Critics have warned that lowered hiring standards and slashed training times will lead to an explosion of abuses by immigration officers

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    Trump will start poaching municipal and state police to emigrate to become ICE officers via over-paid salary and benefits.

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      The one thing, though, is that police unions are damn strong and you’ll be drawing a nice pension while you beat your geriatric spouse through retirement. The ICE ramp-up was slapped together without any thought past a dumb cash grab. I doubt benefits, if there are any, will be honored.

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        the benefit is that you will get investigated for crimes after this admin is over

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          Haha, no way. It’ll be “time to heal from division” and they’ll all just go back to their normal lives, just like the Nazis last time. Perhaps one or two sacrificial examples will be prosecuted for show.

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        I don’t know … ICE has a budget bigger than the Russian military. ICE’s budget is bigger than all other US local, state, and federal law enforcement combined. So I expect Trump to spend that on turning cops to ICE.

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      They already are. And there’s a cop shortage. And if they go back to being cops and then do police brutality the fact that they were in ICE before will immediately make it that much worse for them