The Melanias seem to have a recruitment problem @ICEgov

 

Top headline:  Homeland Security

Bottom headline:  The American Prospect, 8/6/2025

David Dayen reports:

One Big Beautiful Bill Act more than tripled ICE’s budget, allowing for the hiring of up to 10,000 new agents. But experts immediately questioned how successful this effort would be. In Trump’s first term, a proposed hiring surge failed to come close to reaching its goals. There’s less margin for error this time, with White House officials making brutal demands to round up, detain, and deport millions of people living in the country. 

Since the law’s passage, ICE has advertised hiring terms that look increasingly desperate. It has offered signing bonuses as high as $50,000 as part of a program to lure back recent retirees. It has dangled student loan forgiveness and generous repayment plans for new recruits, while tightening student loan options for everyone else. It briefly offered cash bonuses to agents for rapid deportations before canceling the proposal.

Related reading:

The Trumpification of Kristi Noem.  New York Times, 3/20/2024

Related posts:

July 2025-

As far as the Melanias are concerned, primping take precedence over purpose.  (7/12)

Are the Melanias hinting that more AI and less staffing is the forecast for the National Weather Service?  (7/7)

January-June 2025

The Melanias do just what you'd expect the Melanias to do.  (6/30)

The Melanias leave behind a sketchy legacy in South Dakota.  (6/24)

The Melanias cant get their facts straight.  (6/23)

The Melanias are in the spotlight again!  (6/12)

Insecure Ice Barbie, aka Misti Kristi of the Melanias, is ruining the lives of hundreds of people with her reckless and performative leadership at Homeland Security.  (6/5)

In the case of Morales Reyes, the Melanias get this performance very wrong.  (6/3)

The Melanias get scathing reviews for their latest staged act.  (6/2)

Misti Kristi, now known as Ice Barbie, continues to conduct a master class in administrative incompetence and corruption. (5/30)

Not ready for her close-up:  Apparently, things are not going well for Kristi Noem at Homeland Security.  (5/1)

Too clueless and performative to grasp the enormity of the situation.  (3/29)

Feeling snookered yet, South Dakota?  Maybe your ex-governor, Melania wannabe Kristi Noem, will come to your rescue.  (3/15)

Kristi Noem's Melania makeover got her a job in the Trump administration.  (2/21)

2024

Dear Maggie Haberman:  Maybe Kristi Noem can go as Melania's alternate.  Who would know the difference?  Best, Retiring Guy,, (11/13)

Melania makeover helps South Dakota governor Kristi Noem snag Homeland Security gig. (11/13)

Kristi Noem releases her greatest hits album "Grovels".  (5/25)

Meet MAGA Makeover Queen Misti Kristi, America's latest laughingstock.  (5/25)

Welcome to Misti Kristi's Melania makeover.  (4/22)

2023

Meet Misti Kristi, aka South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Queen of the Trump sycophants.  (9/10)

Kristi Noem's Trump flip-flop.  (8/4/2023)

When it comes to choosing a running mate, appearance is everything to Donald Trump.  (8/2)

Meet Misti Kristi Noem, the Errors and No Facts Queen of South Dakota.  (6/27)

Most Americans agree that South Dakota governor Kristi Noem is wholly unqualified to be President.  (6/8)

Desperately seeking relevancy, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem ends up looking like a clown.  (5/28)

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem rolls out the CAFO welcome mat for headache-inducing, eye-burning manure pits!  Not to mention water pollution and fish kills.  (5/19)

There are at least two reasons why South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will never win the 2024 GOP nomination for president.   (5/18)

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem thinks her virulent anti-abortion stance is just what USA voters want.  (4/27)

Native Americans comprise almost 10% of South Dakota's population, but you'd never know it from these photos.  (2/5)

2022

GOP South Dakota governor Kristi Noem earns a grain of salt for this tweet.  (10/27)

Retiring Guy does the math for GOP South Dakota governor Kristi Noem.  (4/22)

Insecure Ice Barbie, aka Misti Kristi of the Melanias, is ruining the lives of hundreds of people with her reckless and performative leadership at Homeland Security.  (6/5)

In the case of Morales Reyes, the Melanias get this performance very wrong.  (6/3)

The Melanias get scathing reviews for their latest staged act.  (6/2)

Misti Kristi, now known as Ice Barbie, continues to conduct a master class in administrative incompetence and corruption. (5/30)

Not ready for her close-up:  Apparently, things are not going well for Kristi Noem at Homeland Security.  (5/1)

Too clueless and performative to grasp the enormity of the situation.  (3/29)

Feeling snookered yet, South Dakota?  Maybe your ex-governor, Melania wannabe Kristi Noem, will come to your rescue.  (3/15)

Kristi Noem's Melania makeover got her a job in the Trump administration.  (2/21)