December 12, 2014, - 3:07 pm
Immigration Agency ICE Ranks LOWEST of Govt Agencies: WORST Place to Work Under Obama, Say Employees
What’s the worst government agency to work for under Barack Obama? Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ICE agents rank their agencies as THE WORST place to work in the U.S. government. Morale at the agency ranks lower than at any other government agency, according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, where ICE ranks 314th out of 314 agencies. That’s because of Barack Obama’s de facto immigration amnesty policy and the soon-to-get-worse de jure immigration amnesty policy.
Many times over the years, I’ve written about the low morale at ICE. It was low and got lower each year under President Bush. But it was far lower under each year so far of President Obama, and it’s gotten to the lowest point possible. When your agency ranks 314th out of 314 government agencies, you know things are very bad and, in this case, about to get even worse. Yes, with ICE, this really isn’t rock bottom. It’s false rock bottom because once the Obama amnesty policy is in full effect, things will get even worse. Clearly, the Obama proposed pay raise to ICE agents to silence them isn’t making them happier about what’s going on with U.S. immigration policy. Note that ICE is the largest sub-agency in the Department of Homeland Security.
And e-mail being sent around between ICE agents says this:
Woo Hoo, we’re #1 . . . . I mean 314 out of 314!!!!!
We need to celebrate! We are officially the WORST agency in the entire federal government to work for.
It bears noting that many of the ICE agents who sent me the info about ICE ranking dead last (and tied with another Homeland Security agency, the Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology), are FORMER ICE agents happy they are either retired or left to other agencies or jobs in the private sector. Says one former ICE agent:
LOL–so glad I left!
I know of no one who misses working at ICE. I know plenty of agents who miss the way things were when they worked for the U.S. Customs Service Office of Investigations and the INS, both of which were merged into ICE. But President Bush and Joe Lieberman made this mess, inventing an ineffective, useless, bloated giant bureaucracy that does little to make us safe.
And you wonder why agents who cannot do their jobs are miserable there.
America . . . turn out the lights before you shut the door.
It is grotesque. They have turned ICE into a social welfare and diaper changing agency. Why anyone would work there at this point is beyond me.
Debbie does point out that this mess really got going when the Department of Homeland Security was created. It is an example of bureaucratic bloat and ineptitude that rivals the worst fiascos at the Internal Revenue Service.
Worry on December 12, 2014 at 4:48 pm