During a multi-agency meeting earlier this week, Miller voiced frustration that Immigration and Customs Enforcement wasn’t bringing in deportation officers fast enough, CNN reported Thursday. Meanwhile, multiple sources told CNN that ICE has struggled to process the sudden surge of applicants after the agency dangled a $50,000 signing bonus in front of their noses, in the hopes of enticing Americans to join the legion of law enforcement officials ripping families apart.
“It’s a shit show,” an administration official told CNN.
Sources told NBC News Wednesday that multiple new recruits had arrived for training without being properly vetted, and just under 10 were turned away due to disqualifying criminal backgrounds or failed drug testing. At ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, staff discovered one recruit had previously been involved in a domestic violence incident, and was once charged with strong-arm robbery and battery. DHS officials told NBC News that other recruits in the six-week training course had not submitted their fingerprints for background checks, which is required by ICE.
CNN reported that in one case, ICE gave a conditional offer to a Drug Enforcement Administration informant, which was only caught by the DEA. In another case, an individual had a pending gun charge.
These mistakes come as the Trump administration has attempted to speed up the onboarding process, which used to take months, into a partially remote process that only takes 47 days, CNN reported.
Scott Shuchart, former head of policy at ICE during the Biden administration, suggested that the Trump administration had gone too far in attempting to streamline the process.“They’re trying to do something borderline impossible and they’re doing it too fast,” he told CNN.
Unfortunately, I think they have plenty volunteers. Luckily, as per usual this administration has managed to throw a wrench into their own evil plans by trying to be as efficient as possible without much of a grasp on fine details.
They cut what they see as unnecessary red tape that makes things "slow and inefficient," because they're dumb enough to believe "run the government like a business," is as simple as just maximizing profits and minimizing time and overhead.
It's like somebody reading a recipe, then having the brilliant idea that the bureaucratic chefs who came up with the recipe were just padding it with a lot of unnecessary extra steps and ingredients.
They cut out multiple necessary steps and ingredients. Then, to save time, instead of baking at 300 degrees for 15 minutes, they figure they can just crank up the oven as high as it will go and bake it for 5 minutes.
Stephen Miller is now fuming because he's too much of a narcissist to acknowledge his "efficient" recipe just wasted more time and money by creating a final product of inedible goo that's somehow burnt in some spots and dangerously undercooked in others.
Instead of stepping back or listening to anyone who might actually know what they're doing, Chef Stephen is demanding his disgusting masterpiece be sent out to America as is, even though it will undoubtedly end up giving us all food poisoning. Once that happens he'll blame the staff in the kitchen who were trying to warn him the entire time.