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Pentagon asks civilian employees to join ‘volunteer force’ to aid Ice deportations (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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The Pentagon is recruiting civilian employees to join Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and asking staff to sign up for deployments to immigration enforcement facilities across the United States.

The defense department has posted a job listing requesting volunteers for civilian federal employees apply to join a “volunteer force” supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operations. On Wednesday, the department reportedly emailed civilian employees asking them to take up this opportunity.

“The Secretary of Defense has authorized DoD civilian employees to participate in details to the Department of Homeland Security to contribute to its operations along the Southern Border and its internal immigration enforcement activities,” reads the email, obtained by 404Media. Roughly 950,000 civilian employees work for the Pentagon.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I'm sure they'll bring the same level of professionalism that we've come to expect of ICE.

How are masked men kidnapping people not being SHOT?! It's my pet theory that they're operating where guns aren't so prevalent. After all, you don't see them pulling this shit in the South.

OTOH, I was wrong about this whole thing. I predicted years ago the the Red Shirts would start with community members banding together to root out illegals. Nope! Even slicker, the administration co-opted a federal agency to give it a veneer of legitimacy. NOW the civilians come into play.