# Joseph Moore
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Kind: **person**

Also written as: Moore · the Marine reservist and father of two · the recruit

## Involved in

- [A Marine reservist and father of two who was hired by ICE died by suicide days after being told he would lose the job.](https://truthscore.com/claim/05976b08)
- [ICE officials believed they had talked Moore down, and Philadelphia police officers arrived with weapons drawn.](https://truthscore.com/claim/3165c976)
- [The department expressed condolences to Moore's family and said the incident remains under investigation.](https://truthscore.com/claim/3245c8b5)
- [Moore was hired in the fall as a deportation officer.](https://truthscore.com/claim/3a2735b7)
- [Two of Moore's former colleagues at the Philadelphia office told the newspaper they believed he should not have been hired in the first place.](https://truthscore.com/claim/55bf3afe)
- [Moore was one of roughly 12,000 recruits ICE brought on during a hiring push meant to support the Trump administration's mass-deportation goals.](https://truthscore.com/claim/6407f285)
- [Joseph Moore died on 2026-08-28 outside ICE's Philadelphia field office, and the death was ruled a suicide by the Philadelphia medical examiner's office.](https://truthscore.com/claim/6f2002cf)
- [In a 2020 letter to a Pennsylvania town's supervisors, Moore wrote, “Policing is in my blood,” adding, “There is no other career for me.”](https://truthscore.com/claim/748d2ab3)
- [Moore died three days after ICE notified him that he would be fired and one day before his one-year anniversary with the agency.](https://truthscore.com/claim/78a7874d)
- [Moore enlisted in the Marines after high school.](https://truthscore.com/claim/7d7f8b64)
- [He graduated from a police academy in 2014.](https://truthscore.com/claim/ab9051ac)
- [In Moore's case, ICE belatedly identified that he had been fired from two prior law‑enforcement agencies, according to the Post, based on employment records in…](https://truthscore.com/claim/c151e559)
- [He served about five years before shifting to a part‑time commitment as a reservist.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d4342c74)
- [Relatives said the firing notice came days after Moore filed a workers' compensation request tied to a car crash.](https://truthscore.com/claim/dabe4308)
- [Employment records cited in court filings showed Moore had been fired by two agencies and rejected by others before he found work as a police officer in a…](https://truthscore.com/claim/e04ca566)
- [Moore's family has questioned the ruling and how authorities handled the scene.](https://truthscore.com/claim/f28fc7b4)

## Statements attributed to it

- [In a 2020 letter to a Pennsylvania town's supervisors, Moore wrote, “Policing is in my blood,” adding, “There is no other career for me.”](https://truthscore.com/claim/748d2ab3) — restatement (zero weight)