ICE Lowers Recruitment Criteria
The highest level of education needed to be an entry level ICE agent is grade 8.
Woodburn, Oregon - The Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE, has announced that they are lowering their standards of recruitment over the next couple of years.
Talking to the media during an ICE raid in the Little Mexico district of Woodburn on Tuesday, Oregon, Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons, said due to the increase in detainments, detentions, and deportations, ICE has has lowered their criteria to become an ICE agent.
“There’s a lot of illegals in the country. President Trump has given me a virtual blank cheque to hire as many people as I can to take care of this immigration problem we have in this country. I intend to serve my President and clean up this country by getting rid of criminal illegals.”
- Todd Lyons, Director of ICE
The typical requirements to be considered for the role of a ICE field agent include, but are not limited to the following:
US citizen
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as criminal justice, law enforcement, etc.
Meet physical and mental health standards.
Undergo a thorough background check.
Under the new criteria, these minimum standards will be significantly lowered.
While candidates must still be US citizens, they no longer need a Bachelor’s degree. In fact, new recruits will no longer require a high school diploma. As long as they passed the 8th grade, they will be deemed skilled and competent enough to enforce US immigration laws.
“We don’t want too many people questioning the system or inquiring as to whether or not what we’re doing is legal or constitutional,” said one ICE executive who did not want to be identified.”
He went on to say that in the past, they have had issues with higher educated recruits who did not wish to participate in raids against those who’s legal status in the country was not disputed.
“We need these guys to stop wasting time and resources reading files and sifting through papers and documents to figure out of they have the right guy or not. It get’s in the way of efficiency. We need them to capture, detain, and deport.”
- Anonymous ICE executive
Additional requirements that will be lowered are mental and physical health standards, as well as background checks. Recruits no longer have to be mentally stable or be required to make rational decisions while in the field.
A recent video surfaced which appeared to show a brutish, uneducated ICE agent acting in an irrational, uncivilized fashion, has led many to believe that mental acuity dropped significantly in ICE departments all over the country.
Those that have been convicted of crimes such as criminal harassment, violent assaults, stalking, hate crimes, and domestic assault, also have the opportunity to become ICE agents.