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Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
(www.independent.co.uk)
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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.
Fucking dumbasses
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.
Also, it's very important to be numerous and visible. Most people feel the need to follow the herd and go along with whatever the majority is doing, to a greater or lesser extent. Very few people will act in isolation. Protests are a show of numbers, and that makes a huge difference in helping people to contribute in still greater numbers. Just as it erodes morale on one side, it boosts it on the other. And if in the end, the situation must devolve into violent confrontation, those numbers will make all the difference.
Peaceful protests and don't sell anyone associated with ICE any food until they die of starvation, peacefully.
Seriously though, I think businesses refusing service to ICE is a powerful form of protest, even if they don't starve.
Poor ICE psychopaths and sociopaths, no one loves them, only the leader and his minions.
Aww, poor nazis don't like being hated.
ICE has been living in a snowflake bubble thinking the majority of us do anything other than hate them.
Let's say some
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.
I somehow doubt this.. there will always be people in need of thoughtless, violent, thugs.
And that's exactly why they will continue to be ICE employees
And that's exactly why we need to abolish ICE.
You can't abolish ice by pretending the people will eventually vanish into nowhere or get ok with public ostracism. That's marvel story, bud.
As sad as it is, I fear that you shouldn't isolate them completely. Yes they fucked up and I completely understand your hatred, even feel the same, but there are just too many of them. I am not saying that you should copy post WW2 Germany in that regard, but at least take note
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.
The only thing that needs to plummet is their bodies from the gallows. Fuck the feelings of mass murdering, mass torturing nazis.
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.
Don’t buy it they’re trying to make you complacent.
They're not. They're encouraging us to keep up the pressure because it's starting to work.
another day, another psyop
Basically anyone that's good news, isn't. At least these days.
But I do hope it is somewhat true. I would love to hear about rampant depression and a 100% "an hero" rate.
I don't cheer for that often, but sometimes it seems 300% justified.
Boo fucking hoo, we're coming for you.
And yet they're still there, murdering innocent American citizens.
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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You made your bed, now sleep in it you nazi fucks.
How many times has this paper described 2% drops in polls as 'plummeting'?
Cry me a river. Fuck ICEstapo completely. I don't give a flying fuck about their morale. They're terrorists.
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
“The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”
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.
"The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop."
simply enforcing the law
That's going to be the "I was only following orders" of the American Nuremburg Trials.
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Then they should quit. Problem solved.
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.
The Border Patrol officers are literally in the same union as the nurse they shot in Minneapolis.
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So these clowns joined up because their echo chamber made them feel like they were going to be some kind of hero. But when they got out in reality, they found...reality. People hate them, they're destroying families, holding kids hostage, and murdering people. There are definitely a number of them getting off on what they're doing, remorselessly. For others it may just be a shit job, a lousy place to work. But for a few, I bet they finally figured out that they aren't who they thought they'd be viewed as.
Hang like the Nazis you are, and the morale will improve
Quit then you fucking pigs
Who gives a fuck if morale in the Gestapo is low?
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