ICE is paying retirees big bucks to come back and terrorize immigrants [View all]

Now that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget is larger than those for most of the world’s militaries, they’ve got plenty of money sloshing around to hire 10,000 new agents, which will surely allow them to ratchet up arrests of harmless day laborers at Home Depot. But how to find those 10,000 new hires? ICE seems to be starting by begging retirees to come back.

A recruitment page on ICE’s website features the obligatory scowling Uncle Sam. Retired ICE agents who return are eligible for up to $50,000 in bonuses and can still receive their basic federal retirement annuity. In other words, for these rehires, taxpayers will be paying:

Their base salary, which starts at $105,000 for ICE criminal investigators and nearly $89,000 for deportation officers.

Federal health care benefits.
Base federal retirement annuity.
A stratospheric hiring bonus of up to $50,000.

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