How Journalist Laura Jedeed Got Herself Hired By ICE with No Background Check

[Uncle Joe]

"They didn't ask very many questions." Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despite never signing any paperwork, not having completed a background check, likely failing a drug test, and publicly sharing her opposition to the Trump administration and its anti-immigrant crackdown. "It seems like the answer to the question, 'Who are they hiring?' is: They don't know."

[underpants]

1. Yikes. Just warm bodies to grab bodies.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Giving the unstable, or criminal elements arms and immunity is their tactic to sow chaos.

[Eugene]

2. Quotas are quotas. Any warm body will do.

This would be farce if the likely consequences weren't so dire.