Thoughts on Trump administration easing restrictions to join ICE to boost recruitment?

[Cubus]

The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that it is lifting the age limits for people who want to join Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose masked agents have fanned out across the country to detain people suspected of being in the country without legal status.

“We no longer have a cap on how old you can be,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in an interview on FOX to tout the new policy. “We’ll get you trained and ready to be equipped to go out on the streets and help protect families.”

In addition to lifting the age restrictions, DHS is also offering a signing bonus of up to $50,000, student loan repayment assistance and other benefits to attract recruits, the agency said in a news release.

ICE, which has about 20,000 personnel, has until recently required recruits to be at least 21. Candidates to be criminal investigators, with limited exceptions, could not be older than 37 and deportation officers could not be over 40.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/06/trump-ice-immigration-00496051

[exitseven]

They are hiring 10,000 new agents. If I did not have a fake hip I might join myself. They are looking for retired law enforcement people I imagine.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO

[BadApple69]

I love the idea. I would consider doing it. Removing people who don’t belong here is something I support and can get behind.

[dustybiker2]

@BadApple69 if that was what they were doing everybody would support it. No warrants signed by judges and targeting citizens purely because they're brown to make $30,000 a head (factual documented incentive) are things which are not legal.

[BadApple69]

Please link to that document. I know several ice agents. I would love to show them that they are making $30k a head lol. I’m sure they are unaware.
No warrants are needed to remove illegal immigrants.
Anyone who runs across the border illegally do not automatically get the same rights as a U. S. citizen.
So again… if you are here illegally, no warrants are required to catch and remove an illegal.
Last point…. ICE is NOT targeting citizens. No citizen has been deported.

[dustybiker2]

Oh you have friends. Uh huh.
A man getting arrested for being brown was recoding the arrest. The fake ICE trump proud boy nazi wannabes were talking about it and was caught in the mans phone. He released it to the independent news.

Have to watch to hear. BOOM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=skW18M6Cwdo

[OlderAndWiser]

The country has been invaded and we need all possible assistance in expelling the invaders. Yes, this is like going to war! It is a war to save our country.

[Syntosi]

I find it endlessly funny that both Russia and Trump has to resort to the same increasingly desperate begging to find recruits for their goon squads. It also highlights perfectly that there are no real standards for being an ICE officer. They are essentially just roleplaying as a serious force.

[exitseven]

I think that they are trying to attract retired law enforcement. They would not ha e to train them , just turn them loose

[Syntosi]

@exitseven If they were then they could have had that as a requirement. Your theory does not hold water. They dont want a particular group of people, they want ANYBODY. Especially since they are advertising that they removed their recruitment standards such as age limits and trying to tempt people with student debt to sign up.

[exitseven]

There are a lot if ICE agents that have retired at 52. During the Biden administration a lot of them were sick of not being able to do their job so they quit or retired. ICE is trying to get them to come back

[Syntosi]

@exitseven Hiring people at 52+ is again smelling of desperation and hiring people with prior experience that you can "just turn loose" is again just telling me that they dont even have the capability to provide the training in the first place.

If I was in charge of rebuilding ICE then I would focus on training up young people since that would be the best investment of time and money. After all, you only need to train them once and then they can have an entire career within the department and if you give them the best training that money could buy then that would definitely be worth it.

But I digress. ICE is clearly desperate to find enough people to recruit.

[exitseven]

I used to deal a lot with police departments. It was common practice for one department to poach a cop from another town so they did not have to send them to the police academy for 150 grand

[Syntosi]

@exitseven ICE is not a police department and their requirements are different. Also, they are poaching people because they are desperate. Also, also, whoever poaches a retire of 52+ is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[exitseven]

There are plenty of people over 50 that are still very tough. If I did not have a fake hip I might join ICE myself. I could not pass the eye test fot the Air Force so maybe I could serve my country this way.

[Syntosi]

@exitseven Dont care. Over 53 has no business being recruited into ICE.

[dustybiker2]

It shows they are desperate to find people willing to do the job. Most people have a conscience and his base is running out of enthusiasm for him.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Marjorie Holtby Johnson, the long-ago "Blue Ribbon" Baker, and University Of Loyola Chaplain Sister Jean Schmidt are 106. Can they join ICE, though along with being a centennarian, Sister Jean is wheelchair-bound?

[LuXtreme]

Trump and Tayyip are shit.

[seeyounexttuesday]

I may do it when I retire.

[Pterodon]

All for it. Whatever it takes

[kavakava]

Good idea.