ICE is paying retirees big bucks to come back and terrorize immigrants
Now that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget is larger than those for most of the world’s militaries, they’ve got plenty of money sloshing around to hire 10,000 new agents, which will surely allow them to ratchet up arrests of harmless day laborers at Home Depot. But how to find those 10,000 new hires? ICE seems to be starting by begging retirees to come back.
A recruitment page on ICE’s website features the obligatory scowling Uncle Sam. Retired ICE agents who return are eligible for up to $50,000 in bonuses and can still receive their basic federal retirement annuity. In other words, for these rehires, taxpayers will be paying:
Their base salary, which starts at $105,000 for ICE criminal investigators and nearly $89,000 for deportation officers.
Federal health care benefits.
Base federal retirement annuity.
A stratospheric hiring bonus of up to $50,000.
That may seem like a steep price, but hey, how else to ensure that migrant children are left alone when their mothers are deported, or that immigrants are mistakenly deported? How else to ensure that ICE has enough agents to arrest migrants at courthouses after federal immigration judges, in collusion with government attorneys, drop immigration cases so that the migrant can be immediately arrested when they leave the courtroom?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/22/2334457/-ICE-is-paying-retirees-big-bucks-to-come-back-and-terrorize-immigrants
Who knew thuggery paid so well?
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