Saturday, January 17, 2026

ICE Agent Brags About His $200,00 Salary

A now viral video appears to show an Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agent bragging about his salary on X.

Posted by jpw at 11:30 PM | 20 COMMENTS | permalink

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"The cuts to your health care are what's paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. "AOC exposes Trump's ICE funding scheme.

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-- Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) Jan 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM

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The ICE agent replied: "I love my job, thank you. I can't believe I get paid for this. I'd do this for free."

Then a female voice behind the camera is heard asking the ICE agent how much he gets paid. She said she's a physician's assistant.

"How long did you go to school for that?" the ICE agent said. "I went to high school, and I make $200,000."

So, we take the embittered bottom of the barrel, pay them well beyond what they're actually worthwhile handing them weapons and zero accountability...

Sure, what could possibly go wrong with that?

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-16 10:08 AM

Center mass

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-16 10:48 AM

@#2 ... pay them well beyond what they're actually worthwhile handing them weapons and zero accountability... ...

You left out, ~provide them inadequate training.~

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-16 01:11 PM

@#3 ... ~provide them inadequate training.~ ...

Push for greater ICE training grows on some Republicans
www.politico.com

... Criticism of ICE has grown among influential voices for the president's coalition in the wake of the Minneapolis shooting. ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-16 01:40 PM

No money for healthcare.

No money for education.

Plenty of money for a goon squad.

Plenty of money to give to the president of Argentina.

Republicans are the dumbest people in America.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-16 03:02 PM

"Good Morning. My name is General Dan Caine. I am the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) and the highest-ranking military officer in the United States of America. As you can see from my military bio below, I have spent decades attending military colleges, universities, and training programs, was a combat pilot and a senior advisor at CIA."


"As America's top military officer, I earn $16,000 per month, which is approximately $192,000 and I live in free military housing near the Pentagon. I work long hours and like all of America's warriors, do not receive overtime pay."

"In today's America, a xenophobic ICE neanderthal with only a high school diploma can roam the streets of our country with federal credentials and a firearm, terrorize our population, and earn more salary in a year than the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff. "

Link: CJCS Bio

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-17 07:37 AM

I confess I'm a little surprised Donny Bonespurs hasn't pulled the Insurrection Act trigger by now. I'm also surprised the locals have so-far avoided providing him with any plausible reason to do so. Resist.

#7 | Posted by dutch46 at 2026-01-18 12:42 AM

I confess I'm a little surprised Donny Bonespurs hasn't pulled the Insurrection Act trigger by now.

MPD is out in force protecting ICE facilities. Also MNNG is going to support MPD. So deflects Trumps need to "pull the trigger".


"In today's America, a xenophobic ICE neanderthal with only a high school diploma can roam the streets of our country with federal credentials and a firearm, terrorize our population, and earn more salary in a year than the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff. "

Firemen make more than the CotJCoS.


"As America's top military officer, I earn $16,000 per month, which is approximately $192,000 and I live in free military housing near the Pentagon. I work long hours and like all of America's warriors, do not receive overtime pay."

Thats nothing in CA we have an Admin Mgr 3 & Hr Mgr 3, making ~$284K per year.
www.openthebooks.com

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-18 01:01 AM

Runt, one of your fellow nazis received quite a welcome in Minneapolis today.

www.independent.co.uk

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-18 01:07 AM

"As America's top military officer, I earn $16,000 per month"

How much does the Bottom get?

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-18 01:23 AM

"I'm a little surprised Donny Bonespurs hasn't pulled the Insurrection Act trigger by now."

Nah...not near enough to the election. It'll have to be so close to the actual date, we'll HAVE to cancel elections.

Maybe he can not-lose-cartilage from his other ear.

#11 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-18 01:51 AM

#10 Things a bottom asks.

#12 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-01-18 02:31 AM

Good reporting, thanks for the info. First article I saw this morning, and it, I suspect, helps me understand the dark "devotion to duty" that ICE agents exhibit. Brownshirts, by the way, tend a short time at the top, and then they are disbanded in dishonor.

#13 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-01-18 06:57 AM

Sold his soul to the devil for $200,000

#14 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-01-18 08:01 AM

It seems being a brownshirt pays really well, though one has to sacrifice one's honor and authenticity.
And for the record, of course ICE has an important role, has had an important role in the past, but today, it is all about Trump using them as his violent thug army to intimidate and terrify people in Blue States.

#15 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-01-18 08:04 AM

Sold his soul to the devil for $200,000

#14 | POSTED BY HAMBURGLAR

$400,000

Job is good for only two years at best.

Best sock it all away for a rainy day for when he is fired. And he will need a good lawyer after the investigations of the investigators of the investigators begins anew under the next administration.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-18 09:30 AM


Sold his soul to the devil for $200,000

#14 | POSTED BY HAMBURGLAR

Beats shoveling human feces. San Francisco employs 22,000 people at an average salary of $205,000 dollars.

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-18 02:35 PM

Beats shoveling human feces.
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How much do you get for polishing the orange turd 70 hours a week?

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-18 02:39 PM

Commie Spyboy is still waiting for his invite to the Murder Lardo Furry Party .

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-19 09:50 AM

Jeff is a ------- imbecile

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-19 08:35 PM

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