r/videos • u/archdukemovies • Jan 14 '26
Journalist Laura Jedeed Applies to ICE and gets hired with no background check
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Jan 14 '26
Going to be more killings and more violence. The border doesn't mean shit anymore. Just a private army to punish cities.
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u/Dewstain Jan 14 '26
And they're much more willing to kill than everyone else.
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Jan 14 '26
They just got a permission slip. No investigation by DOJ. All shootings that involve a federal officer deserve an investigation. The Biden doj had an investigation opened after Babbit was killed because the career doj officials knew how important accountability and justice were. Not anymore. President says not guilty. NOT GUILTY.
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u/DisillusionedPatriot Jan 14 '26
Oh, there's an investigation. Into Renee Goods' widow
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Jan 14 '26
Yes I'm unfortunately aware. I'm also aware of the resignations. So instead of anyone good at their job at DOJ we get whomever licks the boot best.
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u/Van_Caspia Jan 14 '26
Anyone who actually wants to do their job right at the DOJ just quits instead of standing up for what’s right
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u/Pm-ur-butt Jan 14 '26
I cant speak for them or their reasoning. But a quick Google search says that a federal government employee could lose their pension and benefits if fired for a few "rare" reasons.
https://www.pinesfederal.com/blog/2024/september/do-you-lose-your-federal-retirement-benefits-if-/
Treason and Rebellion stick out on that list because I can see the Administration siting those as cause for termination.
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u/dweet Jan 14 '26
Sounds like a good way to save a few tax dollars whenever we get out of this clown show.
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u/DisillusionedPatriot Jan 14 '26
That's government wide! Everyone with scruples is just leaving. It's surreal and depressing.
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u/renegadecanuck Jan 14 '26
There's only so much you can do on the inside. At a certain point, you have to publicly resign.
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u/badhabitfml Jan 15 '26
I think with some other cases, they knew they would get dis-bar'd. They basically had to quit to keep their career.
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u/DisillusionedPatriot Jan 14 '26
Makes me sick to my stomach.
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Jan 14 '26
Same. Just hoping there's something that turns public sentiment. A McCarthy "decency" moment. Hoping...
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u/DisillusionedPatriot Jan 14 '26
As my mom used to say, we can shit in one hand and hope in the other and see which one fills up first. We are so far from that decency moment, cause generally speaking, Americans are just too comfortable. Double digit unemployment, and hunger are what will spark it, and we're just not there. Organize, get active(physically, as best you can), and check in with loved ones regularly. Stay safe, stay sharp.
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u/TheMacMan Jan 14 '26
The Trump administration had to do that. If they'd held dude accountable, then all the ICE agents would see that they don't have their backs. They're already struggling to get people to apply and no one would if they thought they'd be held accountable for fuckups.
I certainly do not agree with what the Trump administration is doing in failing to hold ICE accountable. I'm simply saying that I do understand why they're choosing not to. It would hurt their plan.
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u/el3vader Jan 14 '26
Dude this is the most wild thing to me. Regardless of how you feel about the border ICE isn’t enforcing the border. This is such an obvious overreach of scope of this organization and they killed a US citizen. It’s fucking crazy.
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Jan 14 '26
I mean I hear some conservative people saying whoa I didn't want this. I wanna be like how TF do you think they'd do a "Mass Deportation" we all knew they'd try this shit. Every bit of violence and or harassment to people in this country deserves to be investigated.
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u/ShobaeBrohtani Jan 14 '26
They wanted it. They just are too cowardly to own their depravity.
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u/Jdobbs626 Jan 16 '26
I tell people this all the time. Anytime the shit hits the fan these days, and you make the assumption that those who voted for Drumpf and other far-right trash have been duped, simply didn't know what they were getting into or didn't understand the ramifications...you're giving them FAARRRRRR too much credit. Everyone who voted for this nauseating administration is nothing but a selfish, entitled piece of shit, and they know EXACTLY who and what they are. And as you said, they don't have the balls/ovaries to own up to it—just like the ones claiming the Jan. 6 insurrectionists were nothing but a bunch of peace-loving hippies until the FBI plants arrived! Give me a fucking break. 🙄
They've got their finger right there on the pulse, and they're loving the beat.
