Thousands Of People Are Thinking The Same Thing After The Trump Administration Said That Teenagers Are Now Eligible To Be ICE Agents
I assume we’re all just a little too familiar with Kristi Noem by this point.
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She’s the US Homeland Security Secretary under President Donald Trump, and has been committed to helping him carry out his mass deportation goals during his second term.
Noem has celebrated the openings of new immigration detention facilities like “Alligator Alcatraz” and the “Speedway Slammer” and shown up to cosplay as an ICE agent conducting raids in Los Angeles.
Noem recently hopped on Fox News to promote recruitment for ICE, and at the end, she shared that the age requirements to become an agent were changing.
“We’ve removed any of the age barriers. We no longer have a cap on how old you can be, or you can continue at age 18,” she told Lawrence B. Jones on a segment of Fox & Friends. “Sign up for ICE and join us and be a part of it. We’ll get you trained and ready to be equipped to go out on the streets and help protect families.”
Newsweek wrote an article about Noem’s announcement, also reporting that “To lure candidates, ICE is offering incentives including signing bonuses of up to $50,000, student loan forgiveness, enhanced retirement benefits and extensive overtime opportunities.” The outlet later posted the story to the r/politics subreddit, where thousands of people reacted and commented.
People had some choice words, including dozens of comparisons to the youth wing of the Nazi party, which sought to indoctrinate young Germans. Here’s what some commenters had to say:
1.“Ahh the restart of Hitler Youth.”
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2.“Yeah, give an 18-year-old a gun and a badge. Nothing will possibly go wrong. These baby agents are going to end up shooting themselves or other officers in a panic.”
3.“Already here. ICE is his SS.”
4.“Wow, $50,000 signing bonus for hired thugs, but $0 for teachers and first responders. Priorities.”
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5.“Does it come with knives, scout uniforms with lederhosen, and a bright red armband?”
6.“Straight from Gestapo to Trumpler Youth. Textbook stuff.”
7.“Trump’s version of Hitler’s Youth and Brownshirts. ‘Trump’s Youth’ has a terrible ring to it. Also, a teen should not be given that type of power. Allow them to walk around holding loaded rifles and allow them to kidnap people based on skin color? FFS, Trump, no one should be allowed to do that.”
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8.“I mean, most of the existing agents behave like teenagers, so this makes sense.”
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9.“Some kid is going to get shot or seriously hurt from this.”
10.“Oh, so student loan forgiveness is OK as long as you’re a Nazi. Got it.”
11.“Dictators love kids. Witness when Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge would take skilled workers, have them train a kid to do the job, then execute the worker. Children are much more malleable.”
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12.“Thanks, protest voters and MAGA. Great job causing this.”
13.“Sign up to be a huge POS! Fuck that.”
14.“He’s practically begging people to join. Huge signing bonus. Student loan forgiveness. Now, child labor is needed because so many people don’t want to participate in his Nazi bullshit. He saw the Gen Z white voting demographic and lowered the age.”
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15.“Brainwash the 18-year-old youth. Old military trick.”
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16.“Nazi youth coming your way.”
17.“Every day, another dumbass thing. If you don’t trust teens to drink, should you trust them to be making armed arrests?”
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18.“Incel Collection Establishment.”
19.“Oh, this shouldn’t cause any problems whatsoever. Kyle Rittenhouses running around everywhere. Yup. Teenage boys most certainly have the mental acumen for it. I hate this timeline…”
20.And finally, “Ah, yes. The reintroduction of the Hitler Youth. It was only a matter of time.”
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