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$75 billion could have helped with food for hungry children, or health care for frightened seniors.

Instead, we're here now.

Now we’re getting the first reports from the front lines of ICE’s recruiting and hiring drive — and it’s going precisely as poorly as predicted. As CNN quoted an administration official last week, “It’s a shit show.”

The Department of Homeland Security posted nakedly Christian white nationalist imagery, videos and memes more in line with an invading army than a civilian law enforcement agency — including a hearty endorsement of one of the most widely recognized images of white settler “Manifest Destiny” of all time and slogans that, for all intents and purposes, come from Neo-Nazis.

How ICE is trained even when they’re deployed is its own scandal: An ICE officer managed to shoot a US marshal last week when the ICE officer accidentally fired his service weapon, perhaps while using it to break a car window (not exactly standard safe procedure!) or while trying to grab a suspect.

Early in the summer, I wrote about the experience and history of the hiring surge post-9/11 by Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol. I actually spent five years covering the wave of crime and corruption that overwhelmed CBP afterward — a tidal wave so huge that from 2005 to 2012, there were a total of 2,170 misconduct arrests of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents — meaning that one CBP officer or agent was arrested every single day for seven years — and that even by 2017, a decade after the hiring surge, that pace of arrest had only slowed to one CBP agent or officer arrested every 36 hours.

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Does anyone seriously believe there will be any similar kind of enforcement against Stephen Miller's beloved goons?

Early in the summer, I wrote about the experience and history of the hiring surge post-9/11 by Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol. I actually spent five years covering the wave of crime and corruption that overwhelmed CBP afterward — a tidal wave so huge that from 2005 to 2012, there were a total of 2,170 misconduct arrests of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents — meaning that one CBP officer or agent was arrested every single day for seven years — and that even by 2017, a decade after the hiring surge, that pace of arrest had only slowed to one CBP agent or officer arrested every 36 hours.

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