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Insiders are saying the Department of Homeland Security's ICE hiring is in "chaos" and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller is reportedly angry over "lagging" deportation numbers.

A DHS source told The Daily Beast on Monday that President Donald Trump's push to "throw money around" while "panic at the top of government” has unfolded with Miller's disappointment over agents not reaching Trump's goal of 3,000 deportations per day.

“There are calls with Miller, where everyone is being screamed at,” the official told The Beast. “The targets he is setting for them are ridiculous, and it is a case of them just spending any money they can to increase the number of officers and deportations.”

Hiring within the agency has also presented other problems — agents joining before badges, system access or guns are available. Some say the money offer is luring veteran agents back and "insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs."

Former executive-level leaders from HSI and Enforcement and Removal Operations have returned to the agency, "some of them taking home north of $250,000 for office-based shiftwork, per multiple sources who spoke to the Beast," the outlet reports.

Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, has claimed that many of the new agents would be law enforcement returnees.

However, according to several insiders, several former senior employees have returned to the federal pay scale.

"With locality pay in high-cost areas—such as parts of Texas, California, and New York—adding 35 percent or more to a basic salary, agents can earn up to $137,000 in the majority of the country. This rises to $171,268 in more expensive parts of the country, such as San Jose and San Francisco," The Beast reports.

Sources say that overtime pay has also added to the high paychecks, in addition to "ongoing federal pensions worth around $8,000–$9,000 a month, and some rehires can land well in excess of a quarter of a million annually."

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 137 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I am imagining that Hitler "Downfall" clip, only in real life

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yup

Americans, now living under neo-Confederate occupation, completely shocked and watching Stephen Miller left to the mercy of the "useless idiots," he screamed at for not hurting enough people and making him rich fast enough.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But also, it's a slimy little worm man doing the shouting.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean Hitler or Miller?

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He needs to put on a pair of glasses, so his hands can tremble as he takes them off.

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 108 points 1 month ago (4 children)

some of them taking home north of $250,000 for office-based shiftwork

Sucking up resources and not actually shooting and teargassing innocent people? These are the least-awful people there!

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That would honestly be the best thing you could do, is get hired at one of these really expensive positions, then just do nothing. So you're draining resources from those that could do real damage, and directly taking the place from someone who could do worse.

[–] valek879@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I genuinely hope that there's a movement among vets to just this. What a good way to get something back from the gov for the trauma they put them through while protecting their fellow Americans. Just be a wrench in the gears of the immigrant crushing machine.

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[–] zd9@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

That's exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote the comment above. You want to grind the gears of fascism to a screeching, sputtering halt from within.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

the US is spending resources to harass those who produce them

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

Nonsense! If we can just get all the Wrong Kind of People out, and let only the Right Kind of People in, then we will finally achieve Trump's Economic Miracle the US will be Great Again and big grown men with tears in their eyes from all the winning

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[–] gex@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can we deport Miller into the center of the sun

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It would actually take less energy to send him out of the solar system. Huge delta v to slow down enough to get to the sun.

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[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a legal green card holder this just worries me, they need numbers and we are just an easy target, I didn’t do anything wrong but maybe they find an excuse anyway. It’s really scary.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can see how that's so stressful. I don't want to dox myself but I was also potentially a target of this admin in some other way (there are many groups who are being targeted for all kinds of reasons), and the constant uncertainty is a real killer.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Can we deport Stephen Miller back to the fiery pit from which he came?

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not his pit, it doesn't look enough like an anus

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Miller should be grateful that "lagging numbers" are the worst thing he's had to deal with, so far. We've been FAR more patient with ICE than they deserve.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ICE is being extra cruel because of this. The numbers Miller expect are outrageous, which is why ICE does everything they can to meet them. Grab a guy who was just walking out of his immigration hearing? Drag mothers from their cars while their kid is inside crying? Raid entire apartment blocks? That's exactly what happens when law enforcement has to meet a quota at any cost.

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Miller knows he's also in danger.

I personally know people who would take the first opportunity they had to make sure he could never cause as much damage as he has again.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The only good Nazi...

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm most looking forward to his trial.

He's going to cry like a little bitch.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm most looking forward to his trial.

I'm looking forward to his funeral.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 20 points 1 month ago

insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs.

Listen, we only care about efficiency and abuse of funds if it's some poor person getting healthcare or food! Otherwise it's totally legitimate usage of public funds!

Fucking hypocrites as usual....

