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Immigration Agents Terrified by ICE Backlash (www.kenklippenstein.com)

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“We do have personnel but some just don’t want to go,”

“There might be some immature knuckleheads who think they are out there trying to capture Nicolas Maduro, but most field officers see a clear need for deescalation,” a high level career official at Homeland Security headquarters in Washington also told me. “There is genuine fear that indeed ICE’s heavy handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around.”

"Immature" is not the description I have in mind for these goons, but what can you expect from a high level DHS agent.

It's sad that people had to die first, but:

Folks, it's working. Keep it up.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They are getting scared because they have a feeling people might be shooting back soon.