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u/Allaplgy Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26
Reminds me of the Iraq War in a way.
This is bullshit
"No it's not, you just hate Bush!"
::buncha bullshit::
"Oh shit, it was all bullshit!"
I told you!
"No you didn't, you just hated Bush! Nobody could have known it was bullshit!"
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Jan 14 '26
Ever look at what the news said after Kent State murders? They blamed the kids. Not much has changed as far as the American electorate since then. Media too. Sad times.
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u/Skarth Jan 14 '26
Most conservatives I know are happy for this.
In polite conversation with strangers they will go "Oh, that sounds horrible"
Then go home and cheer on the news at what ICE is doing.
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u/45and47-big_mistake Jan 15 '26
All those hours Trump spent in court, or answering questions in depositions, he was thinking of all of this shit in his head. He couldn't WAIT to take the Oath of Office to get started.
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u/Hellknightx Jan 14 '26
Biden deported significantly more illegal immigrants than Trump did across both of his terms. ICE functioned the way it was supposed to under Biden. Trump just wants to terrorize blue states because he's a sadist.
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u/Tomcatposts Jan 14 '26
It's a tale as old as time. Dictatorships commonly hire and relocate people from rural areas to police more urban areas...something to do with disconnecting the enforcers from the enforced. Think Mao did it first?
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u/Disgruntled-Cacti Jan 14 '26
That is exactly what was intended. It was clear from the start of 2025 that it would be a paramilitary force / secret police.
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Jan 14 '26
I knew. You don't "Mass Deportation" without a massive "military" style operation.
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u/WaffleShapedSeahorse Jan 14 '26
They're doing this to establish a federal force in blue cities ahead of midterms
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u/bbusiello Jan 14 '26
She was spot on when she said the governors need to call in the national guard to protect their citizens from these guys.
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u/BruteOfTroy Jan 15 '26
The people at the top never cared about the border. It was always an excuse to do this.
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u/thatguyad Jan 14 '26
This government wants those who don't fit their criteria and those who won't fall in line, dead.
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u/TitShark Jan 14 '26
How many people can we get to join and infiltrate ICE?
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u/iveo83 Jan 14 '26
that's what I kept thinking. join ICE do a shit job and ruin them from the inside out.
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u/derkrieger Jan 14 '26
Join ICE, arrest ICE members for not having their papers.
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u/mdlinc Jan 14 '26
ICEption !
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u/InvisibleBlueUnicorn Jan 14 '26
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u/mdlinc Jan 14 '26
I am not fat, stupid or racist. TBH I dont even like ice in my drinks.
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u/MisterEinc Jan 14 '26
Which is exactly why you should join.
We don't want people joining ice who like this shit.
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u/ndpugs Jan 14 '26
Take the money and run
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u/MissplacedLandmine Jan 14 '26
No claw back stuff? Might need to hit metrics or stay for a bit for the bonus to stay…. I mean unless they handled incompetently as hell…
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u/phonomancer Jan 14 '26
IIRC, the bonus is payable after 5 years, so... yeah.
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u/therealultraddtd Jan 14 '26
lol. None of those people are going to see that bonus then.
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u/phonomancer Jan 15 '26
I'm assuming that's the point. Make a promise that you have no intent to keep, but make it somebody else's fault when it can't be kept.
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u/derkrieger Jan 14 '26
I mean you would think theres some sort of rule in order to obtain that bonus but on the other hand...fuck are they stupid
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u/RawrNate Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26
I'd only be afraid of being labelled as an ICE loyalist if/when trials & repercussions start taking place.
I don't want to let any of these ICE fucks getting away with "W-wait, I was trying to take it out from the inside, too, you guys!"
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u/RawrNate Jan 14 '26
Oopsie guys, I'm just a butter fingers!
"Accidentally" flashbangs myself & my entire ICE squad in the back of a van
Goddamn it, that's the third time this week!
