That's an insane amount of money they are offering for basically a police position.
ICE is hiring 10,000 agents | $120k+ salary | $45k signup bonus | federal benefits | overtime
- Thread starter SnugglesDaBear
- Start date
What new bonuses mean for current and future ICE recruits across immigration enforcement
Existing ICE agents, along with colleagues at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, will receive a $10,000 retention bonus every year for the next four years. New hires can expect signing bonuses modeled on those recently offered to Border Patrol officers. Additional performance pay and two‑year commitment incentives are also tucked into the bill, signaling DHS’s intent to keep talent from drifting to other agencies.
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
So is this kinda like... modern day Buffalo Soldiers?
blackestofpanthers
God forgives, you are forgiven.
You’re not even blackend thread lol
whole buncha hoppin bobs in this thread
What type of shyt is this?
Y’all letting a non black call people this type of shyt and use this type of rhetoric?
Ray D’Angelo Harris
Silky smooth
Pull Up the Roots
Breakfast for dinner.
"Defend your culture!" What could that be signaling?
DHS dangles, then abruptly backtracks, promise of $50,000 “bonus” for ICE agents who rush deportations
│
│
Commented on Thu Aug 7 21:41:27 2025 UTC
ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants
The short-lived effort underscored the mounting pressure on ICE to meet President Trump’s aggressive deportation targets
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/...ytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would 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.
Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program.
“PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.
Tricia McLaughlin, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said the program had not been authorized by agency leaders, adding that “no such policy is in effect or has ever been in effect.” The email canceling the program was sent shortly after The New York Times inquired about its existence.
But the short-lived effort underscored the mounting pressure on ICE to meet Mr. Trump’s aggressive deportation targets. The agency has offered signing bonuses of up to $50,000, promised to hire as many as 10,000 agents and initiated a vigorous recruiting push on social media.
The Trump administration is seeking to transform ICE, infusing it with an enthusiasm for the president’s project of carrying out deportations on an unprecedented scale. Under Mr. Trump’s signature domestic policy bill, which he signed into law early last month, ICE’s annual budget will grow from about $8 billion to roughly $28 billion, making it the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government.
Stephen Miller, one of Mr. Trump’s top advisers and the architect of his immigration policy, has promoted ICE’s hiring drive in ideological terms.
“Want to mass deport illegals from Los Angeles?” he wrote on social media last week. “JOIN.ICE.GOV today and get a 50K signing/retention bonus. Make your family proud and be the hero America needs.”
Last week, the agency said it had issued more than 1,000 tentative job offers.
The bonus program that ended on Tuesday almost as quickly as it began had been described as a 30-day pilot, according to documents reviewed by The Times. Under its terms, ICE would hand out $200 bonuses for each immigrant deported within seven days of being arrested and $100 for those deported within two weeks, according to an initial memo signed by Ms. Castano that was sent to the directors and deputy directors of ICE’s field offices across the country.
It was meant to motivate officers to reduce a backlog of people awaiting deportation, “reducing overall removal costs and decreasing strain” on the agency’s detention resources, the memo stated.
To “maximize” their bonuses, the memo instructed ICE agents to deport eligible immigrants through a fast-track process known as expedited removal, which allows immigrants without legal status to be deported without court proceedings. It also said that agents could offer detainees the option of leaving the country voluntarily.
Ms. Castano did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Efforts to speed the pace of deportations — like the bonus program — could endanger the due process rights of immigrants by encouraging ICE agents to cut corners, immigration experts and former government officials said.
ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants
The short-lived effort underscored the mounting pressure on ICE to meet President Trump’s aggressive deportation targets
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/...ytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would 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.
Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program.
“PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.
Tricia McLaughlin, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said the program had not been authorized by agency leaders, adding that “no such policy is in effect or has ever been in effect.” The email canceling the program was sent shortly after The New York Times inquired about its existence.
But the short-lived effort underscored the mounting pressure on ICE to meet Mr. Trump’s aggressive deportation targets. The agency has offered signing bonuses of up to $50,000, promised to hire as many as 10,000 agents and initiated a vigorous recruiting push on social media.
