Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
www.independent.co.uk
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

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.

  • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
    331·
    10 hours ago

    If you are one of those people criticising peaceful protest as “not enough” this is proof it does something. It may not be enough on its own, but despite everything, they’re people and they suffer from repeated, massed, loud criticism and insults. This is the mechanism through which peaceful protests can work.

    • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Is it the peaceful protest or the surge in searches for “stand your ground” and “castle doctrine” tacked on to being kicked out of hotels and restaurants?

    • bampop@lemmy.world
      11·
      9 hours ago

      Also, it’s very important to be numerous and visible. Most people feel the need to follow the herd and go along with whatever the majority is doing, to a greater or lesser extent. Very few people will act in isolation. Protests are a show of numbers, and that makes a huge difference in helping people to contribute in still greater numbers. Just as it erodes morale on one side, it boosts it on the other. And if in the end, the situation must devolve into violent confrontation, those numbers will make all the difference.

    • jonesey71@lemmus.orgEnglish
      8·
      9 hours ago

      Peaceful protests and don’t sell anyone associated with ICE any food until they die of starvation, peacefully.

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        12·
        9 hours ago

        Seriously though, I think businesses refusing service to ICE is a powerful form of protest, even if they don’t starve.