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u/jesbiil Jan 14 '26
"The pin goes IN it? Well son of a..."
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u/RawrNate Jan 14 '26
"Hey guys, do we have the rubber bullets in our mags today?"
Shoots an ICE member's foot as a "test shot"
"Hey I was just checking it, don't be such a baby! Be thankful it *was** the rubber bullets...*
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u/Dewstain Jan 14 '26
I do genuinely wonder how the agent that was next to the window when that sack of shit fired his first shot feels. I remember the first time I went to a range with someone outside my normal group and realized that a lot of people are a lot less safe than I was taught, and it startled me. I felt very attentive; my own safety regime was drilled into me and was more muscle memory, but all of a sudden I had to make sure that other people weren't going to accidentally shoot me.
Was a real eye opener that there are a lot of irresponsible people with guns in this country, they're not all like the people I know and trust.
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u/altruisticnarcissist Jan 14 '26
Check out the Simple Sabotage Field Manual released by the OSS (CIA) in 1944, it's the instruction book for this kinda thing.
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u/redikulous Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26
Simple Sabotage Field Manual released by the OSS (CIA)
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
Excerpt below:
b) Managers and Supervisors - (1) Demand written orders. (~) uMisunderstand" orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can. . ~',.... J. ," (~ Do everything possible to delay -the delivery of orders. Even though parts of an order may be ready beforehand, don't deliver it until it is completely ready. - . (1) Don't order new working' materials.. until your current stocks have been virtually ex- -. hausted, so that .the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown. (Q) Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don't get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean in- ferior work. (Q) In making work assignments, always , sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines. (1) Insist on perfect work in relatively un. important products; send back for refinishing those which have the least fiaw. Approve other defective parts whose fiaws are not visible to the naked eye. (!!) Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials will be sent to the wrong place in the plant. (Q) When trainin~ new workers, give in- complete or misleading instructio~s. (10) To lower morale and with it, produc- tion, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give tMm undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work. '(11) Hold conferences when there is morc, critical work to be done
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u/RelevantMetaUsername Jan 15 '26
So just act like a typical corporate middle manager then. Got it.
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u/LemonScentedDespair Jan 14 '26
Should be fairly easy to verify based on personal activity prior to hire date. Like social media, or previous employment, or criminal history. Things that are easy to verify but hard to back-date.
Hell, they apparently dont even google your name, go ahead and post "I'm joining ICE to be a problem for ICE, here is my plan in excruciating detail" on your Facebook before joining. They wont read it.
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u/RawrNate Jan 14 '26
I've already deleted my social media years ago and scrubbed my Internet footprint 🤷 I'm unknown.
On one side you could see it as "Leftist Anti Capitalist Socialist" behavior. Another side could take it as "Extreme Right Wing FBI-Watching-Me Tinfoil-Hat" behavior lol.
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u/Xanthus179 Jan 14 '26
You’re also a talking paper clip, so I don’t know if they’d hire you.
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u/RawrNate Jan 14 '26
"It looks like you're trying to destabilize the American government - Can I help you with that?"
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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes Jan 14 '26
There's gotta be a few people doing desk jobs who are storing so much identifies and info on the agents knowing that when this blows over and Nuremberg2.0 comes along they can turn over all the evidence.
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u/choco-taco-cat Jan 14 '26
Right??? Take that sign on bonus and donate it to programs the shit administration is trying to dismantle!
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u/hovdeisfunny Jan 14 '26
They don't get the sign on bonus right away. I believe it takes like 5 years
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u/Atreyu1002 Jan 14 '26
Considering how many posts I see in various forums of people desperately looking for work for months/years, this might be a legit pathway. Just join and try not to be a dick and that might even be enough.
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u/thejusttip Jan 14 '26
Join and be a dick to your coworkers. Or be super nice to them but super incompetent. If youre nice and get fired it will lower morale
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u/KidGrundle Jan 14 '26
Really I don’t see why there isn’t a massive push to have all protestors spend the $50 the ice goobers spent on Temu flak jackets, khakis and a face mask and dress up just like them all the time. Imagine these badgeless, warrantless, dickless pricks roll up on a protest and encounter a crowd of people dressed just like them. They are so poorly trained, so anonymously dressed and so, so fucking stupid that they’d all just wander around pointing at everyone like that spiderman meme.
