The agency responsible for carrying out Donald Trumpās mass deportations is launching a recruiting campaign to entice ābrave and heroic Americansā to serve as new deportation officers, lawyers and investigators as the government gears up for a major expansion of immigration enforcement thanks to a recent infusion of money from Congress. The icing on the cake: a promise of up to $50,000 in signing bonuses.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement campaign, which rolled out late Tuesday, recalls recruiting posters from the second world war with images of Uncle Sam and the words āAMERICA NEEDS YOU.ā There also are photos of the US president and top homeland security officials with the words āDEFEND THE HOMELANDā across the images.
In addition to appealing to prospective applicantsā patriotic fervor, homeland security is making a pocketbook pitch. The agency is promising up to $50,000 in signing bonuses, the potential for lots of overtime for deportation officers and other benefits such as loan repayment or forgiveness options.
Oh good more āheroesā to āsave usā from a bunch of poor people busting their asses to do jobs the rest of us cannot afford to do.
Iām going to keep calling them gestapo. Thereās nothing patriotic about them.