[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Of course Pee-wee German is angry. He can't achieve orgasm without deportations. He's dealing with a serious case of tiny blue balls.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

Pee-wee German

*cackle*

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What’s funny is he’s getting his wish but still furious.

Most “deportations” happen (or happened) at the border. Since the new admin, border crossings dropped to zero. So the deportations are actually lower than last year despite Stephen’s shouting.

But I’m not happy until he’s not happy, so good news there. Bad news for all law-abiding residents, though.

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[–] catbum@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Stephen Miller is the biggest piece of shit I have ever seen. I want to personally punch him in the face more than anyone else on the planet.

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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wow. That is just. Wow. Ok... I guess the unhinged loony left strikes again.

How childish, and, and,... and just so uncalled for that you would stoop to such a level, as to imply that I... ::nervous cry/laugh::

I mean, you heard my wife say I was a sexual matador. We worked very hard to come up with that line. It took us all night to think of something that so perfectly conveyed brute strength and masculinity as theatre performed for an audience and the illusion of control.

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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Keep him screaming. Maybe his head will finally explode.

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

With numbers declining, he only has a half chub. He needs to be full mast to do his job.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine letting that squinty little turd scream at you instead of simply beating the fuck out of him.

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[–] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Stephen Miller has to know his day is up, Day of the Rope for you traitor bitches

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some say the money offer is luring veteran agents back and “insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs.”

My hope is that we win this passive aggressive, very poorly planned and executed war that's going exactly like you would expect it to go. Lots of harm to innocent people who don't deserve it, while the least deserving men hoard their profits and scream orders at their army to work harder and do the things they can't do on their own.

I hope due process survives, and the men who are shrieking these orders will be given a fair trial at home and abroad, despite refusing that right to others. I also hope they spend the rest of their miserable lives behind bars, and working off their debt to society in (unfortunately) more humane conditions than they deem fit for the innocent individuals they're kidnapping and detaining.

However, if we lose the war, at least we know there will be no due process for the men that helped destroy it. I think it's becoming pretty clear, that either way, we can probably look forward to the day their own army finally turns on Stephen Miller, and treats him to a good old fashioned Mussolini.*

The Metamorphoses of Mussolini’s Body

The vicissitudes suffered by his remains only served to confirm his prediction. The incoherencies and contradictions surrounding his death, which occurred on 28 April 1945, have subsequently fuelled an uninterrupted narrative which has become an integral part of his personal myth. The exact circumstances of his death, the ordeal of having his corpse publicly displayed in the piazzale Loreto in Milan, followed by the spiriting away of his remains from the city's Musocco cemetery by young neo-fascists, all helped facilitate his political resurrection ... Mussolini committed suicide using a cyanide capsule lodged in one of his teeth on 28 April 1945(*before he can swallow the cyanide capsule)

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We really need to embed a mole into the payroll department so that we have an accurate list of names and addresses once America’s Nuremberg trials kick off.

These Gestapo really do need a date with the hangman’s noose once this fascist regime gets overthrown.

After a fair trial, of course. With plenty of signposts so they see all the process they are getting that they have denied others.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 12 points 1 month ago

They recently tried to deport a Polish man who has been living in the US since the 1950s. According to them, they said he had an old deportation order due to a theft he committed in 1969 but since he was born in a Polish refugee camp in East Germany shortly after WW2 and neither East Germany (a politicial entity that no longer exists) nor Poland (which has changed significantly since 1969) wanted him, they just released him and didn't follow through on the order.

Btw he has been a law abiding citizen ever since that time. Longer than Stephen Miller has been alive.

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs.

Honestly, I feel like this is the best use of the ICE budget: financially supporting vets who don't deport anyone.

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Deport Stephen Miller to an abandoned mineshaft.

[–] MOARbid1@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He’s big and bad until someone punches him in the fucking mouth. Wimpy lil bitch.

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

How funny would it be if the next administration just sent troops around the U.S. to arrest people with illegal mods on their trucks and tires that stick out from the wheel wells.

I'm sure it would be easy to cherry pick rapists, drunk drivers, assault/battery, murders and what not out of any group. Poof, it's a matter of national security, Executive order

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

He’s always screaming; it’s not particularly newsworthy, nor is it anything that anyone should care about at this point. We should all stop paying attention to him and let him scream his head off into a void.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Corporate metrics applied to ruining lives.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 month ago

True evil ghoul of thing. This man needs to be arrested by the next admin.

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