Slashdot Mirror
Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: When ICE launched an immigration crime hotline last year, the Trump administration pitched it as a way to provide resources to victims, but activists saw something else: an attack on the immigrant community. The hotline was part of the Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office, an outfit established in February 2017. When the office first launched a line for its services the following April, protestors flooded the hotline to call in pranks and slow down response times. The plan picked up even more steam as the protestors shared the hotline number online, encouraging others to call in with fake tips.
According to internal emails and documents obtained by The Verge under the Freedom of Information Act, prank calls fully upended the system, leaving operators unable to answer more than 98 percent of incoming calls during the protest as the media relations team attempted to contain the narrative. In reports and emails produced in the first days of operation, ICE officials described an "overwhelming" amount of calls. The day after the launch, the office received more than 16,400. Of those, only a little more than 2,100 were placed into a queue, and only 260 answered. Callers in the queue waited as long as 79 minutes to reach an operator. An official noted that, should the rate of calls continue, they would need an additional 400 operators to field the hotline.
According to internal emails and documents obtained by The Verge under the Freedom of Information Act, prank calls fully upended the system, leaving operators unable to answer more than 98 percent of incoming calls during the protest as the media relations team attempted to contain the narrative. In reports and emails produced in the first days of operation, ICE officials described an "overwhelming" amount of calls. The day after the launch, the office received more than 16,400. Of those, only a little more than 2,100 were placed into a queue, and only 260 answered. Callers in the queue waited as long as 79 minutes to reach an operator. An official noted that, should the rate of calls continue, they would need an additional 400 operators to field the hotline.
Also, this caravan - if it comes to a border point - this is legal asylum seeking.
The hell it is.
Asylum from what? The countries they are so proudly waving the flags of? Did Jews escaping Germany wave nazi flags?
This is a deliberate stunt, to import more democrat voters (for hopefully future elections, but you never know once they get the warm bodies here).
And it's deliberately timed to coincide with elections. Which isn't the smart move you think it is. Most people don't want lawlessness and chaos, and most people don't want to add more people to the already creaking welfare system.
Not as easy as it may sounds. Just leave your neighbor's number. Your move.
Prompt them to type in not just their phone number, but also their Driver's License number. Verify the DL number against the DL database before connecting the call.
Any "protestor" that goes past those two checkpoints and makes an obvious prank call --- criminally prosecute them under the full extent of the law, and make a public example of them (It's a felony to make false statements to a government official).
Seems a lot to just shout DEY TUK URRR JERBS which is probably what a lot of the 'legit' calls are about. While you're at it though might as well get them to leave their social security number and bank account details too.
Wanna buy a shirt?
https://www.redbubble.com/people/stealthfinger/shop?asc=u
Hint: You've got a better chance of surviving The Purge if you're a gun-totin' prepper type... not a campus hipster.
Your country has a better chance of not having a purge if its full of campus hipsters vs prepper types
Any country has a better chance of not having a purge if it's homogeneous, but I don't think that's a proper aim.
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
Yes, yes. The SJWs should go get the one percenters and stop harassing fellow Americans. This whole PC bullshit is a plot to get poor people to go after the middle, industrious, meritocratic class.
Ah, but think of the children, if we could save just one life, ONE LIFE of a child killed by an illegal immigrant, we should deport them all. Liberal logic works both ways, jackass.
Seems a lot to just shout DEY TUK URRR JERBS which is probably what a lot of the 'legit' calls are about. While you're at it though might as well get them to leave their social security number and bank account details too.
You wouldn't be so smug and dismissive if you lost a child or loved one to an illegal alien, which is what this number was setup to support. You care more about illegal aliens, who have no right to be here, than murdered American children. Apparently, they'd have to be illegal to get you to care.
By the way, while it's evident you prefer broken English by your support of illegal aliens, the whole "took our jerbs" thing has been repeated by brain-dead liberals a million times now. If you didn't have your head burried in the liberal media's ass, you'd realize this goes way beyond jobs at this point.
Enjoy the "blue swirl" as your party and your ill-conceived ideas go down the shitter where they belong!
If your child is murdered, I would suggest you phone the police, not an immigration hotline. Thanks for trying though.
Wanna buy a shirt?
https://www.redbubble.com/people/stealthfinger/shop?asc=u