Trump is creating his own gov't-funded personal army of loyalist mercenaries

Politics & Elections
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Continuing the discussion from The current second Trump administration: a compendium of horrors:

If trump plans to continue as president indefinitely, he will need an army. He is now building one out of ICE, and aggressively recruiting from the population most likely to support him-- uneducated, broke, gun-loving men who believe they’ve been marginalized. TV commercials recruiting ICE agents are running, promising a $50,000 signing bonus, $60,000 student loan repayment.

The official ICE recruitment site.

“Choose your mission”

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Wait, student loan repayment? As in, college graduates? Sounds woke.

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As with a lot of other things, it is only bad when “they (the left)” do it.

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I doubt there are many college graduates in the demographic they’re targeting. Even high school is a reach.

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Well, as in people who attended college, and took out student loans. Whether they graduated is a different issue.

About 40% of people who have student loan debt didn’t earn a four-year degree, and those with debt but no degree are more than twice as likely to be in default on their loans (19% vs. 8%).

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Can he do that without an act of congress? Not that that would stop him.

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Congress is a rubber stamp body at this point.

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He’s been largely using executive orders to do things; they allow a president to modify or change how a law is being interpreted or implemented, but don’t allow him to create new things out of whole cloth (which would take an act of Congress).

ICE and ICE agents already exist. This seems to be about changes to their mission, and changes to their hiring program.