We can add ICE agents to that list.
The Department of Homeland Security is telling probationary employees to move to the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or they are fired.
In related news, Kristi "ICE Barbie" Noem has announced that ICE is dropping its maximum age requirement to join, so all of you nonagenarian fascists can get a job there.
A number of employees with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were informed via email late on Tuesday that they have been reassigned, effective immediately, to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The workers had seven days to accept the reassignment, under threat of being removed from the civil service.
According to sources familiar with the matter, those reassigned were probationary employees with less than one year at FEMA, who because of presumed weaker civil service protections were fired early in the Trump administration but reinstated after a court order. Like at many federal agencies, these employees had been on paid administrative leave for months, among the over 100,000 men and women across the federal government who have been collecting a salary yet doing no work.
But now, these probationary FEMA employees on leave are apparently being shifted as a stopgap maneuver to bolster the ranks of ICE, which received tens of billions of dollars in the GOP mega-bill but faces the daunting task of hiring thousands of new agents to an unpopular agency with plummeting morale.
I actually find this news heartening.
When Stephen Miller began his sadistic reign of terror, I assumed that bullies would be lining up around the block to get in on the mayhem.
It appears that it's too much even for them.
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