4d ago

'It's miserable:' ICE 'morale in crapper' as agents forced to 'arrest gardeners'

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As Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents embark on countless deportation raids in an effort to meet the White House’s daily arrest quota of 3,000, many officers are becoming completely demoralized, several agents told Nick Miroff with The Atlantic.

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1w ago

ICE 'morale in crapper' as agents forced to 'arrest gardeners'

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These gestapo mother fuckers weren’t “forced” to do anything. They applied, interviewed and accepted their positions. And when this administration asked them to do things they weren’t comfortable with, they just fucking did it anyway. No sympathy for these fucks. I hope they can’t sleep at night for the rest of their lives because that’ll still be a fraction of the emotional trauma they’ve inflicted on countless nonviolent immigrants.
Maybe don't work for Team Evil then.
funnily enough the actual Nazi Gestapo also suffered the same problem. It was hard to find people who actually wanted to do this and they had to abstract the logistics of exterminations to stop the SS/SD from topping themselves all the time
No one's forcing them to do anything. They could refuse, change departments, get another job, etc.
"Some ICE staff had already jumped ship over Trump’s mass deportation policy, including 33-year-old Adam Boyd, a form(er) sic. ICE attorney who left the agency in June. Boyd told Miroff he ultimately made a “moral decision” in deciding to leave the agency."
I'm torn. On the one hand, "Good!". OTOH this means it leaves the ones WITHOUT morals are still there and working.
- His claim he left due to his morals is laughable; in order to become a cop or work in that system, one cannot have morals to begin with. There are no moral cops.
  
  The terrifying thing about this kind of problem is that they do have morals, but they've been warped. They're surrounded by systems that tell them that what they do is good, necessary, or at least morally justified. That warp their judgement and morals, protecting and encouraging their part in heinous acts. All the while their moral judgements see themselves as the good guys, and that's the worst part.
  If somebody sees a conflict between their personal morals, and the actions of themselves the system around them, good on them for refusing to participate anymore.
  
  He's a lawyer
- Feeling this so much in my own job!
"Forced"? Last I checked they weren't under contract like soldiers so why can't they just walk away from the job?
- Excuse-me-but-they-are-just-following-orders'25.
So don't.
If you signed up to stop crime, do that and only that. And I don't mean "the crime of being here."
If you're conducting a legal action with a judicial warrant to detain an actual dangerous criminal, focus everything on getting that one guy.
Anyone else who happens to be in the neighborhood... isn't.
If you're sent to raid a business/farm that's illegally exploiting undocumented immigrants, arrest the exploiter, not the workers.
That goes double if you got a tip about the business, because it's highly likely the owners themselves sent it in order to quash discontent or unionization.
Have no power to make those decisions? Run slowly, grab loosely, pull your punches and aim any chemicals or less-lethal projectiles wide of any humans. And keep top of mind that they are HUMANS, despite what your reptilian overlords may tell you.
Don't quit, make them fire you for sabotaging the cruelty.
Yeah, no one's buying this. These are sadistic thugs who've had ample opportunity to learn the history of Hitler's brown shirts and went ahead and signed on the dotted line anyhow.
Aw, those poor little Nazis. Here, I've got a cozy little fire pit for you to warm your bones.
Cry harder nazis
They should all quit then and get jobs doing something that isn't evil.
- Or become depressed alcoholics and put a bullet in their brains. Either or.
Imagine the morale of the Gardner, damn.
For whatever reason, I opened this article thinking it was from the Onion, or similar joke site.
I didn't realize it wasn't until I got to the end.
We say things like "There's even a timeline in which Hitler's art career takes off"...
Every other timeline uses ours for that example.
This kinda reminds me of Romans 13, a passage in the bible used to excuse nazi soldiers at one point

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