ICE recruits can't pass open-book written test

Monday, November 03, 2025

According to the report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC, "nearly half of new recruits who've arrived for training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center over the past three months were later sent home because they couldn't pass the written exam, according to the data. The academic requirement includes an exam in which officers are allowed to consult their textbooks and notes at the end of a legal course." Or put another way, almost half of these recruits failed an open-book test.

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Do they pick boogers and eat them, too?

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-03 10:05 AM

... Or put another way, almost half of these recruits failed an open-book test. ...

Perhaps they were attracted to apply for the position by the violence they see ICE using upon people, including American citizens.

... President Donald Trump signaled in a recent interview that he won't be backing down on immigration enforcement raids across the country, despite divided public opinion and intensifying legal pushback.

In an interivew with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired Nov. 2, host Norah O'Donnell asked Trump whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had gone too far in recent operations. She specifically addressed viral incidents in which agents tackled a mother, used tear gas in a Chicago neighborhood and smashed car windows.

Trump brushed off the criticisms and doubled down on his far-reaching immigration crackdown.

"I think they haven't gone far enough," Trump said. "Because we've been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama." ...