A 68-year-old retired police officer from Ohio spent months preparing for a new career as an ICE deportation officer — completing training, reviewing classified manuals, and relocating plans — only to receive a one-paragraph email telling him he was, in fact, too old for the job. The rejection came after former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had publicly and loudly declared that the age cap for ICE recruits was gone.
The man, identified only as Doug in a report by PunchUp, said the experience left him with deep resentment. 'I feel a lot of resentment, because in good faith, I did all of this for nothing,' he said. His case has since shed light on the full scale of the fallout from Noem's recruitment drive, one that DHS is now struggling to manage.
