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.

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    These gestapo mother fuckers weren’t “forced” to do anything. They applied, interviewed and accepted their positions. And when this administration asked them to do things they weren’t comfortable with, they just fucking did it anyway. No sympathy for these fucks. I hope they can’t sleep at night for the rest of their lives because that’ll still be a fraction of the emotional trauma they’ve inflicted on countless nonviolent immigrants.

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    funnily enough the actual Nazi Gestapo also suffered the same problem. It was hard to find people who actually wanted to do this and they had to abstract the logistics of exterminations to stop the SS/SD from topping themselves all the time

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    No one’s forcing them to do anything. They could refuse, change departments, get another job, etc.

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    “Some ICE staff had already jumped ship over Trump’s mass deportation policy, including 33-year-old Adam Boyd, a form(er) sic. ICE attorney who left the agency in June. Boyd told Miroff he ultimately made a “moral decision” in deciding to leave the agency.”

    I’m torn. On the one hand, “Good!”. OTOH this means it leaves the ones WITHOUT morals are still there and working.

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    “Forced”? Last I checked they weren’t under contract like soldiers so why can’t they just walk away from the job?

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    So don’t.

    If you signed up to stop crime, do that and only that. And I don’t mean “the crime of being here.”

    If you’re conducting a legal action with a judicial warrant to detain an actual dangerous criminal, focus everything on getting that one guy.

    Anyone else who happens to be in the neighborhood… isn’t.

    If you’re sent to raid a business/farm that’s illegally exploiting undocumented immigrants, arrest the exploiter, not the workers.

    That goes double if you got a tip about the business, because it’s highly likely the owners themselves sent it in order to quash discontent or unionization.

    Have no power to make those decisions? Run slowly, grab loosely, pull your punches and aim any chemicals or less-lethal projectiles wide of any humans. And keep top of mind that they are HUMANS, despite what your reptilian overlords may tell you.

    Don’t quit, make them fire you for sabotaging the cruelty.

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    For whatever reason, I opened this article thinking it was from the Onion, or similar joke site.

    I didn’t realize it wasn’t until I got to the end.

    We say things like “There’s even a timeline in which Hitler’s art career takes off”…

    Every other timeline uses ours for that example.

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    This kinda reminds me of Romans 13, a passage in the bible used to excuse nazi soldiers at one point