While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusioned’ with leadership’s tactics, according to reports
Morale is “plummeting” among federal law enforcement officers tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigration operation, as they complained that long hours, ambitious arrest quotas and hatred from the public, according to reports.
While officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol, overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, said they supported the administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown “disillusioned” with the tactics being implemented by leadership.
More than 20 current and former immigration officials told The New York Times of their discontent in the hours following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti by a federal agent in Minneapolis.
It was the second deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen carried out by a federal agent in weeks, as officers clashed with protesters following intense public anger over the violence in Minneapolis.
Ok we’re talking different points here, let’s disentangle.
There are legal procedures like aforementioned abolishing of ICE, DHS, what have you. I’m absolutely here with you my dear USAmericans.
But also there are other things like hundreds of thousands enraged men. If Trump fails today, they will grow resentful to move Vance or a worse big mouth GOP Nazi into the office tomorrow. You will either need an analog to Speziallager or some other magical measures like propaganda or forced lobotomy.
The way we fix that is by being credibly willing to address their problems. Actual problems, not the bullshit they’ve been fed. Homelessness, poverty, healthcare, wages, childcare, addiction treatment, a legal system that many of them are just now noticing is unjust and Kafkaesque, even something as simple and universal as burnout, all the evils wrought by capitalism. This is why I’m so fucking angry at centrists all the time. Their dishonestly held power within the Democratic Party has resulted in there being no party willing to address these issues with any level of credibility. Without a credible way forward, they’ll find a con man who at least acknowledges that their problems exist.
Incrementalism is not a credible solution. It’s a way for people who do nothing to justify doing nothing.
Something needs to change to stop the cycle of angry people who know they have no prospects falling for fascist propaganda about how they’re going to improve things. But the camps weren’t it. The movement to rid the government of all nazi affiliates in this way was slow and complicated. It disabled significant parts of the government which slowed down the economy, delayed important work like repairing infrastructure and thus made prospects even worse than they had to be for said disillusioned young men. Then the Soviets and the Brits and the U.S. all found some people too important to remove from their posts which left the Nazism in place and bred resentment about why some people were punished for their roles and others weren’t. The Soviets liked the camps the most, but because they believed in purifying the masses’ ideological beliefs. Which is papering over some of the practical policies therein.
What saved Germany from the masses of disillusioned men was actual opportunity and rising standards of living. What’s causing a ‘conservative’ resurgence there and in the U.S. and elsewhere is the backslide in those areas. The answer is improving people’s lives, or at least not worsening them. Admitting we need to change what is and isn’t considered ‘creating value’. Focus on caring for our young and elderly and caring less about how many physical hours you must waste standing or sitting or walking around somewhere because a middle manager likes owning your time. But if we want to leave oligarchs in place to toy with our health and happiness and then put ourselves in camps every so often that’s an option too I guess. I just feel as though that’s part of the cycle, not breaking the cycle.
Listen I’m not opposed to mandating lobotomies for ICE agents, in fact that sounds quite fun, but I think the problem you’re referencing could be significantly lessened by actually providing high-quality education (all free of course) and actually meeting people’s material needs.
Not fixed, mind you, but significantly lessened.