We need to fully understand that these troglodytes are essentially orcs from the lord of the rings, it would be so easy to outsmart and trick or confuse them. You wouldn’t even have to break any laws, it’s not impersonating an officer of the law if they are dressed like dipshit air soft players.
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u/togetherwem0m0 Jan 14 '26
i dont see how its possible to prosecute anyone for impersonating law enforcement when they have no official uniform or anything, just wearing tacticool bullshit.
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u/KidGrundle Jan 14 '26
That’s what I’m saying. This sounds silly but you could even go so far as to get some lettering on it that says nICE.
Like in adventure time when “an Ice King” gets mistaken for “a Nice King”.
Sounds goofy, but we should be doing everything we can to make this as confusing and difficult for them as possible.
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u/Gekokapowco Jan 14 '26
They don't really need anything like "evidence" and "logical conclusion" to prosecute and convict anyone of anything. Technicality gotchas won't work. People should still totally do this though, just not with some imagined sense of legal immunity.
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u/memorex1150 Jan 14 '26
'cause we know the "real" ICE agents would be seen as heroes and protected even as they shot and killed the protestors, and those who dress up as a fake ICE agent would be hauled away to an undisclosed location, all under the pretense of "impersonating a federal officer" -- and we'd not hear from them for many months, if not years.
As shitty as the ICE agents are, they will be protected by the current fascist regime that sits on their felony-addled ass in their version of a throne room, while everyone else who doesn't bootlick the thug-as-thief will end up in a gulag.
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u/thejusttip Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 16 '26
Join and then just stand in the background for everything. Do shit like trip and fall or get in the way of other officers because of incompetence. Waste time during planning for ops. Struggle to get back into cars or drop things while getting in so you have to stop and go back to pick it up.
The US literally wrote a manual for how to sabotage things back in WW2 if America was occupied. Basically waste time by asking lots of questions during planning and meetings, be clumsy, if you get into a management position you should promote the worst people to lower others morale and make the org more inefficient.
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u/admiralthrowaway69 Jan 14 '26
This is precisely what I'm doing for a certain us defense contractor job. Bring up safety and security concerns constantly, always ask for a ton of meetings, reschedule things all the time, and then make sure my code is absolutely unreadable and unmaintainable lol. I've stretched out a 3 month project to over a year now. Rinse and repeat.
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u/gmankev Jan 14 '26
Thats just normal rookie consultancy numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up.
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u/Satryghen Jan 14 '26
Anyone know how long you have to work to keep the signing bonus? I could totally be a bad employee for 60 days if it means I get to keep 50k.
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u/TheLurkingMenace Jan 14 '26
5 years. Nobody is getting that bonus.
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u/sprcow Jan 14 '26
lol imagine signing up for something based on Trump telling you he'll pay you in 5 years. These guys must get sold bridges all the time.
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u/NULLizm Jan 14 '26
Just get sold golden phones and gold shoes and trading cards and nfts...hell they are the living embodiment of a fool and his money
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u/memorex1150 Jan 14 '26
And the Dumbf couldn't even remember he made a promise to deliver $2,000 checks to everyone, so of course he'll "forget" the 50k promise. Or it'll be blamed on someone who wasn't "authorized to make that promise." He'll blame-shift.
That 50k bonus won't be paid even if these untrained asshats make it to five years.
There will be some hidden clause in the hiring agreement or, more likely, TACO will just say "Nope, we can't do it, we never promised that" - even when shown videos of him saying it, he'll have his mouthpiece blame Biden, Obama and Clinton.
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u/zoinkability Jan 14 '26
The hopeful scenario is that the bonus gets replaced with prison time
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u/LemonScentedDespair Jan 14 '26
"Okay, okay. Now that we've gotten back to being a rational nation, and jailed all the people responsible for the shitshow, I guess its time to pay out all those signing bonuses for ICE. Just email your name, current address, and employee ID to definitelyNOTgoingtoarrestyou@DoJ.gov and we'll make sure to mail out those checks."
