Nicolle Wallace said the Trump administration’s lowered hiring standards, especially when it comes to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, are putting American lives at risk.
The MS NOW host issued the warning on Thursday’s “Deadline: White House,” after what she called a “bombshell” whistleblower complaint made by a 17-year ICE veteran who accused the agency of cutting corners and fast-tracking “improperly vetted” candidates into its ranks.
According to the complaint, first reported by The New York Times, the official said he had witnessed an “unprecedented lowering of standards” that could place the Department of Homeland Security “at risk of infiltration and insider compromise.”
“A healthy organization does not lower its standards for hiring — full stop,” Wallace said. “They just don’t. A healthy, vibrant, magnetic organization doing something that the citizens support doesn’t need to lower the standards to practically none, to attract people to carry out the mission. And that is what is happening at ICE.”
The “Deadline: White House” host said that unlike in other administrations, the “standards for getting hired in Trump 2.0” aren’t qualifications or merit, but simply loyalty to President Donald Trump and his agenda.
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