The agency responsible for carrying out Donald Trump’s mass deportations is launching a recruiting campaign to entice “brave and heroic Americans” to serve as new deportation officers, lawyers and investigators as the government gears up for a major expansion of immigration enforcement thanks to a recent infusion of money from Congress. The icing on the cake: a promise of up to $50,000 in signing bonuses.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement campaign, which rolled out late Tuesday, recalls recruiting posters from the second world war with images of Uncle Sam and the words “AMERICA NEEDS YOU.” There also are photos of the US president and top homeland security officials with the words “DEFEND THE HOMELAND” across the images.

In addition to appealing to prospective applicants’ patriotic fervor, homeland security is making a pocketbook pitch. The agency is promising up to $50,000 in signing bonuses, the potential for lots of overtime for deportation officers and other benefits such as loan repayment or forgiveness options.

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    You too can find yourself in prison once the current regime falls! Remember to think up an alabi for what you spent the 20’s doing, otherwise you will be shamed for the rest of your life.

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    If the US government would have paid for teachers what they pay for their American GeStaPo, you probably would not have that Nazi problem in the US.

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    We apparently have all kinds of money to dump into domestic terrorism but we ain’t got shit when it comes to healthcare, education, climate action, infrastructure, emergency planning/prevention…

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    I have been out of work for two years. There’s a ton of us. This is a plot to get guys like me to jump at the money and sell our souls.

    I’ll keep my soul. I need that more than ever with that illegitimate administration. They can stuff their jobs.

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      Never count out sabotage. Especially if they’re stupid and the 50k is awarded at signing or with the e first check.

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          Yes usually. But these people are both stupid and corrupt. Someone should make sure. For science… And the ammusment of others.

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      The Nazi party of Germany did it. Even alleviated men of their child support responsibilities.

      These guys are making as much or more than I do. They got a giant ass budget for nothing that currently exists. They know what they are doing. They’re probably hoping to recruit a lot of former military.

      After this, the Nazi party pretty much mandated that professional positions required party membership. Plenty of professors, for instance, refused, and received cuts in pay and demotions. I like to believe those policies indirectly helped the Allies win by slowing the various weapon programs.

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    spend 4 years in college, get certified, start teaching children, get yelled at by parents and principals for giving a student who was on their phone for the whole class a C, make $45,000/year

    play apex legends in the basement shouting racial slurs and eating cheetos for 2 years, get a $50,000 signing bonus on top of a $80,000 salary

    Guess which one is more likely to be shot and killed at their job?

    spoiler

    It’s not the one who has a gun

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    “Brave and heroic”

    Is that why they show up in packs wearing masks to kidnap children?

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    Oh good more “heroes” to “save us” from a bunch of poor people busting their asses to do jobs the rest of us cannot afford to do.

    I’m going to keep calling them gestapo. There’s nothing patriotic about them.

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    It’s tempting to join and be sand in the gears, but the job is so immoral that I’d have to be a big ass rock in the gears. Sand isn’t immediately enough.

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      Wrong. Join. Refuse to do anything but stall getting fired for as long as possible. You get more money. Government gets delayed from hiring a Nazi replacement for you. Bonus points for sabotage like tipping people off about planned raids.

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        Yeah that probably good way of having you disappear too. Sounds good to try sabotage from within, but unless we a legit government back resistance, then all your going to do is get yourself killed, disappeared, or will be put on the Numberg trials like the rest.

        I at least hope we have a trail, and we hang these fuckers.

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          Nuremberg was a failure and a sham, nazis en masse were excused and given positions of power in the exact same positions they held as nazis. 2 million Germans directly contributed to the holocaust and nine people were executed at Nuremberg. I pray to fucking god that isnt how this ends.