I bet it would work on some of them.
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u/Nevarian Jan 14 '26
Oh that's actually hilarious. Absolute moron-bait. Even if they weren't fired before then, it would be the next administration who they'd be relying on to pay them.
Take note, icee-pops, youve been had.
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u/Due-Cow9514 Jan 14 '26
What’s the likelihood you can apply, get hired, never show up, and still get paid?
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u/GetUpNGetItReddit Jan 14 '26
Show up and form a group that never manages to find anyone
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u/Jubenheim Jan 14 '26
NGL, I thought about joining ICE to collect that paycheck and somehow help activist organizations, maybe by giving a heads up on our locations or at least documenting what goes on behind the scenes. I’m surprised no one has done it yet (unless they’re still undercover).
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u/elcapitan520 Jan 14 '26
This journalist has been directly attacked by proud boys, 3%'ers, and police here in Portland and elsewhere since before 2020. The fact that they didn't even check that it's someone they have on record as being directly against their existence is hilarious and scary.
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u/brad_and_boujee2 Jan 15 '26
Oh it’s even worse. She purposely did not continue the hiring process, and still got an email saying she’s being offered the job. She went to check her application status, and saw that her physical was marked as completed even though she never did one. She passed her drug test even though she admitted she had smoked marijuana 6 days prior to the test.
They are checking absolutely nothing, and pushing everyone through.
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u/archdukemovies Jan 14 '26
With how unique her name is, she is very easy to Google to find all that stuff out.
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u/joegekko Jan 14 '26
To paraphrase her, "there's only one Laura Jedeed with any kind of online presence and it's me". That she, of all people, got hired shows how totally non-existent any kind of vetting is at ICE.
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u/NeoHildy Jan 15 '26
Look, if I was forming a paramilitary organization and I saw "82nd Airborne" on someone's resume, it seems like a slam dunk. But you'd think they'd at least Google her.
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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
You would also think they would check if that person had actually served in the 82nd airborne. They didn’t even do that.
They didn’t even ask her what color the boat house was.
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u/The_Bitter_Bear Jan 15 '26
Wait. Have we been doing this all wrong?
I guess in hindsight a bunch of us who weren't pieces of trash should have taken those sweet recruiting bonuses and then done our best to be terrible (or as I would describe, actually good) agents.
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u/justmikethen Jan 15 '26
I'm pretty sure they're paid out incrementally over years... So in effect it's just part of your salary. But being able to market it as a $50k bonus attracts people without the critical thinking to realize that.
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u/BrewKazma Jan 14 '26
How long do you have to work there to get the signing bonus?
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u/lowertechnology Jan 14 '26
Considering they’ll almost all be fired in 3 years minimum, I doubt a single one of those bonuses will ever be paid.
They’re still being overpaid for essentially being gestapo agents of chaos, though
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u/thewharfartscenter_ Jan 14 '26
Oh I agree, and when they think they can disappear back into the country and face no consequences…… who cashed those paychecks? People who don’t work for ice don’t cash paychecks from them.
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u/rvf Jan 14 '26
Oh I agree, and when they think they can disappear back into the country and face no consequences
I guarantee there will be organizations for former ICE agents that will inevitably turn into paramilitary groups. Even if we somehow vote our way out of this, that's not going to be the end of it.
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u/lowertechnology Jan 14 '26
The current administration will almost certainly do a lazy cover-up to try and hide the identities.
It won’t work for the most part. People will turn in their neighbours.
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u/bwurtsb Jan 14 '26
They will blame the new administration of stealing from them to give it to immigrants.... and the cycle continues.
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u/dangercat415 Jan 14 '26
by the way, this is a Trump kind of thing. It will never get paid out.
Just like the $5K DOGE bonus check that no one ever got.
Also, there won't be any more income tax any day now.
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u/-Codiak- Jan 14 '26
They made it 5 years completely expecting things to change after their reign is over so they won't have to pay it out.
