediately without doing any background research and after she had responded saying she had recanted her application
Not surprising given what we’ve seen reported: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
spoiler/quote
Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job.
According to the application portal, my pre-employment activities remained pending. And yet, it also showed that I had accepted a final job offer and that my onboarding status was “EOD”—Entered On Duty, the start of an enlistment period. I moused over the exclamation mark next to “Onboarding” and a helpful pop-up appeared. “Your EOD has occurred. Welcome to ICE!”
I clicked through to my application tracking page. They’d sent my final offer on Sept. 30, it said, and I had allegedly accepted. “Welcome to Ice. … Your duty location is New York, New York. Your EOD was on Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.”
By all appearances, I was a deportation officer. Without a single signature on agency paperwork, ICE had officially hired me.
Perhaps, if I’d accepted, they would have demanded my pre-employment paperwork, done a basic screening, realized their mistake, and fired me immediately. And yet, the pending and upcoming tasks list suggested a very different outcome. My physical fitness test had been initiated on Oct. 6, it said: three days in the future. My medical check had apparently been completed on Oct. 6.
I’m surprised they are not getting the latino officers to drive a bus of deportees into Mexico and then not letting them back.
citing background red flags that
you fuck one goat…
maybe apply with the FBI if that was the case ?
Offering the job before the background check!?
Good gosh everyone involved in this should be fired and legally barred from ever being involved in hiring again.
Came here looking for this, lmao
Not only do these idiots get what they deserve, but it’s also hilarious that Trump is scamming and turning his most hardcore supporters against him
They’ll still be voting for whatever republican is on the ballot
Because they’re stupid
They are single issue voters, oh sorry you already said stupid.
I doubt they’re against him. Somehow its Bidens fault or Obamas fault or Canadas fault
Mm, nothing like pissing on J6’ers, which have actually revolted.
