• w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    Why isn’t ICE furloughed during the shutdown? This is all stupid. I hate it here.

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      Same reason the BBB funded them by over $10,000 per undocumented ‘target’, making one of the most well-funded armies in the entire world.

      It’s not meant to operate as a deportation force, it is a paramilitary meant to serve the administration’s corrupt whim.

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        Same reason the BBB funded them […]

        It took me a second to get past reading that as the Better Business Bureau, and I was wondering what the hell they had to do with any of this.

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          It’s not 100% out of the realm of possibility. They’re a terrible organization that exists mostly to protect businesses who do shit work.

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            They are Yelp for Boomers. They have no official power.

            Source: I did agency and corporate SEO for 10 years.

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      Oh they are beyond just avoiding being furloughed. They are getting all their earlier unpaid checks plus all their overtime pay.