Patchy employment records, bankruptcies and allegations of wrongdoing blemish the records of several new recruits
Rapid recruitment and expansion by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has led to an influx of employees with questionable qualifications, an investigation has found.
The track records of some of the new recruits amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda stand out – and not in a good way.
They include characteristics such as two bankruptcies and six law enforcement jobs in three years, an allegation of lying in a police report to justify a felony charge against an innocent woman – an incident that led to a $75,000 settlement and criticism of the recruit’s integrity – and a job candidate who once failed to graduate from a police academy, then lasted only three weeks in his only job as a police officer.
The common bond is that all were hired recently by ICE during an unprecedented hiring spree – 12,000 new officers and special agents to double its force – after the agency received a $75bn windfall from Congress to enact Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.