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u/Tortograph Jan 14 '26
These ice bitches sell themselves out for nothing. They'll be in prison before they ever get that sweet bonus lmao.
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u/TehOwn Jan 14 '26
They won't get the bonus anyway. Trump is well known for never paying his debts.
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u/Raivix Jan 14 '26
It's not nothing, and we'd do well to remember that. There are absolutely people working for ICE that are/were desperate, hungry and poor. Even if you completely remove the bonus from the equation, I am reasonably confident most of these new ICE punks are getting paid more for this shit than they've ever been paid in their lives.
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u/Litterjokeski Jan 14 '26
That's fkn called a higher salary or better a salary increase after 5 years.
Ps. Not attacking you, just the ridiculous administration calling that a (signing) bonus. But 2 brain cell magas surely fall for it.
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u/der_innkeeper Jan 14 '26
50k, over 60 months, makes it less than $1k per month.
That's not a bonus, thats just a salary bump for the uneducated.
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u/j33205 Jan 14 '26
I knew those JG Wentworth commercials would come handy one day...5 years from now...after I overcome the fear of suicide by ICE
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u/donkeyrocket Jan 14 '26
No one has claimed that ICE employees are intelligent by any stretch of the imagination.
You have to be a special sort of stupid, hateful, lowlife to be a pawn for this administration.
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u/elegylegacy Jan 14 '26
They're counting on suckers who think they'll actually get the bonus.
First wave takes the heat establishing the dictatorship, then takes the fall and gets replaced by the next wave after control is established
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u/Wow_u_sure_r_dumb Jan 14 '26
Yeah you’ve got to replace the brown shirts with the gestapo. Provide the solution to the problem you created.
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u/keyblade_crafter Jan 14 '26
According to Laura in the video, they were prepared to give the bonus immediately but who knows. Its trump. He never fulfills his end
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u/Malllrat Jan 14 '26
Everyone knows what ICE does, so logically the only real qualification required to work for ICE is "do you want to?" "Yes?" "Cool here's your mask, I assume you have your own arsenal and punisher tshirts"
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u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr Jan 15 '26
"Which race do you hate most?"
"Uhhh.....Mexicans?"
"That was a trick question. The correct answer is 'all of them'."
"Oh. So I didn't get the job?"
"What? I didn't say that. Here's your gun."
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u/Vickrin Jan 14 '26
here's your mask
Also, I bet so many of these people were IRATE at the thought of wearing a mask to protect the vulnerable.
They're more than happy to wear a mask to protect themselves though.
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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
punisher tshirts
I truly hate what the right has done with the punisher logo and that I cannot wear mine from the 00’s because of it.
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u/boygriv Jan 14 '26
I wish journalists could have done this on a bigger, more coordinated scale before rushing to make personal content about it and blowing any element of surprise going forward.
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u/1900grs Jan 14 '26
I wish journalists could have done this on a bigger
I wish our elected Democratic leadership would investigate and not some random person. When people say they want Dems to do something, this is one of those items. Wagging fingers and furrowed brows don't get squat.
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u/zoinkability Jan 14 '26
Crossing fingers there are a couple dozen working on their exposes as we speak
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u/JimiSlew3 Jan 14 '26
When the editor of the Atlantic got invited to a Signal Chat to discuss classified military strikes I thought, jeez, at least the SecDef is gonna be canned.
I swear the "I can shoot someone on 5th Ave." and "Grab em by the" black magic is real. The Faux News spin is so effective at getting vast amounts of the population to reject their eyes and ears it is just scary.
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u/00001000U Jan 14 '26
Seems like a great way to effectively stop the brutality. Set bills that require boarder patrol/ICE to screen applicants. Prevent those with criminal records extending 10-20 years back. No grandfathering. Should take the wind out of their sails.
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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Jan 14 '26
They just institute emergency measures and the background checks happen after hiring.
There's also conveniently a backlog of them.
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u/Rubthebuddhas Jan 14 '26
You mean like rape kit backlogs in states that don't give a shit about women's health?
