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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42213365

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.

  • switcheroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Good. Fuck you. You’re all terrible and will one day get exactly what you deserve.

    Nazi scum.

  • Cargon@lemmy.ml
    12·
    9 hours ago

    If they had any honor or humanity left in them they would kill their superiors and then themselves.

  • HermitBee@feddit.uk
    11·
    10 hours ago

    This is the first stage.

    ICE are funded up until the end of FY2029, so that they can act as Trump’s personal army should the election not go his way. They cannot be defunded by anyone. That gives them over 3 years to weed out the weak, harden the strong, and practice urban combat.

    So while I’m glad that these crybabies couldn’t hack the path they chose, I can’t be glad about what it’s doing to the overall makeup of ICE.

  • demizerone@lemmy.world
    7·
    12 hours ago

    ICE, Do the world a favor and send yourselves to the shadow realm. Then you won’t need to get put on a list after this is all done.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
    7·
    12 hours ago

    Poor things, facing a few weak consequences of their murderous brutality.

    If it’s too much for them, suicide is always an option.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    16 hours ago

    “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.”

    They knew exactly what they were getting themselves into. Most of them want those bad things to happen. They masturbate over the prospect of that brutality.

    This is just some asshole trying to hand-wave away the crimes these people are doing under the guise of “boo hoo, poor them!”

    They deserve zero sympathy. And all of them who have harassed, threatened, kidnapped, hurt, or murdered people should be brought to justice.

  • criss_cross@lemmy.world
    20·
    17 hours ago

    Good. They should feel miserable and hated.

    This isn’t a fucking game to the people whose lives you are ruining.

    Keep it up until they all quit. Then when we can go for convictions.