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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social

ICE has cut Spanish-language requirements for its new recruits because it doesn’t want them to understand what people are saying as they’re being terrorized.

Caleb Vitello, who runs training for ICE, says it has cut Spanish-language requirements to reduce training by five weeks, and he’s been looking for ways to streamline the training and have recruits do more at the field offices where they’re assigned.
aug 24, 2025, 4:59 pm • 326 168

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Trojan Duck @yossarian320.bsky.social

They're going to be recruiting inmates from prisons inside of six months

aug 24, 2025, 5:08 pm • 4 0 • view
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🌮 Fash G Looz 🌮 @fashgonnalooz.bsky.social

Also, they really want to target their recruiting on people who didn't learn Spanish at home or through their community AND who would never ever in a million years make the effort to learn any language other than English. They only want 'real' Americans who ONLY speak English.

aug 24, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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Muddypup @muddypup.bsky.social

And if you don’t understand the poor English spoken by the thugs then that’s just another excuse to kidnap them.

aug 24, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social

The paragraph I posted is from an Associated Press story.

aug 24, 2025, 5:05 pm • 49 19 • view
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Nani @caryrid.bsky.social

What’s the legal parameters when you prevent someone from breaking the law?

aug 24, 2025, 5:22 pm • 2 0 • view
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bxloriel.bsky.social @bxloriel.bsky.social

This is the return of “Encomienda”, 500 years later.

aug 24, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social

Some background on "Encomienda."

aug 24, 2025, 5:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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bxloriel.bsky.social @bxloriel.bsky.social

Thank you for clarifying. Your post about the willful suspension of language training made me think of the "requerimiento" (a term which I haven't thought about in years) which, whether factually or falsely, I believed was used as justification for the imposition of encomienda.

aug 25, 2025, 1:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Mike G the Old Yinzer @mguido99.bsky.social

Lovely.

aug 24, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk

Asking bottom of the barrel of society to be bilingual was always going to rule out too many

aug 24, 2025, 5:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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Duncle Stan @monkey-cousin.bsky.social

Naw it’s because the dudes they recruit barely graduated high school, much less learned a second language

aug 24, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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44 is the one 🕳 @jettdash.bsky.social

I'm still telling you, they are checking voter registration and only hiring republicans.

aug 24, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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Gordon Vincent He/Him @gordonvincent.bsky.social

And because they're hired thugs, not public servants.

aug 25, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rocky Mountain Views @rockymountviews.bsky.social

I am surprised they ever even asked for this. There if very little overlap of the circles on the Venn Diagram of "Hate-filled Bigots" and "Fluent in Spanish".

aug 24, 2025, 5:01 pm • 2 0 • view
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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social

📌🔥

aug 24, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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EarnedMySpurs💙 @plannedtheride.bsky.social

I guess this now gives them license to yell "SPEAK ENGLISH!!!" to non English speaking victims as they physically abuse them.

aug 24, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
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FNU LNU @mop-fautneddy.bsky.social

Relaxing requirements to meet recruiting quotas... Prepare for inexperienced morbidly obese fifty-eight-year-olds swarming a neighborhood near You.

aug 25, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Andrea Vaghy @avaghy.bsky.social

I am sure the requirements will be down to walking and breathing in a few weeks because it is a terrible job with brutality the only real qualification.

aug 24, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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R. Wm. "Ruedii" 🦊🐧 🥖 @rwruedii.bsky.social

I think most of the people volunteering would enjoy understanding the screams of the people they are kidnapping.

aug 24, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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fuckoffnazi.bsky.social @fuckoffnazi.bsky.social

Nazi fucks

aug 24, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tom Higgins @interestedparty.bsky.social

There is no bottom, and death in the Third Reich was routinely delivered by prisoners who spoke a language not understood by the prisoners whom they were ordered to execute.

aug 24, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view