ICE Applicants Failing Fitness Test, Recruitment ‘A Disaster’ - the Tuesday AM Quickie 10/21/25

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10/21: Emma is hosting solo today, and the guest is Elie Mystal, American political commentator, writer and former litigator. He is the justice correspondent at The Nation, where he writes about the courts and the criminal justice system.

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Today you’ll read about how the majority of ICE applicants can’t do 15 pushups, the DOJ told an attorney to lie to a judge about Kilmar Ábrego García, and Trump’s demolition of the White House with a backhoe.

THE BIG NEWS

ICE Applicants Failing Fitness Test, Recruitment ‘A Disaster’ 

Despite attempting to lure top talent with a $50,000 signing bonus, despite forgiving their student loans, despite drastically lowering the bar to apply, the Trump administration still cannot find qualified candidates to serve in their Immigration and Customs Enforcement gestapo. More than a third of applicants are crashing out because they can’t pass a basic personal fitness test, even though it was recently made easier, The Atlantic reported yesterday evening.