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Saturday, December 06, 2025

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's rush to bolster the number of ICE agents on the streets means applicants who can "barely read or write" are being accepted, according to a new report. ... "We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English," one DHS official told the [Daily Mail].

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We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English," one DHS official told the outlet.

What do you expect from stinky's stormtroopers?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-04 12:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The average ICE recruit:

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-04 12:25 PM | Reply

These days it seems when I hear "ICE" it brings music to my ears: youtu.be

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-04 12:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"we have folks that can barely read or write English"

Why aren't these people being deportes?

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-04 12:43 PM | Reply

Well yeah, no ----.

Stupid people don't question illegal orders.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 01:18 PM | Reply

Well yeah, no ----.
Stupid people don't question illegal orders.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-04 01:18 PM | Reply | Flag: Accurate

"What about the Constitution? Yeah, I took a massive dump for my morning constitutional!"

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-04 01:40 PM | Reply

No different than the rest of the administration.

#7 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-12-06 10:40 AM | Reply

Hello babies. Welcome to Trumplandia.

It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to deport them nasty immigrants!"

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-06 11:02 AM | Reply

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Hannah Arendt

#9 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-12-06 01:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#9 I cannot "Newsworthy" that excellent post enough.

#10 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-06 01:47 PM | Reply

Hannah Arendt has lots of great quotes and thoughts to her credit.

And among the relationships in her life.

AI:

Martin Heidegger: A famously passionate, complex affair during her student years; he was her professor, lover, and later, a Nazi sympathizer, a fact she confronted but ultimately reconciled with in a unique way, using her influence to help his reputation.

#11 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-06 01:52 PM | Reply

Literacy is overrated and rayciss.

#12 | Posted by sit_goodboy at 2025-12-06 01:57 PM | Reply

Trump's fantasy is Tiananmen in DC.

#13 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-06 01:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

UK tabloids pile on, meanwhile

According to the National Literacy Trust, 1 in 6 people in the UK have poor or no reading skills: "More common is the use of the term 'functionally illiterate'. Around 16 per cent, or 5.2 million adults in England, can be described as functionally illiterate".

#14 | Posted by sit_goodboy at 2025-12-06 02:01 PM | Reply

Kristi Noem's ICE hiring chaos laid bare as fat, illiterate and ...
Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk news article-15345295
2 days ago " 'We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English,' one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ...

meanwhile

Obesity is a significant health concern in the UK, with recent data (2022/23) showing around 26% of adults are obese and over 64% are overweight or obese, a rising trend since the 1990s.

#15 | Posted by sit_goodboy at 2025-12-06 02:04 PM | Reply

What about in their home languages?

Actually, low literacy in home languages is also a problem because of lack of access to education there, given domestic turmoil or oppressive governments.

Damn those immigrants for wanting education for their children. The horrors!

#16 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-06 02:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#14 Well, a 16% functionally illiterate rate in the UK certainly beats the 61% functionally illiterate rate at the University of Kentucky.

:-)

#17 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-06 02:05 PM | Reply

15. If I were you, I'd be avoiding discussion of life in the US also.

#18 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-06 02:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#15 Yes, obesity is a significant problem in the UK and in the USA.

But, an even more pressing problem is o lou leai atoa o se atamai po o se isi lava mea e foliga tutusa ma se tagata soifua masani.

#19 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-06 02:15 PM | Reply

"Stupid obese people in the UK!"

#20 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-06 02:18 PM | Reply

Italian Trulli

#21 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-12-06 02:23 PM | Reply

Sure, US is pathetic- but we don't throw sh*t at UK like they do to us.

Reports from early 2023 and 2024 highlight significant educational challenges in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), showing
dozens of schools with zero students proficient in math or reading, despite high per-student spending,

Would you deny them jobs? It's not about proficiency; it's about sending a message.

#22 | Posted by sit_goodboy at 2025-12-06 02:24 PM | Reply

Daddysfist was rejected by Trump U.

#23 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-06 02:27 PM | Reply

#19
ua maalili lau spam!

#24 | Posted by sit_goodboy at 2025-12-06 02:29 PM | Reply

Samoa has one of the world's highest obesity rates, with up to 74.6% of the population being obese, largely due to a shift from traditional diets to high-fat, processed imported foods and more sedentary lifestyles. This dietary change is linked to factors like increased urbanization, economic factors making imported food cheaper, and a potential genetic predisposition that is now maladaptive with modern diets.

spam is people!

#25 | Posted by sit_goodboy at 2025-12-06 02:32 PM | Reply

The PWZ pissant comes crawling back.

#26 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-06 02:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

25. You highlighted the wrong words.

Maladaptive for modern diets.

Modern diets are killing everybody.

#27 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-06 02:52 PM | Reply

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