Insiders are saying the Department of Homeland Security’s ICE hiring is in “chaos” and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller is reportedly angry over “lagging” deportation numbers.

A DHS source told The Daily Beast on Monday that President Donald Trump’s push to “throw money around” while "panic at the top of government” has unfolded with Miller’s disappointment over agents not reaching Trump’s goal of 3,000 deportations per day.

“There are calls with Miller, where everyone is being screamed at,” the official told The Beast. “The targets he is setting for them are ridiculous, and it is a case of them just spending any money they can to increase the number of officers and deportations.”

Hiring within the agency has also presented other problems — agents joining before badges, system access or guns are available. Some say the money offer is luring veteran agents back and “insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs.”

Former executive-level leaders from HSI and Enforcement and Removal Operations have returned to the agency, “some of them taking home north of $250,000 for office-based shiftwork, per multiple sources who spoke to the Beast,” the outlet reports.

Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, has claimed that many of the new agents would be law enforcement returnees.

However, according to several insiders, several former senior employees have returned to the federal pay scale.

“With locality pay in high-cost areas—such as parts of Texas, California, and New York—adding 35 percent or more to a basic salary, agents can earn up to $137,000 in the majority of the country. This rises to $171,268 in more expensive parts of the country, such as San Jose and San Francisco,” The Beast reports.

Sources say that overtime pay has also added to the high paychecks, in addition to “ongoing federal pensions worth around $8,000–$9,000 a month, and some rehires can land well in excess of a quarter of a million annually.”

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      Yup

      Americans, now living under neo-Confederate occupation, completely shocked and watching Stephen Miller left to the mercy of the “useless idiots,” he screamed at for not hurting enough people and making him rich fast enough.

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    some of them taking home north of $250,000 for office-based shiftwork

    Sucking up resources and not actually shooting and teargassing innocent people? These are the least-awful people there!

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      That would honestly be the best thing you could do, is get hired at one of these really expensive positions, then just do nothing. So you’re draining resources from those that could do real damage, and directly taking the place from someone who could do worse.

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        I genuinely hope that there’s a movement among vets to just this. What a good way to get something back from the gov for the trauma they put them through while protecting their fellow Americans. Just be a wrench in the gears of the immigrant crushing machine.

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          Yeah, in reality there’s a ton of shenanigans they could pull. However ignoring the financial part, having a person in a position that doesn’t enact fascist policies is always better than one who does.

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    As a legal green card holder this just worries me, they need numbers and we are just an easy target, I didn’t do anything wrong but maybe they find an excuse anyway. It’s really scary.

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      I can see how that’s so stressful. I don’t want to dox myself but I was also potentially a target of this admin in some other way (there are many groups who are being targeted for all kinds of reasons), and the constant uncertainty is a real killer.

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        I just want to make sure that you are connected with your local community.

        You aren’t alone, and friends are everywhere. So long as they can count on you, you can count on friends.

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      Wow. That is just. Wow. Ok… I guess the unhinged loony left strikes again.

      How childish, and, and,… and just so uncalled for that you would stoop to such a level, as to imply that I… ::nervous cry/laugh::

      I mean, you heard my wife say I was a sexual matador. We worked very hard to come up with that line. It took us all night to think of something that so perfectly conveyed brute strength and masculinity as theatre performed for an audience and the illusion of control.

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      I dunno if Stephen Miller has a small dick or not, but if he did and was really hung up about it, would he act any different?

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    insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs.

    Honestly, I feel like this is the best use of the ICE budget: financially supporting vets who don’t deport anyone.

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    We really need to embed a mole into the payroll department so that we have an accurate list of names and addresses once America’s Nuremberg trials kick off.

    These Gestapo really do need a date with the hangman’s noose once this fascist regime gets overthrown.

    After a fair trial, of course. With plenty of signposts so they see all the process they are getting that they have denied others.

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    Some say the money offer is luring veteran agents back and “insiders claim that the crash program has led to disorder, with some veteran agents performing minimal work for substantial pay and ballooning costs.”

    My hope is that we win this passive aggressive, very poorly planned and executed war that’s going exactly like you would expect it to go. Lots of harm to innocent people who don’t deserve it, while the least deserving men hoard their profits and scream orders at their army to work harder and do the things they can’t do on their own.

    I hope due process survives, and the men who are shrieking these orders will be given a fair trial at home and abroad, despite refusing that right to others. I also hope they spend the rest of their miserable lives behind bars, and working off their debt to society in (unfortunately) more humane conditions than they deem fit for the innocent individuals they’re kidnapping and detaining.

    However, if we lose the war, at least we know there will be no due process for the men that helped destroy it. I think it’s becoming pretty clear, that either way, we can probably look forward to the day their own army finally turns on Stephen Miller, and treats him to a good old fashioned Mussolini.*

    The Metamorphoses of Mussolini’s Body

    The vicissitudes suffered by his remains only served to confirm his prediction. The incoherencies and contradictions surrounding his death, which occurred on 28 April 1945, have subsequently fuelled an uninterrupted narrative which has become an integral part of his personal myth. The exact circumstances of his death, the ordeal of having his corpse publicly displayed in the piazzale Loreto in Milan, followed by the spiriting away of his remains from the city’s Musocco cemetery by young neo-fascists, all helped facilitate his political resurrection … Mussolini committed suicide using a cyanide capsule lodged in one of his teeth on 28 April 1945(*before he can swallow the cyanide capsule)

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    He’s always screaming; it’s not particularly newsworthy, nor is it anything that anyone should care about at this point. We should all stop paying attention to him and let him scream his head off into a void.