I am really trying to give a shit.
Inside ICE, Trump's migrant crackdown is taking a toll on officers -Reuters
WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Under President Donald Trump, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has become the driving force of his sweeping crackdown on
migrants, bolstered by record funding and new latitude to conduct raids, but staff are contending with long hours and growing public outrage over the arrests.
Those internal pressures are taking a toll. Two current and nine former ICE officials told Reuters the agency is grappling with burnout and frustration among personnel as agents struggle to keep pace with the administration’s aggressive enforcement agenda.
Sniff.
The agency has launched a recruitment drive to relieve the stress by hiring thousands of new officers as quickly as possible, but that process will likely take months or years to play out.
All of those interviewed by Reuters backed immigration enforcement in principle. But they criticized the Trump administration's push for high daily arrest quotas that have led to the detention of thousands of individuals with no criminal record, as well as long-term green card holders, others with legal visas, and even some U.S. citizens.
Most of the current and former ICE officials requested anonymity due to concerns about retaliation against themselves or former colleagues.
Yes, we demand anonymity from our public servants.
A Republican-backed spending package passed by the U.S. Congress in July gave ICE more money than nearly all other federal law enforcement agencies combined -
$75 billion over a little more than four years - including funds to detain at least 100,000 migrants at any given time.
The Trump administration has launched a vigorous recruitment drive on the back of the new funding to meet its goal of hiring 10,000 ICE officers over the next four years.
Using wartime-style posters and slogans such as "America needs you," ICE has launched a media blitz highly unusual for a government agency, running ads on social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube.
Homeland Security said more than 115,000 “patriotic Americans” had applied for jobs with ICE, although it did not say over what time period.
115, OOO, patriotic racists, you mean?
I am sure they will be able to hire plenty of poorly educated thugs. There seems to be a bottomless well of those.
I regard ICE as a poorly dressed version of the Gestapo.
The secretive organisation needs gutting; the financing was fine before, but now it is a burgeoning fascist arm of the administration. Masked? WTF?
Now Farage and other wannabe fascists in Europe are taking up the call.
I wonder what the financial losses over time will be, since all many people understand are the costs/money.
Fascism really arrives easily, that’s my conclusion.
BTW, I lost the violin. Anyone got a strong magnifying glass?
