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While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusioned’ with leadership’s tactics, according to reports
Morale is “plummeting” among federal law enforcement officers tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigration operation, as they complained that long hours, ambitious arrest quotas and hatred from the public, according to reports.
While officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol, overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, said they supported the administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown “disillusioned” with the tactics being implemented by leadership.
More than 20 current and former immigration officials told The New York Times of their discontent in the hours following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti by a federal agent in Minneapolis.
It was the second deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen carried out by a federal agent in weeks, as officers clashed with protesters following intense public anger over the violence in Minneapolis.
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Aww, poor nazis don’t like being hated.
I hope they realize that if the US survives Trump, having “ICE: 2025-?” on your resume will make you completely unemployable in the future. It will be like having “groundskeeper at Epstein Island” under your experience. You’ll be radioactive. Even if you leave it off, if you look suspiciously like a thumb and have a blank spot on your resume during this period, people will just assume that you worked at ICE and kick you out of their office.
It’s already too late to just quit. If you were a member of ICE and didn’t quit after Good was murdered, people will rightfully assume that you were OK with that murder. The only hope current ICE employees have is to turn whistleblower. Record in detail all the crimes your cow-orkers are confessing to, and then get that evidence to AOC or Elizabeth Warren, or another competent democrat with a backbone.
I somehow doubt this… there will always be people in need of thoughtless, violent, thugs.
And that’s exactly why they will continue to be ICE employees
As sad as it is, I fear that you shouldn’t isolate them completely. Yes they fucked up and I completely understand your hatred, even feel the same, but there are just too many of them. I am not saying that you should copy post WW2 Germany in that regard, but at least take note
This reminds me of the story of the IDF soldier who couldn’t eat meat anymore because he crushed too many Palestinians under the bulldozer he was driving.
I don’t feel bad for any of these fuckers and I hope it gets worse for them.
The only thing that needs to plummet is their bodies from the gallows. Fuck the feelings of mass murdering, mass torturing nazis.
Don’t buy these cope articles. Been seeing them for all year now. The Trump administration’s fracturing. Republicans are rejecting Trump. And now we have this. Don’t buy it they’re trying to make you complacent. Trying to make you slow down and take your foot off the pedal.
another day, another psyop
Basically anyone that’s good news, isn’t. At least these days.
But I do hope it is somewhat true. I would love to hear about rampant depression and a 100% “an hero” rate.
I don’t cheer for that often, but sometimes it seems 300% justified.
Boo fucking hoo, we’re coming for you.
And yet they’re still there, murdering innocent American citizens.
Cry me a river. Fuck ICEstapo completely. I don’t give a flying fuck about their morale. They’re terrorists.
You made your bed, now sleep in it you nazi fucks.
How many times has this paper described 2% drops in polls as ‘plummeting’?
Oh, we don’t just hate you, ICE agents, we want you in prison for the rest of your lives at the very least. Or publicly hanged like the Nazis you are.
Content Warning: Photo of dead Nazis.
Mmhmm, you love to see it.
Oh, upside down? I’m all for a humiliating public execution.
The morning after Benito Mussolini’s death, partisans dumped his corpse in Milan, and an angry crowd soon converged. The mob kicked, spat at, and urinated on the body of “Il Duce” while shouting curses at the dead dictator. His mutilated corpse was then hung upside down from a gas station, a symbolic retribution for the suffering he had caused.
Of all the shit I know about Mussolini, the most fucked up fact that sticks with me is that he laughed at running over a child. That is the piece of shit he was.
Death is way too good for the people who deserve capital punishment.
I do want them in prison forever, but I’m not really hopeful that will happen.
Good. Fuck ICE. Every single one of them.
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Morale is plummeting among ICE agents
I’d like to know how this compares to the morale crisis reported about 6 months back. Is it consistent or has it gotten even worse.
as they complained that long hours, ambitious arrest quotas and hatred from the public
Total lack of empathy. Their complaints are all about the impact on them. “We work too long, too hard, and without proper recognition”. No thoughts given to the cruelty that they release into the world.
many of them have grown “disillusioned” with the tactics being implemented by leadership
Is it just the actions of leadership that bother them and not their own actions? Is their complaint not that they are murdering, harassing and unlawfully targeting the most vulnerable among us (children, elderly sick, etc) because they don’t like the color of their skin? What changes are they hoping to see? Parades that celebrate their cruelty? Pizza parties for the team with the youngest person disappeared? An Amazon gift card for the most laws ignored in a month?
“It’s completely unfair to the agents who have been put in this position,” he added. “There’s only so much they can handle before bad things start to happen.”
Nope. It is completely fair. They are 100% responsible for their own actions. The agents are the ones committing these acts. They can refuse illegal orders, they can resign, they can obstruct, they can be whistleblowers.
“The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”
Aaah, so close. They almost had a moment of recognition.
“All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda, but have serious hesitations about the way it is being carried out and the messaging that comes with it,” … “Many of the sources have expressed frustration that ICE is routinely blamed for the actions of Border Patrol, a completely separate agency.”
Again with the complete lack of personal responsibility or awareness of the consequences of their own actions
Sounds like a bunch are just covering their asses with the “just following orders” line. Look, you can follow orders, ones you may not even be privy to even being lawful (I’d imagine there might be assumptions made in a few scenarios), but the moment you learn a warrant wasn’t signed, or that excessive force is used, etc. You are now culpable and an accomplice to a crime. I can watch a friend a rob a bank, but if I do nothing, even if I’m told to be quiet about it, I will be tried for that crime as well.
“The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”
Unbelievable.
this is the propaganda machine at work. this is what the moral apathy of a man turned empty vessel. this is the banality of evil. it has been with us for decades, even centuries. this form of evil is common many places.
it is, unfortunately, extremely believable
“The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”
simply enforcing the law
That’s going to be the “I was only following orders” of the American Nuremburg Trials.
Total lack of empathy.
It is my unfounded, unsubstantiated belief that this is the biggest reason why ICE was chosen for the gestapo-like role they have now. If you take every last department with manpower and guns, the role of “disrupting and upending the lives of otherwise peaceful people” is far and away the one responsibility that differentiates it from all other roles. Like working in an abattoir, empathy just gets in the way of processing illegal immigrants for deportation. A total lack of empathy was a job requirement before all this kicked off. We shouldn’t be surprised that this is what we’re up against.