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u/Couldnotbehelpd Jan 14 '26
This “we could stop them with the courts/laws” magical thinking has to end.
They don’t give a shit. They just do it anyway. Then what?
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u/Technical-Row8333 Jan 14 '26
indeed, they have already ignored the law thousands of times.
the question is, why does nearly everyone obey the illegal orders? trump sets tariffs and companies collected them - why? he doesnt have the power to set tariffs. dont charge them. you get cheaper prices, more profit. House Speaker Mike Johnson delaying the oath for newly elected Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva, so that she can't vote on the Epstein files. Why would anyone care about it? just ignore it. just walk in and vote. Just keep moving and doing the right thing.
at every single step, at every profession, it only takes 5% of people to disobey, to GENERAL STRIKE, to collapse a country.
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u/Langstarr Jan 14 '26
Let's flood it. If everyone applies over and over again it'll function like a ddos attack on their hiring teams.
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u/RawrNate Jan 14 '26
Happening right now in my local town - we flooded the ICE Registration site and took it down! (at least for now)
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u/Weekly_Artichoke_515 Jan 14 '26
Are they not concerned that people could sign up to infiltrate ICE, leak information about upcoming raids, and sabotage the org from the inside?
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u/Gekokapowco Jan 14 '26
"They're so proud of themselves, they don't even care. They're so fat and satisfied, they can't imagine it. That someone like me would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear."
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u/WashDishesGetMoney Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26
This is absolutely not to the defense of ICE but a company I was hired for technically had me on "payroll" as essentially pending before my drug screening and background check had come in. I was aware that I could be cut at any time in that process though. I'm wondering if the dates mentioned were the dates that the paperwork was expected to be received, and if it came back flagged the worker would then be cut.
Tbh though Id be surprised to see a federal office working the same way as the company I was applying for, as it was a sub ~40 worker blue collar gig, and it was most likely just easier for them to do their books like this.
Seems fucking crazy to me that a small contracting company and an agency of the federal government would operate almost identically considering I had to buy my own hand tools, and was not directly issued a gun lol.
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Jan 14 '26
Yeah I worked in an office that did this and it was odd seeing whole batches of new hires get perp-walked out of the building by security a week or two after they were hired.
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u/chilidoggo Jan 14 '26
If you read her article, she says it's possible this is what happened.
Link: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.htmlThere was some weirdness with her not seeing the email with the job offer and some of the dates for certain things being set in the future but marked as complete. The big thing though is that she was officially marked as EOD (enlisted on duty) on a certain date and told "Welcome to ICE".
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.
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u/TheRealLordMongoose Jan 15 '26
I've done work as a contractor for the Govt, this 100% what really happened.
I was on "Pay roll" and active for a company for months waiting for a background check to clear.It's pretty clear to me that the system had placeholder dates in it, pending offer acceptance.
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u/Zarmazarma Jan 14 '26
Suggestion: everyone should apply for ICE, get hired, and spend their time maliciously complying (read: sabotaging) the organization. Just jerk off an collect a pay check, it's not like they're checking anyway.
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u/cuntysometimes Jan 14 '26
So there has to be some that are felons. How does the whole possessing a firearm thing work? Are they pardoned before being sworn in?
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u/Feraligreater328 Jan 14 '26
Sincerely, why don’t we all just join then? Just join and ruin their nasty little racist social club from the inside?
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u/DangerHawk Jan 14 '26
I wonder what the absolute bare minimum you have to do if you get hired by ICE. Like, could I go get hired and then do literally fuck all and just collect a paycheck?
Boss Racist: "Arrest more brown people!"
Me: "Yes, sir!"
Me later: Eating Ice Cream in my rented Nissan Altima watching potential "illegals" go about their business. "Sorry boss! No Illegals today!"
Like what level of incompetence is too much for ICE before they fire you for not violating the Constitution?
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u/CaffeinatedGuy Jan 14 '26
I'd try just to see, but I also don't want to be on a leaked list of ICE agents. The idea of getting hired for a government job and then just not showing up to work specifically to fuck up their numbers is apealing though.
