A record number of employees are leaving ICE, even as the agency hires thousands of workers to expand enforcement operations. Ignacio Calderon, a USA TODAY data reporter, breaks down what federal workforce records reveal about the surge in departures,
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0:00 Investigation into ICE churn
1:15 Turnover rates and reasons
2:33 Recruitment and retention
3:53 Screening and training issues
5:25 Ongoing agency concerns
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You’d have to have absolutely zero integrity to work for ICE at this point. If I worked for them there would be a big black mark in the parking lot where my car was parked too.
They can claim mental health disability
They think it will save them From the trials.
Facing lawsuits and jail is a great motivator to leave any place.
Where there’s SMOKE, there’s FIRE….time to depart ways . Taco Bell is HIRING .
After a lengthy investigation it has been found out that some of these agents have current warrants and they are fugives from justice while some have been found to be in this country illegally themselves and some have warrants in other countries!! While a few have been working with drug cartels and street gangs and some have been secretly arrested for child porn and child sex trafficking!!
JAIL cells are waiting