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ICE Nightmare UNCOVERED As Crushing Email On Recruit Failures Exposed
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8:12Now PlayingKristi Noem's attempts to gain more ICE recruits to hit the Trump's administration's goals are crumbling as new internal emails and ICE officials reveal that the recruits they are getting are failing basic fitness exams at a massive rate. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits
"President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.
More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous."
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