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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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[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 352 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Then they should quit. Problem solved.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 169 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Unionize and demand better working conditions, like lower quotas, only criminal record targets, proper long training, and 32-hour work weeks. Strike to get it. Get fired in the process. 😂

E: Learn radical left ideology in the process.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 104 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The Border Patrol officers are literally in the same union as the nurse they shot in Minneapolis.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 49 points 1 week ago

Yes, it is.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

You shoot a union member you should be kicked out of the union or pay damages through the union. Solidary shouldn't be this blind.

[–] BlackAura@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

That's gonna make for an awkward all hands meeting.

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[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Them quitting is a good first step but wont solve the underlying issue. ICE recruited Nazis. They will be Nazis with or without ICE.

[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

But they won't have the authority, protection, and power of the state to carry out violence.

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

~~quit~~

Die of natural causes at an unusually young age even with no prior conditions.

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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 24 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I don’t know if this is true, but the employment contracts supposedly have a repayment clause. So the assumption is many people are financially unable to quit once they are hired.

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[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 280 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 129 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In 10 years, these assholes are going to hope nobody in their new neighborhood finds out they worked for ICE under Trump, or else they'll have to move again.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Speaking of, did anything happen to that list of agents? Are people finding their neighbors on it?

[–] Soulg@ani.social 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure that's how they found the pastor of that church was an ice supervisor

[–] cabillaud@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean David Easterwood? The pastor who leads the ICE field office in St. Paul? This David Easterwood?

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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 117 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”

Unbelievable.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 week ago

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

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 115 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 91 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Don't buy these cope articles. Been seeing them over a 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.

[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

another day, another psyop

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[–] Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago

Oh no, ICE is sad that everybody hates them for murdering people in the streets and putting kids in concentration camps :( Guys you're being really mean.

How about you grow a spine and quit? Oh wait, if you had a spine you never would have joined.

Get prepared for "low morale" the rest of your lives motherfuckers. You'll never outrun the shame and hate, traitors. I hope you never find peace.

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.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

Good. These people should become complete pariahs of society, shunned at every possible point of interaction. Long after they resign, even. I hope peoples' memories aren't too short.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit_of_Nazi_collaborators

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 46 points 1 week ago

They have to realize that eventually people are going to start fighting back, too, and their leadership don't give a fuck about them. They're a means to an end, and that end is getting people to riot so Trump can declare it an insurrection. If they think they fear for their lives now, wait til people start responding with actual force, not the imaginary threats they complain about.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

To quote an ICE officer after the execution of a citizen peacefully protesting, "Boo hoo".

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No one cares. We all hate you. Get fucked, brown shirts.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hey, ICE agents. A really good way to permanently solve your morale problem would be if you hanged yourselves. All the problems you've caused yourselves, your families, your communities, and this nation would be over. Please, do it. You are all unloved and untouchables. You will never be so again. It'd be easy. Google can even teach you how to tie a noose.

You ICE agents might as well do it now before society brings its revenge on you. It'd be less painful.

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Awww...how sad...their Morale is plummeting. Boo fuckin' hoo.

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[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 34 points 1 week ago

Aww, poor nazis don't like being hated.

[–] twotonebax@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago
[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

The only thing that needs to plummet is their bodies from the gallows. Fuck the feelings of mass murdering, mass torturing nazis.

[–] kali_fornication@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

won't someone PLEASE think of the gestapo!

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[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Waiting for them to all take the Revolver Taste Test Challenge.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago (19 children)

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.

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[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait until they inevitably face actual consequences, then you'll really see their morale drop.

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[–] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Quotas ಠ_ಠ

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So when do we get the movie about how invading Minneapolis made the ICE agents sad?

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sorry, I lost the world's smallest violin. This is the best I can do: 🖕

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

They love it, it's the best job they ever had. They get to do what they've always wanted--have power over people, order them around, and beat the shit out of them as much as they want, knowing they won't be held accountable.

Anyone that statement doesn't apply to, has either quit already or never considered taking a job like that in the first place.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

And yet they're still there, murdering innocent American citizens.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Awwwww the poor gestapo has their feelings hurt? The moral is low after shooting nonviolent protesting citizens? They feel bad for racially profiling off duty cops? They are in the dumps because the public hates that they are taking away civil liberties and constitutional rights? Then fucking quit, cross the line and take a stand. Maybe you won’t be on trial once the dust settles and the Nuremberg trials II electric boogaloo start.

[–] Zagam@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago

I know me and my lib friends would feel super duper owned if they all blew their brains out.

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