The Trump administration is seeking to transform ICE, infusing it with an enthusiasm for the president’s project of carrying out deportations on an unprecedented scale. Under Mr. Trump’s signature domestic policy bill, which he signed into law early last month, ICE’s annual budget will grow from about $8 billion to roughly $28 billion, making it the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government.
Stephen Miller, one of Mr. Trump’s top advisers and the architect of his immigration policy, has promoted ICE’s hiring drive in ideological terms.
“Want to mass deport illegals from Los Angeles?” he wrote on social media last week. “JOIN.ICE.GOV today and get a 50K signing/retention bonus. Make your family proud and be the hero America needs.”
Last week, the agency said it had issued more than 1,000 tentative job offers.
The bonus program that ended on Tuesday almost as quickly as it began had been described as a 30-day pilot, according to documents reviewed by The Times. Under its terms, ICE would hand out $200 bonuses for each immigrant deported within seven days of being arrested and $100 for those deported within two weeks, according to an initial memo signed by Ms. Castano that was sent to the directors and deputy directors of ICE’s field offices across the country.
It was meant to motivate officers to reduce a backlog of people awaiting deportation, “reducing overall removal costs and decreasing strain” on the agency’s detention resources, the memo stated.
To “maximize” their bonuses, the memo instructed ICE agents to deport eligible immigrants through a fast-track process known as expedited removal, which allows immigrants without legal status to be deported without court proceedings. It also said that agents could offer detainees the option of leaving the country voluntarily.
Ms. Castano did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Efforts to speed the pace of deportations — like the bonus program — could endanger the due process rights of immigrants by encouraging ICE agents to cut corners, immigration experts and former government officials said.
│
│
│ Commented on Thu Aug 7 21:41:42 2025 UTC
│
│ “That is so ungodly unethical,” said Scott Shuchart, a former senior homeland security official. “You can’t incentivize government agents to short circuit people’s procedural rights. Would you pay a bonus to judges for wrapping up trials faster?”
│
│ Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, said the incident appeared to reflect how quickly ICE was moving to meet Mr. Trump’s goals.
│ “They’re willing to try so many different things to see what sticks,” she said.
│
│ ICE has already sped up deportations, according to a New York Times analysis of ICE data obtained via the Deportation Data Project. The share of people booked into ICE detention who were deported within 14 days increased to 30 percent in May, from 21 percent in January, the analysis showed.
│
│ And the number of deportations by ICE reached a new high in July, averaging almost 1,300 daily removals in the two weeks ending July 26. Removals averaged fewer than 800 per day in the last year of the Biden administration.
│
│
│ “That is so ungodly unethical,” said Scott Shuchart, a former senior homeland security official. “You can’t incentivize government agents to short circuit people’s procedural rights. Would you pay a bonus to judges for wrapping up trials faster?”
│
│ Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, said the incident appeared to reflect how quickly ICE was moving to meet Mr. Trump’s goals.
│ “They’re willing to try so many different things to see what sticks,” she said.
│
│ ICE has already sped up deportations, according to a New York Times analysis of ICE data obtained via the Deportation Data Project. The share of people booked into ICE detention who were deported within 14 days increased to 30 percent in May, from 21 percent in January, the analysis showed.
│
│ And the number of deportations by ICE reached a new high in July, averaging almost 1,300 daily removals in the two weeks ending July 26. Removals averaged fewer than 800 per day in the last year of the Biden administration.
│
Amerikan Melanin
Veteran
I want to see my FBA brothers and sisters applying for these jobs.
So how many of you bytch ass mafukkas cheerleading ICE signed up?
Why tf would you say something so fukking stupid?
I know that washed up actor Dean Cain joined ICE, but he is going to drop out quietly because I bet anyone who is joining ICE will hate joining this Gestapo outfit. That $120k Salary is potential, and probably more like $70k. The Bonus as well is probably done in yearly installments. Overtime is mandatory as your probably married to the job, and yelled at to make Quotas.
Not to mention Local Police don't want to work these agents as well.
Not to mention Local Police don't want to work these agents as well.
You can make more money with less risk driving for Amazon. Your job will get cut next administration and you’ll be back dropping fries or moving boxes like you were doing before
