ICE offers big bucks — but California cops prove tough to poach

In the pressure of rapid expansion as possible, US immigration and customs protection are recruited in an aggressive way with the experience of slapping clamps on suspects: Sheriff MPs, State Units and Local Police.

The agency was ventilated during an NFL game with an NFL game during an NFL game.

August recruitment ad, the Los Angeles silhouette on the sunset panorama on the sunset panorama, “they walk dangerously illegally, the police have to stand up as long as they have to stand up,” he warned. “Join the ice and help us catch the worst of the worst.”

In order to achieve the recruitment target, the Trump administration offers heavy signature bonuses to the civil servants to be deported, forgiveness of student loans and six -digit salary.

ICE also expanded the potential applicants’ pool by reducing age requirements, eliminating Spanish language qualification requirements and training for new recruitment with law enforcement experience.

Along the way, the agency tried to maintain sincere relations with the local department leaders, a delicate line to kidnap its officers.

Ice Spokesman Tim Oberle, “a group of other agencies, we do not try to rain,” he said. “If you see opportunities to move up, make more money to look at your family, of course you will want it.”

However, despite the new compensation packages of Cömert, experts, agents needed the most in some places ICE, ICE is still short, he said.

“Payment in California,” Jason Litchney, a recruitment company, said, “Payment in California,” Jason Litchney said. “Some of these Bay Area agencies are $ 200,000 a year without overtime.”

For a Los Angeles Police Department officer, even the base fee is more than $ 90,000. San Francisco is close to $ 120,000. While ICE pays much more than other states in California, many local policemen alone are likely to encourage the dress blue to change the dress blue and neck hikers.

“If you were a state police officer who has the desire to be a federal agent, I don’t know if you want to join ICE,” John Sandweg went to ICE under President Obama.

Police organizations throughout the country have fought to hire and hold qualified officers for years. LAPD has graduated from only 31 soldiers in the last 10 academy class, which is about half of the number of the city’s power to keep up with the 9,500 officer.

“This is an enormous issue for us, Brian said Brian Marvel, President of Peace Officials Research Assn. California, a professional advocacy organization.

Ice has not been able to meet its personnel targets for a long time. A year ago, the agency’s enforcement and lifting operations – special deportation power – had more than 2021 6,050 officers.

As of September 16, the Ministry of Homeland Security said that he had sent more than 18,000 temporary job proposals after a summer recruitment campaign that applied more than 150,000.

The police did not specify how many applications were working.

Last month at an ICE career fair in Texas, the agency rejected from time to time to be a badge or an honorable discharged from the army.

At the event, an ICE official said, “There are many people who are currently currently trying to start work and we have given priority,” he said.

However, the search for the spirit of rank and file officers created anger and anger among the best policemen throughout the country.

David J. Bier, an immigrant expert at the Cato Institute, said, “Agencies short staff,” he said. “They complain about constantly recruitment and retention and to protect the labor force – and ice comes here – they are trying to remove these officers.”

Law enforcement experts, except for California, especially in low -income states, many young civil servants have taken home as much as public school teachers, and new recruitment has had the opportunity to make the ship even more attractive for a federal concert.

Some are afraid that the ice recruitment craze will attract problematic candidates.

Guardian Alliance Technologies President Justin Biedinger, “the most terrible part that keeps me at night, you hear that agencies said that we have dropped the standards because we can not hire,” he said.– For law enforcemental forces, background controls facilitate the application test and other qualities.

At the same time, the Trump administration is finding ways of the attorney without really hiring local policemen.

Ministry of Internal Security dramatic A controversial cooperation program overhauled named 287 (g) This is assigning local police officers and sheriff deputies to do the work of ice agents.

The US Department of Security Secretary NOEM speaks at a press conference at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles in June.

(Luke Johnson/Los Angeles Times)

From the beginning of September, Program websiteIn March, 474 agencies participated in 32 states from 141 institutions.

Some states such as Georgia and Florida require agencies to apply to the program. Others, including California, prohibit others.

But this may change soon.

Management is investigating ways to force the waiting of millions of dollars of financing, rape crisis hotlins and child abuse centers for migration directives, including conditioning for immigration directives for domestic violence shelters. In contrast, California and several other states filed a lawsuit.

Even in the sacred judicial regions such as Los Angeles, where local laws forbidding the participation of the police from the participation of civil immigration, police officers found themselves involved in federal operations. Lapd received criticism for civil servants who responded to the scenes of the ice arrests where the clashes exploded.

Police Defense Organization President Marvel, “We are called a lot to help to go out and provide security or not to return to violence,” he said.

“The vast majority of peace officials do not want to sanctate immigration because this is not the job they register for,” Marvel said. “We want to protect the community.”

Among the agency’s most vocal critics, ice beef ice is seen as both dangerous and inefficient.

Ilya Somin, a professor of law of law and Cato Institute of George Mason University, said, “Punishment of violent criminals is the work of local and state law enforcement officers.” “If we were going to remove ice and devote money to these things, we would have lower violence and crime.”

In cash and advantage, ice inevitably hangs by pulling more people, but some warned that newly printed deportation officials should pay attention to mortgage their future.

The potential recruitment bonus of $ 50,000 is paid in installments for several years – and the role may be deprived of occupational safety.

Former Obama official Sandweg said Trump also doubled the number of staff of ICE, and rewrite the rules to make federal workers much easier.

This may be haunting many agencies after four years, “I think there is a very good chance for a future democratic administration to eliminate most of these positions.”

Zurie Pope, Ida B. Wells Investigation Reporting Association and a Times member contributed to this report.