ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I can't think of anything more symbolic of the USA, a broad swath of the citizenry allergic to physical activity. Imagine expecting law enforcement agents to meet basic fitness standards in order to perform a job that's physically daunting. I could stay out drinking all night and still meet these standards with a massive hangover.

President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[White 6]

I can't think of anything more symbolic of the USA, a broad swath of the citizenry allergic to physical activity. Imagine expecting law enforcement agents to meet basic fitness standards in order to perform a job that's physically daunting. I could stay out drinking all night and still meet these standards with a massive hangover.

President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

Heck, Taz, I'm 71 and can beat those standards. It sounds like a large swath of young people in America are just pussies.

 

[martybegan]

I can't think of anything more symbolic of the USA, a broad swath of the citizenry allergic to physical activity. Imagine expecting law enforcement agents to meet basic fitness standards in order to perform a job that's physically daunting. I could stay out drinking all night and still meet these standards with a massive hangover.

President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

it's bad news, but news people need to hear.

 

[Captain Creeper]

Employment with the federal government generally is a welfare system.

 

[OldFlame]

Employment with the federal government generally is a welfare system.

I agree... Why don't we all get this, we're apparently paying for it.

Many federal government employees have a FERS Supplement to bridge the gap to Social Security eligibility, officially called the Special Retirement Supplement (SRS). This is a monthly payment provided by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to certain employees who retire before age 62, until they turn 62, when they can apply for their actual Social Security benefits. Eligibility is not universal, and the supplement is subject to an earnings test.

Key details about the FERS Supplement

• Purpose: The supplement provides a financial bridge for FERS employees who retire before age 62, as Social Security benefits are not available until then.
• How it works: It is funded and administered by the federal government, not the Social Security Administration (SSA).
• Eligibility: Not all FERS employees are eligible. It is designed for those who are eligible for a FERS retirement and retire before age 62.
• End date: The supplement ends when the recipient turns 62.
• Earnings test: An earnings test is applied, which can reduce or eliminate the supplement if the retiree earns above a certain threshold from employment. Only "earned income" (like wages) counts toward the limit, not investment income or other retirement benefits.
• Important note: Legislation in 2025 proposed eliminating the supplement for future retirees, though it would have grandfathered current recipients. The effective date for the proposed change was January 1, 2028.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I can't think of anything more symbolic of the USA, a broad swath of the citizenry allergic to physical activity. Imagine expecting law enforcement agents to meet basic fitness standards in order to perform a job that's physically daunting. I could stay out drinking all night and still meet these standards with a massive hangover.

President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

Sounds like we need some hardworking immigrants to fill these jobs. Oh wait...

 

[MarathonMike]

Heck, Taz, I'm 71 and can beat those standards. It sounds like a large swath of young people in America are just pussies.

Way way too much time playing video games and not enough time outside doing physical activities. So far the two youngest generations are not representing themselves very well.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I can't think of anything more symbolic of the USA, a broad swath of the citizenry allergic to physical activity. Imagine expecting law enforcement agents to meet basic fitness standards in order to perform a job that's physically daunting. I could stay out drinking all night and still meet these standards with a massive hangover.

President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

Well, in a way, Trump did "double" the size of ICE.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Heck, Taz, I'm 71 and can beat those standards. It sounds like a large swath of young people in America are just pussies.

Or it may show that ICE has to dredge the riverbottom scum for recruits.

 

[Captain Creeper]

There is a way to remedy have fat, lazy, leftist youths. We can put them in mandatory military service at 18 (or even 17), give them a big rifle, and send them overseas to shoot brown people. It will whip them into shape and give them a much better appreciation for the United States.

Soldiers who actually go out into a warzone and soldiers on the other side, they are heroes. To some degree, the support personnel are essential and should also be proud. But the majority of people in the U.S. military are parasites. I do not blame them for being that way; they are just taking advantage of an opportunity given to them. They make good pay in the service for what they do, get a very generous pension and health insurance for life when they put in 20 or more years. Many then are assimilated into federal civil service (i.e., the welfare state) where they will draw a paycheck, then retire and draw TWO federal pensions. All the while, they never killed a man, liberated a town, or razed a hospital in enemy land. Oh, and do not question them about their RIGHT to their pay. They will kill to, scratch, claw and do whatever to get "what is rightfully theirs". It is too bad they never levy such self-righteousness toward our enemies.

I love our military. But it is being shamefully taken advantage of by leeches and parasites.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

There is a way to remedy have fat, lazy, leftist youths.

Sorry, we are talking about right wing incel youths who are signing up for ICE.

 

[Captain Creeper]

Way way too much time playing video games and not enough time outside doing physical activities. So far the two youngest generations are not representing themselves very well.

They need to put down their joysticks and go out into the woods and kill something.

 

[Captain Creeper]

Sorry, we are talking about right wing incel youths who are signing up for ICE.

In your twisted mind, maybe.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

In your twisted mind, maybe.

Uh huh. Sure. It's leftists signing up for ICE.
Just take your L and go start a thread about your leftist fantasies.

 

[Edgetho]

I can't think of anything more symbolic of the USA, a broad swath of the citizenry allergic to physical activity. Imagine expecting law enforcement agents to meet basic fitness standards in order to perform a job that's physically daunting. I could stay out drinking all night and still meet these standards with a massive hangover.

President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

Under a dimocrap president all those fat pukes would have been accepted into Service provided they fit the 'right' profile.......

Under an American President, they're finding out that just showing up doesn't get you a Gold Star. You have to earn it.

Those requirements are juvenile

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Under a dimocrap president all those fat pukes would have been accepted into Service provided they fit the 'right' profile.......

Under an American President, they're finding out that just showing up doesn't get you a Gold Star. You have to earn it.

Those requirements are juvenile

You dont seem to be following.

The screening process was loosened under Trump, leading to this result.

Following, now?

 

[Concerned American]

I can't think of anything more symbolic of the USA, a broad swath of the citizenry allergic to physical activity. Imagine expecting law enforcement agents to meet basic fitness standards in order to perform a job that's physically daunting. I could stay out drinking all night and still meet these standards with a massive hangover.

President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

I once spoke to a German national that was making the point that Americans were the only people in the world that would use a drive up window at McD's to avoid walking in, and order a Big Mac, super sized fries and a DIET COKE. LOL. I had to agree with him.

 

[Edgetho]

I once spoke to a German national that was making the point that Americans were the only people in the world that would use a drive up window at McD's to avoid walking in, and order a Big Mac, super sized fries and a DIET COKE. LOL. I had to agree with him.

I should think a German would appreciate the efficiency, however

 

[Concerned American]

I should think a German would appreciate the efficiency, however

I went to Burger King in Munich and there was no drive up. LOL, I was able to get a beer though---same in Nice, France at McDs.

 

[Blaster]

It sounds like a large swath of young people in America are just pussies.

Most Democrats are.