Their backgrounds stand out. And not in a good way.
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 his integrity. A third job candidate once failed to graduate from a police academy, then lasted only three weeks in his only job as a police officer.
Their common bond: All were hired recently by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an unprecedented hiring spree — 12,000 new officers and special agents to double its force — after the agency received a $75 billion windfall from Congress to enact Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
The bankruptcy thing in the LEO world has to do with getting into situations where they could easily be compromised, not punishing them for bad financial decisions. The idea being it’s easier to bribe and control you. I’m not arguing for or against just that’s the reasoning.
Not that it matters. Notice ICE isn’t deporting wealthy immigrants just the poors. Same way with regular cops. I live where people often have $100k cars and you never see one of them pulled over. I’ve been cut off by more than one Beamer driving recklessly on the way into work and it’s never them.