Meet the New ICE

No Training. No Oversight. No Problem. (COLUMN)

WASHINGTON — The United States government is building something right now. Quietly. Deliberately. In the dullest language possible. It's a job posting—one of thousands—but this one hums with menace if you know how to read between the bureaucratic lines.

ICE is hiring deportation officers again. But they’re not building a modern force. They’re not staffing up with legal experts or community-trained responders or trauma-informed officers fluent in Dari and Spanish. No. They’re resurrecting ghosts. You don’t need to know anything about immigration. You just need to have once worn a badge.