ICE: “Let’s Hire Teenagers, Give Them Guns, Masks and Cash Bonuses for Mass Deportations” – What Could Go Wrong?

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Washington, DC — The Associated Press reports that DHS is lowering the age requirement for becoming an ICE agent and the agency will now recruit teenagers to fill the expanded ICE workforce. As DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told “Fox & Friends” about the news, “We no longer have a cap on how old you can be … at age 18, sign up for ICE and join us and be a part of it.”

The plans to hire teenagers to become part of Stephen Miller’s mass deportation army comes after yesterday’s scoop from the New York Times that ICE was planning to “offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.”

The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice:

“Take a teenager with more testosterone than wisdom, arm them with guns and masks, fast cars and – to top it off – dangle cash incentives for indiscriminate and speedy arrests. Mix in an ICE culture of impunity and overreach. Now, what could go wrong?

Stephen Miller is like a kid in a candy store, turbo-charged by $170 billion in new taxpayer money to go for broke in an effort to deport as many immigrants as possible – it’s no surprise the Trump Administration is lowering ICE hiring standards rather than raising them. Details about ICE’s plans and warped incentives should send a chill down all Americans’ spines. Already, we’re witnessing the broad majority of Americans reject what they’re witnessing being done in our names. These latest revelations about ICE’s latest plans remind us it’s about to get worse unless more Americans make it clear to their elected officials that the chaos and cruelty being deployed in our communities is unacceptable.”

Read the America’s Voice Substack post, “Stephen Miller Is Getting $170 Billion To Build His Own Army To Target Our Immigrant Neighbors. Here’s What That Funding Could Do Instead”