That excerpt is from a WaPo story on the Hiring Expo put on by the DHS this week. I think that makes clear the kind of people who are applying for the jobs.
Here’s another one. Kole Wunschel is 18 years old. He wants the job badly and is prepared to quit school to take it:
“I want to do anything that betters our country,” Wunschel said before his father, Kim, cut him off.
“Letting 15 million people in the country illegally should never have happened, and the people that allowed it to happen should be arrested,” Kim Wunschel said. “If your first act coming to America is breaking the law, then you don’t have the right to be here.”
Note that he says “the people who allowed it should be arrested.”
Another:
The recruiting push has come with militaristic branding that evokes World War II-era U.S. propaganda posters featuring Uncle Sam, casting immigration enforcement as a defense against an “invasion.” At the hiring expo, a video played on a large screen in a dimly lit room touting ICE’s role investigating human trafficking and drug-smuggling, and showing agents in fatigues and bulletproof vests.
That message appealed to Arturo Sanchez, 29, who sported an Air Force cap as he made his pitch. He’d been a hydraulics specialist working on E-C130s at posts including Kuwait, Afghanistan and Qatar. Since he left the service, he’s been selling manufactured homes. He said he once applied to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, but was turned down. He said he believes that working against illegal immigration will help prevent human trafficking and drug smuggling.
Sanchez, whose great-grandparents emigrated from Mexico, said he was undeterred by the harsh and inaccurate statements some recruits at the expo shared about immigrants. He said he sometimes had to deal with uncomfortable situations in the Air Force, including racism, which he was always able to handle on his own.
“I think that it would be beautiful if we could all live together in peace and happiness, but Satan doesn’t allow that to happen, unfortunately,” Sanchez said. “There are evil deeds that do go unpunished, so that’s where people like me want to see if I can help contribute to bringing justice.”
He says he’s fighting Satan.
Not one of these people should be anywhere near a police agency. And yet, I suspect they are actually mild in temperament and ideology compared to many of those they are hiring.