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riversedge

(78,030 posts) Fri Jul 11, 2025, 03:07 AM Jul 11

ICE Employee Quits: 'Had To Make a Moral Decision'

Source: newsweek

Updated Jul 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM EDT

A government attorney resigned over what he called a shift in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) mission from safeguarding the nation to chasing deportation numbers.

Adam Boyd, a 33-year-old attorney, quit the ICE legal department last month, The Atlantic reported.

"We still need good attorneys at ICE. There are drug traffickers and national-security threats and human-rights violators in our country who need to be dealt with. But we are now focusing on numbers over all else," Boyd told the outlet.

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ICE received expanded powers to conduct raids in sensitive locations such as churches, schools and courthouses. There has been a growing number of arrests at courthouses in recent months. .....................

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-employee-quits-had-make-moral-decision-2097370

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ICE Employee Quits: 'Had To Make a Moral Decision' (Original Post) riversedge Jul 11 OP

they went from catching criminals to covering for their criminal behavior Skittles Jul 11 #1

There are plenty of racist sadists only to eager tp get in on the action :( speak easy Jul 11 #2

I like to think they are still outnumbered by decent folk Skittles Jul 11 #4

Who is going to turn up at an ICE recruiting drive? speak easy Jul 11 #5

it's pretty disturbing Skittles Jul 11 #6

The insurrections orangecrush Jul 11 #12

Soon to be replaced by a dozen men with no such moral scruples. Mister Ed Jul 11 #3

"There has been a growing number of arrests at courthouses in recent months..." OldBaldy1701E Jul 11 #7

So how long do we have to pretend that we have gigantic numbers of immigrants travelingthrulife Jul 11 #8

Quotas are such a Stalin thing. Hugin Jul 11 #9

"human-rights violators" starting at the top, a pedo supervilain and a miller... Justice matters. Jul 11 #10

Tom Sez azureblue Jul 11 #11

There are national-security threats and human-rights violators in our country... AdamGG Jul 12 #13

Skittles

(167,767 posts)

1. they went from catching criminals to covering for their criminal behavior

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 03:38 AM

Jul 11

alas, there are plenty of immoral fucks around to gleefully suck on Trump

speak easy

(12,398 posts)

2. There are plenty of racist sadists only to eager tp get in on the action :(

Reply to Skittles (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 04:22 AM

Jul 11

Skittles

(167,767 posts)

4. I like to think they are still outnumbered by decent folk

Reply to speak easy (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 05:51 AM

Jul 11

but yes, right now they have a lot of power

speak easy

(12,398 posts)

5. Who is going to turn up at an ICE recruiting drive?

Reply to Skittles (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 05:57 AM

Jul 11

It is tomorrow's ICE that will be on our streets.

Skittles

(167,767 posts)

6. it's pretty disturbing

Reply to speak easy (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 06:22 AM

Jul 11

the caliber of ALL the people pimping for Trump

orangecrush

(26,865 posts)

12. The insurrections

Reply to speak easy (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 05:55 PM

Jul 11

Mister Ed

(6,694 posts)

3. Soon to be replaced by a dozen men with no such moral scruples.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 04:28 AM

Jul 11

The monstrosity known as the "Big Beautiful Bill" provides for at least a twelve-fold increase in ICE funding, which will allow staffing to balloon.

And who will fill those jobs? Certainly not honorable public servants like the man in this article. Instead, we should expect to see the ranks filled with thugs, bullyboys, brownshirts and J6-ers eager to beat up on the vulnerable.

OldBaldy1701E

(9,154 posts)

7. "There has been a growing number of arrests at courthouses in recent months..."

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 07:20 AM

Jul 11

Don't you love how they leave out the part where ICE set up those courthouse arrests by lying to people who want to immigrate properly, and are already in the country?

travelingthrulife

(3,370 posts)

8. So how long do we have to pretend that we have gigantic numbers of immigrants

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 08:45 AM

Jul 11

entering the country illegally? Clearly, if they are forced to arrest people who have green cards, have worked here for decades, have zero crimes, then there is no problem other than the one generated through propaganda.

Hugin

(36,911 posts)

9. Quotas are such a Stalin thing.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 09:07 AM

Jul 11

For example, work units were sent out to fell trees. A one note party oprichnik was sent out periodically to count the stumps of the trees a work unit had cut. If he saw the tree laying next to the stump, it didn’t count. The logistics were so bad in the rural CCCP that roads and rail were non-existent. So, the work unit would bury the trees they had cut so they couldn’t be seen. The quota was met.

Justice matters.

(8,934 posts)

10. "human-rights violators" starting at the top, a pedo supervilain and a miller...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 11:47 AM

Jul 11

human-rights violators projecting all day and all night

why won't anyone arrest the self-bragging pedo?

azureblue

(2,567 posts)

11. Tom Sez

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 04:20 PM

Jul 11

Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's border czar, admitted Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racially profiling the immigrants being rounded up in raids across the country.

"People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol, they don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them," Homan said on Fox News, adding that he says ICE agents can detain people "based on … their physical appearance."

There are over 660,000 white illegals in America. Why isn't ICE grabbing them? This explains it.

AdamGG

(1,794 posts)

13. There are national-security threats and human-rights violators in our country...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 12:08 AM

Jul 12

When there are formal cabinet meetings at the White House, there are 26 of them in the same room.

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