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Jennyg's avatar

Good, ICE should quit their jobs!

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RandomHuman's avatar

Especially since they are working to profit the 1% at the expense of their own ethics and morality. https://theflaw.org/articles/publicly-traded-private-prisons/

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Bridget Porter's avatar

Thank you for sharing this article with us. There’s so much going on that it’s hard to keep up with, let alone take the time to do a deep dive into the smaller details of the policies and what the true motivation driving them. This has left me feeling sick, but it also motivates me to keep taking action to fight for change.

Is there any wonder why they’re banning books that disclose the true history of our country?

“Private prisons make people realize just how close incarceration is to slavery. Public prisons have more insidious ways of profiting off of incarceration, but private prisons make this reality plain – people in power are getting rich off of the incarceration and enslavement of people.”

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Roger Wiesmeyer's avatar

Have you seen the documentary called 13th?

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RandomHuman's avatar

TY.

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Richard Waddell's avatar

What is it about?

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Roger Wiesmeyer's avatar

How slavery still exists in this country because language buried in the 13th amendment.

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Amy Adrion's avatar

SPAM

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Amy Adrion's avatar

SPAM

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Miles vel Day's avatar

I don't think we need to bring hard-left-coded shit about "private prisons" into this. A VAST majority of imprisonment is public sector, anyway.

They're putting people in concentration camps. Don't make this any more complicated than it has to be.

If you want to talk about something they're doing to benefit the 0.01% (1% is a terrible standard, this country doesn't suck because of a doctor making $600k) it's cutting people's medical care to give the money directly to them.

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RandomHuman's avatar

They are for profit, privately run prisons where you make money by keeping people in concentration camps. That is not "hard-left-coded shit". That is just how it works when the prisons are run by private companies. I don't think we need to bring name calling dog whistling into this.

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Miles vel Day's avatar

I don't want to call anybody any names. Nor do I think there is anything okay with private (or foreign) prisons. I'm just encouraging people to keep the appeal of the critique as wide as possible and when you start railing on corporations a lot of people stop listening. Just how it is...

Besides, if we got rid of private prisons, we would still have approximately 100% of our problems with prisons because the public sector prisons are not run any better. It would just be less tacky.

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RandomHuman's avatar

You just did call names. Just sayin'.

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Miles vel Day's avatar

Eh. Sure, I called a specific kind of rhetoric "a name." No person.

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Dlburns65@gmail.com's avatar

What!!!

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Bridget Porter's avatar

I’m sure there are plenty of people who thrive off of cruelty who would be willing to take their place. The majority of ICE agents have been employed by the agency for years and have been specifically trained to do their jobs. The way things have been handled in other areas of government, DJT is willing to take willing people and deputize them when their only qualification is their ability to lay aside any moral or ethical concerns (if they have any) and act with the cruelty that’s required to do the job.

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Mary Hale's avatar

There are plenty of radicalized nut jobs that post on X. He can find ICE candidates there. My guess though is that these are the unemployed guys living in Mom's basement and ranting all day.

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Rana Favors's avatar

I think some of them are J-6ers that were pardoned. They’d do anything asked of them.

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Lea Menzies's avatar

They should also NOT be Wearing Masks if they have the balls to do this Job than MAN the FCCK UP

These Men are Pigs

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Bridget Porter's avatar

But also those who acquire an arsenal of weapons and meet up on weekends to simulate war games. They are rabidly awaiting any opportunity to act them out.

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

They are what he wants! So long as they don't act or attempt to think on their own, they're in!

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Robot Bender's avatar

It would be interesting to know how many of those keyboard commandos actually apply for those jobs, as well as how many are hired.

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Jaye's avatar

All the people he pardoned from Jan 6 should already be employees there.

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

Also, don't forget, to be able to kneel for trump when he demands they do. Not really a job is it?

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kalicokat's avatar

It's getting pretty crowded under orange dumpster jesus's desk

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

I’ll bet it is! He’s not even religious unless it’s a tool to bring in more members into his base, that is already cultish. Mind you, I have never counted Evangelists as the most sane people in the world, so they’ll fit right in. They both want your money. You get the government you deserve because you weren’t facing the dangers of Trump’s second term. “This has to be seen to be believed” is what the rest of the world is saying. They know it’s NOT the majority of Americans that follow trump, yet even then they said, “How could this have happened?”

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RandomHuman's avatar

He's a magical thinker - will not tolerate anything that does not fit his pov and it has worked for him somehow that I just don't get, but it has. And the evangelists are also magical thinkers. So they prop each other up. When you give it all up to a higher power, you no longer second guess yourself and you march forward confidently. "The lord told me to do it" has power. Delusions of grandeur allow action. We are being led in a bad direction by the magical thinkers. I hope that whatever higher power does exist will help us to bypass another round of human misery. However if one reads history, one is given pause.

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❤️Violet is Pissed 🖤's avatar

It’s cult tactics in mind control. It’s very well described in Steven Hassan’s book The Cult of Trump. It’s used by religion as well as human traffickers, oh I don’t know, like Epstein.

