DISTURBING follow up information regarding my brother's European vacation tour that happened to include an ICE agent...

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About a week or so ago, I posted that my brother had called from Europe and told me that his vacation tour of Portugal and Spain had randomly included both an ICE agent and an immigration attorney. Now that my brother is home, I have follow up information.

As for the immigration attorney, that guy apparently once worked for Homeland Security. Now, he defends immigrants. So, that guy turned out to be a good guy who had no qualms talking about what he does for a living. In contrast, the ICE agent (his name was Frank) initially tried to be vague about his employment. After a while though (perhaps after he'd had a little too much wine?), Frank opened up and started vigorously defending what he does. He referred to himself as a "patriot" and "big time Trump supporter. Disturbingly, at one point in the tour, he attempted to crack jokes about "capturing and deporting" an Indian couple that was also part of the tour. At that point, my brother - who can take on a strong resemblance to Robert De Niro when he contorts his face just so - said that he loudly let Frank know something to the effect that Frank's own day of reckoning would soon be coming. To which Frank piped down for the rest of the tour, possibly in his pea sized brain realizing that all the ICE agents who participated and were complicit in what is happening would be staring at criminal convictions.

Now, here's the part I found most interesting. Before Frank got put in his place, he offered some specifics about bonuses currently paid to ICE agents. He said that hiring bonuses run upwards of $60,000 and that $2,000 bonuses are paid for each and every arrest - regardless of whether or not that person turns out to be undocumented. Frank's European vacation had been paid for as a result of "capturing" a handful of American residents. So, there you have it - The Department of Homeland Security and ICE are, under Trump, financially incentivized to terrorize any and all Americans under a policy of...arrest first, get paid and ask questions later.