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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.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 month ago
[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 50 points 1 month ago

Yes, it is.

[-] 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.

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[-] 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.

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

~~quit~~

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

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[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 288 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 month ago

Content Warning: Photo of dead Nazis.

Mmhmm, you love to see it.

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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 129 points 1 month ago

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 69 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Soulg@ani.social 39 points 1 month ago

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

[-] cabillaud@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

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 122 points 1 month ago

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 61 points 1 month ago

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

Unbelievable.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 month 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

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[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 99 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 29 points 1 month ago

another day, another psyop

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[-] Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month 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.

[-] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

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 month 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

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 46 points 1 month 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.

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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[-] FishFace@piefed.social 39 points 1 month 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.

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[-] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 34 points 1 month ago

Aww, poor nazis don't like being hated.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

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

[-] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] kali_fornication@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

won't someone PLEASE think of the gestapo!

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[-] ebolapie@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Wytch@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago

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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[-] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Quotas ಠ_ಠ

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago

Boo fucking hoo, we're coming for you.

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[-] Zagam@piefed.social 27 points 1 month ago

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

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month 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 27 points 1 month ago

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

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 27 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

"Waaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaahh! I'm an ICE Agent, and I feel bad! Waaaaaaahhh!!! I'm an ICE Agent, and nobody likes me! Waaaaaahh! Waaaaaaahh!"

Go eat curb, Fascist goons.

[-] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 25 points 1 month ago
[-] rayyy@piefed.social 25 points 1 month ago

Who would have thought that people would not love pedophile protectors and murderers terrorizing Americans.

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