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Meghan Blackwell's avatar

Although I agree with the sentiment, I fear that if the better ones quit, we are left with the sadistic ones who thrive on others’ pain. The fact that some have moral conflicts with what they’re doing is good. Hopefully that feeling spreads to more. Plus we know this admin is not above hiring unqualified minions to do their bidding.

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Sharliegram's avatar

Citizens Ice patrols to patrol Ice.

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Bournetothink's avatar

I was going to say that! If you don’t like what’s happening, QUIT! As I tell my students, be a leader, not a follower. Followers end up getting into trouble!🤦‍♀️

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Bonnie Council's avatar

There is no way ICE can continue trying to arrest trump's impossible quota of 3000 per day without taking in a lot of innocent people. There is no way there are 3000/day "bad guys." So naturally they're getting frustrated and burning out. Good. Better they all quit and save their sanity (and their souls) than try to satisfy the hunger of cruelly insatiable people like trump, Homan, Miller, Vought, Bove and Nome.

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Bournetothink's avatar

They’re dealing with a lot of pushback from so many. I’m sure they’re going home wondering what the heck they’re doing. Also, many ICE agents are Latinos. I hope they’re realizing that they’re next!

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Cynthia H Lee's avatar

ILLEGAL CRIMINAL Expansion

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Richard Waddell's avatar

Yes. As a friend has said, 'Recovery is real,' and this can apply to sanity, morals, sobriety, self-esteem - anything. Many times a person has to experience hitting rock bottom.

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Indie's avatar

I no longer trust anyone in a uniform or a suit

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Especially when their head is covered, their mouth and nose is covered with the mask, and they wear sunglasses you can’t see through. They’re hiding because they know what they’re doing is wrong. It’s fucking UN American and it’s traitorous Nuremberg Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Nuremberg Nuremberg

just reminding everybody of Nuremberg.💪🏼🇺🇸❤️

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Grammy’s House's avatar

And yet we keep tuning in to watch. When do we do something MORE? Oh yeah, July 17th Good Trouble…planned rally. We need unplanned rally’s every single DAY

Whose streets? Our streets there is power in numbers

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Grammy’s House's avatar

I stopped trusting men in uniform when I left the Navy. Hegseth and Chucky fat head Vance times a million…

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Sharon Amos's avatar

Or any other government official

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Juli Alvarez's avatar

100%

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Kevin's avatar

ICE has no reason to take pride in what they are doing.

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

Actually the ICE people that were there already were trained to go after criminals not everybody else. Now they are losing the respect for their job that they once thought was a legitimate occupation. My only worry is that if they quit who's left! Noem probably has a long list of miscreants that are willing to bow down to trumps idea of arrest and deport. To hell with their rights. He'll rename the country MAR A LARGO any-day now.

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LynseyFS's avatar

"A long list of miscreants" indeed, starting with >1500 Jan. 6th pardonees to choose from ... God help us

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Daisy's avatar

Must havr "Trump" in the name so Trump Red Land maybe.

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

“You may be right, I maybe crazy.” This “lunatic” is looking only after number one! HIMSELF. No body of land or prestige will satisfy his need to be that NUMBER ONE! Turning him into a joke is dangerous. That’s how he fooled so many people into believing he was just like them! Be careful of this man because he has so many reasons to stay in power this time. He won’t go quietly if he’ll go at all. Be aware that his DOGE bros have your info from birth until death in their files! You cannot escape a person who decides to use that info. Thats how Putin came to power. Knowing everything about everyone. I find it amusing that the MEGA KLAN voted for him because they believed the other party were “elitist!” Well now they have to crawl on bended knee for an audience with him.

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Nicole L's avatar

I'd hope they are miserable. My god! It would be great if they all quit.

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Grammy’s House's avatar

I pray the ICE officers never sleep again and when they do night terrors haunt them. Shouldn’t have taken the job. Quit now!!!

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MagatsAreSubhuman's avatar

Who gives a shit about how those subhumans in the ICEGestapo feel. If they were loyal Americans they would mutiny and shoot the orange Moscow puppet themselves.

In fact, low morale is how most munities start.

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The Nasty Canadian's avatar

Thank you for all your hard work Aaron! And HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOO DENG 😭 💕

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Anne Crothers's avatar

I am liking the good news portion--it helps. Thanks, Aaron.

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Elizabeth's avatar

Good. Low morale and hopefully they quit.

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Nicole L's avatar

We all need to hope Bove is NOT confirmed. It was be awful. Thank God for the whistle blower.

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Cat's avatar

Thanks for the reminder! Seriously, information overload!!

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Dianne Bryant's avatar

I feel certain Kristi Noem did not send search and rescue until the whole urgency is over in accordance with all of trumps orders

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Jane's avatar

I like the good news stories at the end! Thanks for the smile.

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Craig Higham's avatar

Agree!

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Mary's avatar

Imagine having ICE on your CV / resume.

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Michael's avatar

Oh geez! That’s a new level.

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Toncar's avatar

As it should they are now a terrorist group kidnapped people!

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Amanda Sheehan's avatar

ICE is miserable? Boohoo tell that to the families whose lives are ruined and shattered… stupid fucks

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Nancy Sutherland's avatar

They need to stop doing these jobs! Refuse to behave in this way.

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