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Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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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.
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.
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?
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.
Aaah, so close. They almost had a moment of recognition.
Again with the complete lack of personal responsibility or awareness of the consequences of their own actions
Unbelievable.
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
Sounds like a bunch are just covering their asses with the "just following orders" line. Look, you can follow orders, ones you may not even be privy to even being lawful (I'd imagine there might be assumptions made in a few scenarios), but the moment you learn a warrant wasn't signed, or that excessive force is used, etc. You are now culpable and an accomplice to a crime. I can watch a friend a rob a bank, but if I do nothing, even if I'm told to be quiet about it, I will be tried for that crime as well.
That's going to be the "I was only following orders" of the American Nuremburg Trials.
It is my unfounded, unsubstantiated belief that this is the biggest reason why ICE was chosen for the gestapo-like role they have now. If you take every last department with manpower and guns, the role of "disrupting and upending the lives of otherwise peaceful people" is far and away the one responsibility that differentiates it from all other roles. Like working in an abattoir, empathy just gets in the way of processing illegal immigrants for deportation. A total lack of empathy was a job requirement before all this kicked off. We shouldn't be surprised that this is what we're up against.