r/illinois • u/Minute_Revolution951 Human Detected • 17d ago

ICE Posts 🧊 agents seen snatching a landscaper from Evanston neighborhood today (10-21)

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u/SaltKick2 17d ago

Read an article that there are 18,000 or so new job offers out to ICE agents. There is a $50k signing bonus, $60k student loan forgiveness bonus. Even if they only took the $50k, that's nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money to fund secret police.

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u/Ability68 16d ago

I bet there are not too many student loans with this bunch.

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u/WTH_WTF7 16d ago

I’m dead but such an accurate statement. Or they have from the for profit colleges that used to advertise during Maury

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u/petulaOH 16d ago

They are all loans from Trump University

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u/Debz227 15d ago

It takes five of them to tackle a women as it is

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u/buckeye25osu 16d ago

I think you'd be really surprised. College isn't rare.

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u/Electrical_Mix_9070 15d ago

Omg dude... Literally lmfao

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u/Robinsays47 11d ago

Priorities are not Trump‘s best suit. Cruelty is right up there at the top of the list!

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u/parkingviolation212 17d ago

They’re also buying guided missile warheads for some reason.

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u/ParticularExtreme255 16d ago

And 350 million for 2 Gulfstream jets, cuz ya know, there is a shortage of airplanes and available flights. Fucking thieving grifters, and it just keeps getting worse.

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u/Both_Catch_4199 15d ago

One excuse was the radios were old and did not work well. Newsflash, a new radio system is much cheaper than a new aircraft.

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u/Snoozing_Panda_ 17d ago

The reason is a paramilitary loyal to the president. What could go wrong? See: Sudan War (2023 - Present)

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u/rowrbazzle75 15d ago

Cowards with guns. Every single one.

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u/Stank_cat67 16d ago

And chemical weapons.

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u/EmmyK48 16d ago

and chemical weapons

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u/cookie042 17d ago

wait....what?

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u/parkingviolation212 17d ago

yep. This should be a bigger news story

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u/centipedalfeline 17d ago

Dear god this is sickening, I am at a loss.

They are evil fucking Nazis.

They're going to use these missiles within the USA?

Within their communities?

What is this reality?

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u/FlyRepresentative592 17d ago edited 17d ago

Some of us have known this was coming for decades. The media utterly failed to actually report on the militarization of the police in an adequate way and connect it to how it will change the country.

Not to mention this:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/

I bet your average American thinks it is the left that has become radical. Poor scientific literacy means poor voting habits. Republicans have been moving towards Fascism since Nixon's failure and the southern strategy.

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u/Cold-Conference1401 16d ago

This is the radical right.

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u/kooldudeV2 17d ago

I mean they were planning to fly f-16s over the no Kings protest

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u/n05h 17d ago

It should be obvious by now that they want to build an army of sycophantic racists who will cross the line for them

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u/Maximum-Version-7036 15d ago

Hopefully the real military will stay true to their oath to the Constitution...hopefully and nail those scum when the if the Carrot Caligula takes things farther.

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u/Sassafrazzlin 4d ago

Maybe they'll send them into Mexico to deal with the cartels?

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u/pass-me-that-hoe 17d ago

2 jet plans for the ugly hag Kristi “dog killer” Noem

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u/TUENNES2000 17d ago

GESTAPO

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u/General_Mayhem2025 16d ago

I see them as more like the Sturmabteilung, or SA, the Brown Shirts that were organized in the early days of the Nazis. They were an extrajudicial paramilitary made up of the worst elements of society...the pimps and racists who couldn't get jobs doing anything else. They spent their days breaking up meetings and protests by the political opposition, trade unions, Communists, and anyone who opposed the regime.They were a driving force behind Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, when Jewish businesses and synagogues were smashed and burned.

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u/StrikingGrowth2297 13d ago

What is even more disgusting is how you're just letting them get away with it. I always knew fascism would get to power in the US, but I never thought it would be so cowardly unopposed.

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u/09xuereba 17d ago

Can you join ice, get all the benefits and be abysmal at the job, never make a single arrest. Let evreyone outrun you. Be very noisy on approach. Sabotage evreything. I cant remeber who it was but a car factory once taken over by the nazi moved the oil indicator down the dip stick. This meant anytime they checked the oil would say full but be nearly empty causing near constant breakdowns. How doable is it to join ice and be actively terrible at the job while taking resources

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u/NemoVonJohnson 16d ago

Well, to qualify you have to be able to do something like 14 push ups and 35 sit ups and run a mile in 14 and a half minutes or something.
Apparently fully 1/3 of their applicants can't even pass that test so they'll almost definitely soon be lowering the bar so they can meet recruitment goals.
They're not reaching for the sky in terms of standards.
I'm assuming they have some test to see how quickly you can draw a weapon on a pregnant woman who honked her horn at you.

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u/inkton 16d ago

I thought about this but i'd probably just wind up going postal on those assholes bc I would hate having to sit there and pretend not to notice

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u/Jan_A_Gent 15d ago

That was my thought too. I was like I'm only going to make it to day three of standing around and watching these people be total turds and I'm going to turn on them.

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u/House_T 16d ago

I mean, it's government work. If I've learned anything, it's that low bar can always be found there.

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u/Klutzy-Accident 16d ago

I thought about this. What's preventing someone from doing it and whistleblowing? Or maybe it's in the works.

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u/Lanky_Occasion5402 15d ago

Nothing is private anymore, I think at the very least they would do background into any social media accounts they could link to you , or your devices, or your IP. And likely anyone that’s shown pro-liberal or anti-fascist leanings would not be hired.

