ICE Quietly Fires New Hires, Devastating 1 Recruit’s Law-Enforcement Dream
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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 15
ICE Quietly Fires New Hires, Devastating 1 Recruit’s Law-Enforcement Dream
1 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 15
Summary
ICE has been quietly dismissing newly hired recruits, with the latest report centering on Joseph Moore, a Marine reservist who had pursued law enforcement since his teens.
Court filings show Moore’s path had already been fragile: two law-enforcement agencies fired him, other departments rejected him, and he eventually took a policing job in a small Pennsylvania city with limited advancement.
That history made the ICE job a crucial opening for Moore, who wrote local officials in 2020 that policing was “in my blood” and that there was “no other career” for him.
The case illustrates how ICE’s low-profile cuts are hitting individual recruits abruptly, turning what looked like a federal career break into another setback.