- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
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.
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
And that’s exactly why we need to abolish ICE.
You can’t abolish ice by pretending the people will eventually vanish into nowhere or get ok with public ostracism. That’s marvel story, bud.
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