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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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[–] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Aww, the poor fascists' feelings are getting hurt?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 11 hours ago

Are they quitting en masse? No? I call bs.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

aww, so sad. maybe quit and wait for your trials, you traitors.

[–] twotonebax@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago
[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

Maybe they should fuck off and die in a hole somewhere.

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

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I care. It's nice to know they're miserable.

[–] coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Any win we can take is good. If they do their job worse due to moral it's a small victory.

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

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

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Good and fuck them. Zero sympathy for the asswipe neo-Nazis.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Zero fucking sympahty. Those cunts only signed up like reactionary teenagers because everyone else told them their ideas and bigotry were shit and now they're whining that people continue to consider them and their bigotry shit.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh no, the gestapo is getting hassled over murdering people and its hurting their poor feefees.

I feel so bad for them. /s

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Dude. I've looked everywhere. I can't find a single fuck to give!

Seriously! They're not under the couch or in the fridge...

Hold on... Nope none in my hat.

O well 🤷

The next day: so I did find a whole bunch inside the toilet water tank. Unfortunately I've decided to hold on to all them and I'm not going to be giving any away.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 1 day ago

I seem to have misplaced my tiny violin. The damn violin is so tiny, I can keep losing it.

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

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

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[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Darn. Maybe they should quit.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Adverse selection. The folks that stick around are going to be the meanest, dumbest, and most cynical

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

They will stick around out of sheer passion for putting their boot on necks.

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

None of those guys could get real jobs, and there isn't that much demand for mall cops.

[–] Narauko@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Who would have thought Amazon caused all this by killing brick and mortar stores and malls, thus creating the mall cop to ICE pipeline.

All this time I thought it was caused by Amazon dumping money into the Trump administration. Completely different.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Jesus, I think you just figured it out. It's all the dead malls.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let’s be real here, who can follow in the footsteps of Paul Blart?

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[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

Is it a good time for me to say womp, womp, womp?

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Thoughts 'n' Prayers

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] kali_fornication@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

won't someone PLEASE think of the gestapo!

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These are people who, after this regime crumbles, will consider themselves the equivalent of Vietnam Vets, shunned by society.

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

Quotas ಠ_ಠ

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 38 points 1 day 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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Mark my words, if there's not a mass of trials putting these thugs away in a few years, there will be a whole slew of them claiming they're disabled due to ptsd for their shitty behavior

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago
[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 278 points 2 days 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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[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't fully buy this. All the gravy seals "militia" guys that we saw in 2018-2022 are just stoked to have a job that pays them for their LARPing now.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 349 points 2 days ago (19 children)

Then they should quit. Problem solved.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 168 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 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.

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[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 91 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

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

Aww, poor nazis don't like being hated.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 16 points 1 day ago

Who would’ve thought that being the boot on innocent civilians would make you the bad guy?

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Oh poor them.

Big fat /s

[–] yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 19 points 1 day ago

Fucking dumbasses

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.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Poor ICE psychopaths and sociopaths, no one loves them, only the leader and his minions.

[–] FancyGreg@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Considering the ICE agents of today are going to be this administration's patsies of tomorrow, I'd argue that not even Trump and his cronies love these fools. They're a means to an end.

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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 117 points 2 days ago (5 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

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day 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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