This is MAGA. Incompetence is their brand. I doubt they can make any of that happen efficiently.
Besides, just forcing them to jump through all those hoops on every applicant is already a win.
They have been taking pictures and using facial recognition at protests, they are adept at scouring people’s online footprint, and they have thousands of employees. How do you plan to get a statistically significant number of sympathetic people into their ranks undetected, and then keep them there as they throw a wrench in the works?
This is a pipe dream.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
They seem pretty competent at spreading misery and pain so far.
Consumer2747@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
But it’s a FUNNY pipe dream at a grim time.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
It is definitely a fun thing to think about, just not realistically feasible as the person I was responding to was hoping for.
Consumer2747@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Fair enough
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
You’re ascribing more competence to these people than they deserve. They’re not omniscient. And trawling social media only gets you so much. Hell, you can tell them you’re generally liberal but opposed to illegal immigration if you really want. Yes, the Trump admin has some pretty extensive social media search capability, but that’s for their upper level cabinet officials. They just can’t afford to be that picky for the type of low-level position I’m talking about. ICE has expanded by leaps and bounds, way beyond any ability for them to properly screen applicants.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
That may be so, but the problem is getting a statistically significant number of people to participate and go unnoticed. People are already being arrested for interfering with ICE. If they have a bad employee, they will get fired. If they think that employee intentionally let people get away, they will be arrested. If they think there is a conspiracy to create hundreds of bad employees (which is what we are doing here), then they will investigate and find a reason to arrest en masse.