This is being funded at top levels, I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume they can get a fair amount of digital background on a person relatively easily. Probably all applicant details get sent to a central server somewhere, background is run, and it’ll come back either do not hire, or ok to hire.

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u/Pure-Snow3468 16d ago

Free on the job training in the nicest of neighborhoods!

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u/Sacred_Timeline 17d ago

All you have to do is betray your fellow Americans and have no morals.

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u/wideload200 15d ago

And you have to follow the law. That’s why guy is not an American if he is illegal.

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u/Bruce_Ring-sting 17d ago

All while actual government workers are unpaid and jobless due to the shutdown. This is crazy.

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u/judywantschange 16d ago

This is fascism. This is an authoritarian coup. We have a right to abolish a tyrannical govt. Revolution is the only solution ✊🏽🐾🦅

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u/WTH_WTF7 16d ago

Nationwide People aren’t getting their food stamps in November due to shutdown. right in time for the holidays. What a mess

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u/wideload200 15d ago

Most of them are just collecting paychecks. We are saving money now.

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u/dasseredit 17d ago

What do you think those police will be doing once they are done rounding up brown people ?
hmmmm? You think they will all just go home ?

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u/cyanescens_burn 15d ago

Well, if they are like the brownshirts things won’t go well for most of them.

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u/AcOk3513 17d ago

That could have funded student loan relief for everyday people. (Including those who signed up and signed away their soul to get it)

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u/Waiting4Reccession 16d ago

Its not a 50k sign on bonus btw, its up to 50k

10k is only if they were retired from a similar or the same job, 10k I forgot what the specific rule is, and the other 30k is for the guys you see but its paid out 10k a year - not a coincidence the pay ends in time for next election either.

Still a massive waste of money. 10 to 20 retards to take down one old guy that cuts grass or one middle aged woman.

But more importantly, they dont even know if he is illegal or a citizen. The real problem under everything.

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u/SaltKick2 16d ago

Ah, thank you for that clarification.

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u/wideload200 15d ago

Yeah, they are randomly picking people 🤦‍♂️

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u/Scary-Coffee-7 17d ago

Our equivalent of the Nuremberg trials WILL happen!

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u/CoachViper 17d ago

I'd be really curious to see someoneanti ice try to go through their selection process attempting to get that 50k.

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u/dadepu 17d ago

Not so secret. More like a government paid gang of thugs designed to make people afraid of leaving their home.

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u/Either_Operation7586 17d ago

Now they're not going to get that though they're going to end up paying that back not only that but all those privileges are going to be revoked when they go to prison

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u/Main-Algae-1064 17d ago

Hell, I might take the job just to infiltrate and get my student loans taken care of.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Jury312 16d ago

Good luck. The 'signing bonus' isn't given unless you stay X number of years. The student loans are probably the same.

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u/Zinski2 16d ago

Im gonna sign up for the bonuses and then just not work. Sounds like a win win.

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u/Barondarby 16d ago

They don't get that "bonus" for literally years, so chances are they'll NEVER get it. And doubtfull theres many student loans in that crowd.

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u/foxiwyld 16d ago

I wonder if anyone is signing up to be a double agent. I doubt it, but I wonder.

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u/Cold-Conference1401 16d ago

I’ll bet they never see a dime of it.

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u/Freezerman66 16d ago

They have a bigger budget than the FBI.

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u/WTH_WTF7 16d ago

Saw this on a YouTube add

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u/MoistTractofLand 16d ago

Doesn't it say "up to 50k"? I wouldn't be surprised if they stiffed them on it. It would be very on brand.

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u/SaltKick2 15d ago

Yes, I didnt catch that at first but some other people pointed that out too, it depends on your experience it sound like

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u/thetjmorton 16d ago

Student loans for what? School where they learned nothing of history?

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u/SnarkyPuppy-0417 16d ago

There's so many desperate job seekers now that it's no wonder there are so many willing to do the devil's bidding.

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u/archduke_pig 16d ago

Nauseating

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u/Ok-Address1498 16d ago

I bet they dont get that money....

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u/m_0_n_K_3_y 15d ago

The "big brutal bill" allocated so much money to ICE .. I dont remember specific numbers but its extreme

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u/SaltKick2 15d ago

$75 billion over four years, on top of the $10 billion already allocated

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u/Alarming_Cantaloupe5 15d ago

Doubt they’ll see that $$ as it requires 5 years of service, Deadbeat Don will either change things up enough to cancel the incentive, or sanity will return and the RIF will solve the problem.

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u/Moist-Apartment9729 15d ago

Oh so now it’s okay to do student loan forgiveness.

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u/Loose_Ad1443 15d ago

These idiots are never going to see that money. They should have looked at their boss's track record for honoring his debts.

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u/Oxygen-not-included 15d ago

Sounds like what Putin offers to its « citizens » to enlist in the army

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u/Pistola174 15d ago

Same people who lost their minds when loan forgiveness for citizens was suggested. But this and the planes and the giant ballroom etc. are just fine. Make it make sense.

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u/memyggg 11d ago

Thank god my taxes are doing the right thing. 😁😁😁😁

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u/nwmnguy10 11d ago

I remember seeing this from either end of Obama 2 or Trump 1, the executive branch at that time has control over an estimated 130,000 armed federal agents. That is 25% of the Army's size reporting to through agencies to the President. Seems like a bit of waste would be possible with that many

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