Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE

This blogger spent 2 days at a Department of Homeland Security job fair at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia.

There was the young, taciturn southerner managing a batting cage near New Orleans, and the pimply youth from Kentucky, churning out Yahoo Finance content for twenty dollars an hour. Both said they were tired and bored. The latter said his father had been in ICE, but he “didn’t really know what he did.”

I spoke to a gregarious New York police officer who was fed up with patrolling Times Square and all “the savages” there. Another applicant said he was sick of installing office furniture in properties subleased by the United States Marines.

A blind man I spoke to, who was hoping to find a data-centric position with ICE, said he was sick of his current job collecting child support payments from delinquent parents. At present, he said, his “hands were tied” because the law in his state forbade him from sending in sheriffs to collect money from deadbeat dads. In a lilting, basso voice, he told me that “in college, I wrote several papers about the harms of illegals in America.”

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