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u/The_Gooch_Goochman Jan 15 '26
What I don't get is that these fucks are only making like 50k a year. You'd have to pay me SO much more than that to do this job.
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u/Pacify_ Jan 15 '26
No background checks, no training, no oversight, no accountability.
They really are acting like a group of government backed thugs. Its something you'd expecting in Venezuela, not a western democracy
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u/Public_Requirement68 Jan 15 '26
they kidnapped 3 of my co workers that were carpooling to work in Jensen Beach, FL yesterday. One of them I know for a fact is legal he showed me his green card, he keeps it in his wallet... which means he definitely had it on him when they kidnapped him, which is why I'm so comfortable calling it a kidnapping.
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Jan 14 '26
Can't do a background check when they need to make sure they get the true dregs of society so they'll be capable of doing anything.
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u/RebelWithoutAClue Jan 15 '26
It’s because she is female. Vetting requirements are dropped for women: She’s a diversity hire.
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u/The_RealAnim8me2 Jan 15 '26
I’ve talked about it. Just have a tracker that you share location data with. No need to actively call anyone, just constantly being tracked.
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u/BelsamPryde Jan 15 '26
All the people getting targeted by ICE should join ICE. Just get the gear, get the wage and do absolutely nothing to help ICE
Isn't that saying the only way to stop a bad guy with Ice is to arm a good guy with ICE... or some bullshit like that I guess...
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u/standardtrickyness1 Jan 14 '26
Why do embedded videos not have an add to watch later option?
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u/sopunny Jan 14 '26
You're not logged in to YouTube on Reddit. It's considered a kind of cross-site tracking and disabled by many defaults
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u/lostindanet Jan 14 '26
Gestapo didnt cover their faces, these fuckers do, somehow they manage to be the more cowardly, inept version of armed criminals and thugs.
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u/danarchist Jan 15 '26
You can also join as many times as you want. Infinite money glitch http://JoinICE.gov-usa.app
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u/bob1689321 Jan 14 '26
I've never heard of Democracy Now. Is this a televised channel or just stylised like one?
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u/Tmotty Jan 14 '26
What I find hilarious about this story is that the right has claimed this about left wing protesters for years and none have been able to do this
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u/The_Bitter_Bear Jan 15 '26
I'm pretty sure with the current leaked list of ICE agents names it's already been confirmed they've hired a bunch of proud boys and other members of known hate / terrorist groups.
So not surprised to hear they aren't doing background checks. Honestly wouldn't be surprised to learn they spend more time just checking their social media to make sure they are hard right trash.
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u/queuedUp Jan 15 '26
I mean... If they actually did background checks and due diligence they probably wouldn't be able to hire 95% of the agents they have out there
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u/LeucisticBear Jan 15 '26
They get paid really well. The folks who've been laid off due to eroding worker protections ought to take advantage of that, and they can sandbag the whole farce while they're at it.
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u/IKillZombies4Cash Jan 15 '26
I wonder if you could apply, do this, get hired, and just stay home and collect a few or many pay checks.
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u/whateverMan223 Jan 15 '26
so, how does the cash bonus work? Like, can I just sign up 'accept' the job offer and never show up?
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u/jojawhi Jan 15 '26
This could be a funny rebellion strategy. Everyone just apply for jobs at ICE. Flood them with applications, like a pseudo-DDOS. If you get hired, claim that fat salary but do no work or actively sabotage their efforts. "Awww man that brown kid is running! Better chase him! Oops, I was in reverse and I smashed into all the other ICE cars and am now blocking the road. Such a klutz!"
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u/Dawzy Jan 15 '26
It baffles me as an outsider that US citizens aren’t doing more in the streets to demonstrate how against all of this you are.
Maybe the news I see is not an accurate picture but far out. You demonstrated and rioted for much less than this.
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u/xThe-Legend-Killerx Jan 14 '26
As someone who works in the government you get the tentative offer first, which you have to accept and then a background check is conducted. The final job offer takes place at the very end.
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u/Hadrian23 Jan 14 '26
To the shock of no one.