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orleans

(36,685 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 11:11 PM 7 hrs ago

she didn't pass drug test, or submit background check, i.d. info, domestic violence affidavit & ICE OFFERED HER A JOB!



You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We’re all finding out.

BY LAURA JEDEED Jan 13, 20265:40 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html

The plan was never to become an ICE agent.

The plan, when I went to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Career Expo in Texas last August, was to learn what it was like to apply to be an ICE agent. Who wouldn’t be curious? The event promised on-the-spot hiring for would-be deportation officers: Walk in unemployed, walk out with a sweet $50k signing bonus, a retirement account, and a license to brutalize the country’s most vulnerable residents without consequence—all while wrapped in the warm glow of patriotism.

At first glance, my résumé has enough to tantalize a recruiter for America’s Gestapo-in-waiting: I enlisted in the Army straight out of high school and deployed to Afghanistan twice with the 82nd Airborne Division. After I got out, I spent a few years doing civilian analyst work. With a carefully arranged, skills-based résumé—one which omitted my current occupation—I figured I could maybe get through an initial interview.

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BREAKING: A journalist just exposed ICE’s non-existent vetting process by signing up and getting a job offer despite failing the drug test and NO background check!

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“There’s only one ‘Laura Jedeed’ with an internet presence, and it takes about five seconds of Googling to figure out how I feel about ICE, the Trump administration, and the country’s general right-wing project. Keep going for long enough and you might even find my dossier on AntifaWatch, a right-wing website that lists alleged members of the supposed domestic terror organization. I am, to put it mildly, a less-than-ideal recruit,” wrote an astonished Jedeed.

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“I moused over the exclamation mark next to ‘Onboarding’ and a helpful pop-up appeared. ‘Your EOD has occurred. Welcome to ICE!’”

“By all appearances, I was a deportation officer. Without a single signature on agency paperwork, ICE had officially hired me.”

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she didn't pass drug test, or submit background check, i.d. info, domestic violence affidavit & ICE OFFERED HER A JOB! (Original Post) orleans 7 hrs ago OP
Won't be hard to do checks on the leaked names that just came out SSJVegeta 6 hrs ago #1

SSJVegeta

(2,360 posts)
1. Won't be hard to do checks on the leaked names that just came out
Wed Jan 14, 2026, 12:26 AM
6 hrs ago

How many of those people have a record?

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