In an interview on Friday, Grey said not all of the 28 took the test and those who did have a slim chance of reaching the next step.
From the start, four Immigration employees decided not to apply for a federal job, while 37 were disqualified because they failed to meet the age requirement, Grey said.
The written test, he added, was just the first step for local employees going through the federal hiring procedure.
Grey said of the few who took the test, the failure rate was 50 percent.
He did not have the exact number of local Immigration employees who failed the test.
According to Grey, those who passed the written test will be scheduled for a video interview which will be evaluated in Washington, D.C.
Then, they will have to go through a medical examination and a background check.
“If they get through all that, they’ll be notified for hiring,” said Grey, who used to work for federal Immigration.
“Their scores in the written examination must be high,” he added.
He admitted that most of his current employees will lose their jobs once the federalization law takes effect in June.
With the economy in a slump, Grey said he doesn’t know where local Immigration employees can get new jobs.
“So what jobs are waiting for them? Where are they going to go?” he asked.
The federalization law, he added, stated that U.S. Immigration will hire locally “to the maximum extent practical.”
“We have asked the feds, ‘What are you going to do with us?’ We haven’t received a reply,” Grey said.
