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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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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.
Bloody hell.
Yes, it is.
You shoot a union member you should be kicked out of the union or pay damages through the union. Solidary shouldn't be this blind.
That's gonna make for an awkward all hands meeting.
But that's not why they joined ICE. They are there explicitly to terrorize and kill people, and to feel like the masculine versions of themselves they are too weak to actually be.
They likely are unionized
It's crazy that it's literally illegal for federal employees to strike.
Them quitting is a good first step but wont solve the underlying issue. ICE recruited Nazis. They will be Nazis with or without ICE.
But they won't have the authority, protection, and power of the state to carry out violence.
The Nazis are not the ones with the ~~moral~~ morale problems, I'm sure. They are all walking around at half-mast over the hate they are receiving and the atrocities they are committing.
To be precise, the Nazis do have plenty of moral problems. They're not the ones with morale problems.
Fair point. Thanks for the correction.
English is such a weird language.
~~quit~~
Die of natural causes at an unusually young age even with no prior conditions.
Fuck that.
Prior conditions.
ALL the prior conditions. U.S. healthcare will prove to be just as fatal, optimizes suffering, far more expensive, and the frustration of knowing you could be cured easily by a functional system run by a caring society.
I don’t know if this is true, but the employment contracts supposedly have a repayment clause. So the assumption is many people are financially unable to quit once they are hired.
Must be a US thing.
It's a unique ice thing. I've heard they are paid a bonus and are on the hook to give it back if they don't work 5 years. Ofc they could just not spend it but assuming they did they owe the government money if they quit.
I don't care though, they are murdering people in the streets
Its not unique to ICE its how hiring bonuses work all over the US. Its not universal but it is a common practice.
lol - the Nazis are indentured servants?
Its actually really common in the US. Hiring bonuses get paid out at the end of the first year but are paid on the first day. The repayment is pro-rated based on how long you worked.
Yes of course. Every job in the United States starts with a debt contract /s
I’ve never heard of this before but it is a real thing. I would chock this up to the Administration not wanting to really pay anyone… thus trying to ensure they don’t get massive numbers quitting.
Also, anyone notice that all the people working for DHS during all of this that media has captured in public are men? Is that by design or do women have better morality?
My wife told me about some lefty podcast she listens to where the host was recruited by them and went through the process just to take a peek behind the curtain. Apparently the 5-year repayment thing is real, at least going by the contract they gave her.
Allow me to ready the world's tiniest violin for a serenade...
Exactly. If they still accept a check, the morale isn’t “low”
They all got massive sign-on bonuses. If they quite before 5 years they have to pay 10k per year they left early.
It sucks to suck.
For sure but I feel even the ones that want to quit won’t, because of this. That’s all I meant 🤷♂️