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turbinetree

(27,139 posts)
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 10:05 AM Jul 2025

'It's miserable:' ICE 'morale in crapper' as agents forced to 'arrest gardeners' [View all]

By Alexander Willis
Published July 10, 2025 10:45 AM ET

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.

“Morale is in the crapper,” a former ICE agent told Miroff on the condition of anonymity out of fear of repercussions. “Even those that are gung ho about the mission aren’t happy with how they are asking to execute it – the quotas and the shift to the low-hanging fruit to make the numbers.”

President Donald Trump, along with nearly all Republican members of Congress, recently gave ICE a staggering bump in its budget in the budget reconciliation package known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The bill increased annual spending for the agency to $37.5 billion, making ICE’s budget higher than the military budgets of all but 15 countries, including the United States.

https://www.rawstory.com/ice-2673063565/

These people made there bed, they knew exactly what was happening there are two words that people understand yes or no...........and they mostly said yes to do this shit

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Exactly. You shat your own bed, you can lie in it. Current ICE agents will be all but unemployable under future admins. eppur_se_muova Jul 2025 #1
I hope they have horrific nightmares every single night for decades. nt Justice matters. Jul 2025 #17
I'll bet there are a substantial number of them that are relishing it. everyonematters Jul 2025 #2
Nasty, mean spirited and an over abundance of male toxicity are prerequisite for job application. jrthin Jul 2025 #6
So the 100k wannabe backyard UFC fucks lmao n/t Cheezoholic Jul 2025 #20
Absolutely! SheltieLover Jul 2025 #35
At bdamomma Jul 2025 #25
Exactly! *None* of them were drafted into the job. Heidi Jul 2025 #57
They're going to pay them enough to relish it Prairie Gates Jul 2025 #3
I think the vast majority of them get off on the cruelty and enjoy their jobs. BannonsLiver Jul 2025 #4
Did they 'not see' themselves in the mirror? C_U_L8R Jul 2025 #5
No, because they wear a mask outside...nt róisín_dubh Jul 2025 #10
Hey traitor, you're getting paid tax payer money to be a shitty person, act like a man, no whining. nt Hotler Jul 2025 #7
But the pay is too good to quit the job. kentuck Jul 2025 #8
Trump will have to fill the ranks by pardoning more (Aryan) thugs. Ping Tung Jul 2025 #9
Don't believe it awesomerwb1 Jul 2025 #11
It's a matter of time before they face armed resistance Johnny2X2X Jul 2025 #12
Yeah, they think they're "miserable" NOW? Just wait. Grokenstein Jul 2025 #16
Maybe the morale drmeow Jul 2025 #65
They will quit and rejoin as soon as they're eligible for the $10k signing bonus newdeal2 Jul 2025 #13
Poor babies, for years their union undermined the Dem administrations, fixtures on Fox, while UTUSN Jul 2025 #14
If you don't like being a Nazi, stop being a gd Nazi. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #15
Nobody is forcing them to work for the Gestapo dalton99a Jul 2025 #18
They're not nearly miserable enough Arazi Jul 2025 #19
use words they'll understand Marthe48 Jul 2025 #37
She said these people believe they're heroes and doing important things Arazi Jul 2025 #41
Scabby the Rat Nasruddin Jul 2025 #40
This is interesting advice LearnedHand Jul 2025 #51
Jenn Budd is on Bluesky Arazi Jul 2025 #52
Thanks -- I had never heard of her LearnedHand Jul 2025 #53
She blew the whistle on being a Border Patrol agent. Dixiegrrrl Jul 2025 #59
Eff 'em! If the rest of Govt Employees have to dread each new day tonekat Jul 2025 #21
Those so called bdamomma Jul 2025 #22
Do the world a favor and blow your Nazi brains out, assholes. Every damn one of you. Put that big gun to use. NBachers Jul 2025 #23
wearing a mask in the summer can't be comfortable maxsolomon Jul 2025 #24
Good. durablend Jul 2025 #26
This sounds suspiciously like "We were just following orders." sop Jul 2025 #27
It will with this SCOTUS. RockRaven Jul 2025 #30
So quit already Half-step Jul 2025 #28
Brownshirts crying about not having enough fun brownshirting. RockRaven Jul 2025 #29
They're sad because good people are calling them Nazis instead of heroes LuvLoogie Jul 2025 #31
Good! Ray Bruns Jul 2025 #32
So quit. Demobrat Jul 2025 #33
Not to worry, they'll soon hire many more agents who will be very pleased to be brutal to productive, innocent people. unblock Jul 2025 #34
Yeah, well. Boo-fucking-hoo... (nt) Paladin Jul 2025 #36
They can always quit. Diamond_Dog Jul 2025 #38
Waste fraud and abuse Nasruddin Jul 2025 #39
Life is hard when it takes 6 agents to give a beat-down to a 5'5" middle aged gardener... Hekate Jul 2025 #42
YOUR CHILDREN WILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID!!! ret5hd Jul 2025 #43
ICE: Les Misrables? Au contraire, they should be PROUD of the Traditions they are Upholding SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 #44
well boo fucking whoo barbtries Jul 2025 #45
All that military gear they wear must be hot eh? pwb Jul 2025 #46
Womp womp Unbitten Jul 2025 #47
Good Lulu KC Jul 2025 #48
Let them find honest work wryter2000 Jul 2025 #49
I hope whatever they do haunts them for life... Chakaconcarne Jul 2025 #50
They need to be shunned from their communities electricmonk Jul 2025 #54
Screw them and their 'morale' Ruby the Liberal Jul 2025 #55
That's what you get for letting a lunatic fringe propaganda channel do your critical thinking for you. Initech Jul 2025 #56
I'll believe it when we see mass resignations. Heidi Jul 2025 #58
I worry about many things. ICE morale is not one of them. malthaussen Jul 2025 #60
Kick, kick, kick! Heidi Jul 2025 #61
Aww, poor ICE bros are miserable. Reader Rabbit Jul 2025 #62
Giving domestic terrorism a whole new meaning. Heidi Jul 2025 #64
Thoughts and prayers, fuckers, Conjuay Jul 2025 #63
If their morale is so bad and their consciences are battered . . . peggysue2 Jul 2025 #66
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