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20. I wondered how many of the far right militants who belong to Oath Keepers, Proud Boys etc

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 10:01 AM

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are the ones who answered Trump's call to join ICE.

Inside the facility where ICE is training recruits to take on Trump's deportation goals
Nation Aug 22, 2025 9:37 AM EST

Ramping up hiring, training
ICE is getting $76.5 billion in new money from Congress to help it meet Trump's mass deportation goal. That's nearly 10 times the agency's current annual budget. Nearly $30 billion of that money is for new staff.

They're hiring across the agency, including investigators and lawyers, but the numbers they're hiring in those areas pale in comparison to how many deportation officers are coming on board. Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, was at the training demonstration Thursday. He said the agency currently has about 6,500 deportation officers and is aiming to hire 10,000 more by the end of the year.

With that hiring surge has come concerns that vetting or training of new recruits will be shortchanged. The Border Patrol went through a similar hiring surge in the early 2000s when hiring and training standards were changed; arrests for employee misconduct rose.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/inside-the-facility-where-ice-is-training-recruits-to-take-on-trumps-deportation-goals#:~:text=Ramping%20up%20hiring%2C%20training,the%20end%20of%20the%20year.

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The Oath Keepers are coming back [View all] BumRushDaShow Dec 30 OP

The Klan by any other name..... Trump's The Wizard Dec 30 #1

Thanks, Merrick orangecrush Dec 30 #2

Thank the felon for undoing what rule-of-law Merrick did. ancianita Dec 30 #22

And he did little... 2naSalit Dec 30 #32

I hear you ancianita Dec 30 #36

All that orangecrush Dec 30 #33

So you admit it was all that. ancianita Dec 30 #35

But wait ... orangecrush Dec 30 #37

"A full pardon erases conviction" Roy Rolling Dec 30 #3

I think you're right. ... marble falls Dec 30 #4

Nah - let him stay ignorant drmeow Dec 30 #29

That's why JustAnotherGen Dec 30 #17

I'll wager a lot of them are now getting paid by ICE to do what they wanted to do as Oath Keepers. tanyev Dec 30 #5

I would not want to take that wager! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Dec 30 #14

Yep. A lot of them. No doubt about it awesomerwb1 Dec 30 #18

Surgeon reimplants dangerous tumor that was recently removed from patient. LastDemocratInSC Dec 30 #6

Probably a lot of those thugs are ICE agents now nuxvomica Dec 30 #7

He felt sorry for 'em. 3Hotdogs Dec 30 #8

Those Republicans who insist that the J6 insurrectionists were "just a normal tourist visit" forgot one thing Rhiannon12866 Dec 31 #42

"...empowered by the lack of any substantial punishment resulting from the pardons..." J_William_Ryan Dec 30 #9

I think I read somewhere odins folly Dec 30 #10

Don't fuck them liberalgunwilltravel Dec 30 #12

Good liberalgunwilltravel Dec 30 #11

I would be very amused if someone leaks the client list after they get started again. OldBaldy1701E Dec 30 #15

Trump wants them active for the midterms! lark Dec 30 #13

Missing the forest through the trees. Hieronymus Phact Dec 30 #16

Jeezus, so rude. Discourages folks from posting Joinfortmill Dec 30 #23

"Alexander Lowie, Postdoctoral associate in Classical and Civic Education" drmeow Dec 30 #31

Stewart Rhodes founded Oath Keepers because Barack Obama was elected president. It's white supremacy not Patriotism. ChicagoTeamster Dec 30 #19

I wondered how many of the far right militants who belong to Oath Keepers, Proud Boys etc Fla Dem Dec 30 #20

This is literally a terrorist group SpankMe Dec 30 #21

ding. this . AllaN01Bear Dec 30 #25

oaf keepers ? hem AllaN01Bear Dec 30 #24

aka/dba... alterfurz Dec 31 #41

lol. AllaN01Bear Dec 31 #43

Aren't They All ICE Now? Deep State Witch Dec 30 #26

Why not? They're criming all forgiven by mob boss leader. Evolve Dammit Dec 30 #27

Got to ARREST him as soon as possible. (STATE CHARGES of course) bluestarone Dec 30 #28

These fucking psychopaths belong in prison and should be shunned from society. Initech Dec 30 #30

I knew that scum would return. BradBo Dec 30 #34

Oh no, not the Oaf Queefers! Blumancru Dec 30 #38

Great 👍🏽 live love laugh Dec 31 #39

Good, setting themselves up Deminpenn Dec 31 #40