Homelander Posted September 20 Author Posted September 20 On 3/20/2025 at 12:23 PM, BillsFanNC said: You either condemn ALL political violence without parsing and hand waving or you can't/won't.
The Frankish Reich Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago Uncomfortable truth: ICE is staffed with two types of agents. There are the professional (primarily criminal) investigators. They have long been embarrassed by being associated with the rest of ICE, so they've tried to rebrand themselves as Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). But organizationally they are still ICE, and Trump is increasingly pulling them away from criminal investigations to assist with mass deportations efforts. And then there is Enforcement and Removal, which is staffed with some smart and professional officers, and a lot of, well, men and women who couldn't qualify to get a proper federal law enforcement job. Some are goons, plain and simple. Some are lazy. There are a lot of military veterans, and again, some use that experience to adjust rapidly to a civilian chain of command, and others just think they ought to be able to do to American citizens or even illegal aliens residing in the United States what they thought they could do to Iraqis. These are the vast majority of Trump's urban strike force. Bad, bad sh!t is gonna happen. They are actively being encouraged to go rogue, and they lack the professionalism to reject that encouragement. Unfortunately, this won't end until something really bad does happen. 1
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