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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 347 points 1 month ago

Then they should quit. Problem solved.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 170 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 110 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month 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 month ago

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

[-] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

But that's not why they joined ICE. They are there explicitly to terrorize and kill people, and to feel like the masculine versions of themselves they are too weak to actually be.

[-] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

They likely are unionized

[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 month ago

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 33 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Manjushri@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Nazis are not the ones with the ~~moral~~ morale problems, I'm sure. They are all walking around at half-mast over the hate they are receiving and the atrocities they are committing.

[-] logi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

To be precise, the Nazis do have plenty of moral problems. They're not the ones with morale problems.

[-] Manjushri@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Fair point. Thanks for the correction.

[-] logi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

English is such a weird language.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 month ago

~~quit~~

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

[-] j_elgato@leminal.space 8 points 1 month ago

Fuck that.

Prior conditions.

ALL the prior conditions. U.S. healthcare will prove to be just as fatal, optimizes suffering, far more expensive, and the frustration of knowing you could be cured easily by a functional system run by a caring society.

Exactly. If they still accept a check, the morale isn’t “low”

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 22 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Allow me to ready the world's tiniest violin for a serenade...

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

They all got massive sign-on bonuses. If they quite before 5 years they have to pay 10k per year they left early.

[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

For sure but I feel even the ones that want to quit won’t, because of this. That’s all I meant 🤷‍♂️

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