The Washington Examiner reports on the latest drama at DHS:
At a time when collaboration is necessary to undertake President Donald Trump’s mass deportation goals, trust has eroded as some high-ranking employees feel they are being closely monitored by the White House over how they are carrying out arrest operations of illegal immigrants.
“They’ve been threatened, told they’re watching their emails and texts and Signals,” the first official said. “That’s what is horrible about things right now. It’s a fearful environment. Everybody in leadership is afraid. … There’s no morale. Everybody is demoralized.”
ICE’s top 50 field officials were given roughly a week’s notice of an emergency meeting in Washington.
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“Miller came in there and eviscerated everyone. ‘You guys aren’t doing a good job. You’re horrible leaders.’ He just ripped into everybody. He had nothing positive to say about anybody, shot morale down,” said the first official, who spoke with those in the room that day.
“Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. ‘Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?’” the official recited.
One of the ERO officials in attendance stood up and stated that the Department of Homeland Security and the White House had publicly messaged about targeting criminal illegal immigrants, and therefore, ICE was targeting them, and not the general illegal immigration population. “Miller said, ‘What do you mean you’re going after criminals?’ Miller got into a little bit of a pissing contest. ‘That’s what Tom Homan says every time he’s on TV: ‘We’re going after criminals,’” the ICE official told Miller, according to the first official.
Miller says he wants 3,000 arrests minimum, every day.
According to the article heads are rolling at ICE because they are disappointing Commandante Miller.
Apparently, the ICE officers assigned to do the rousting aren’t happy in their work. It’s boring and menial and they think they are being asked to do things that are “below their pay grade.” This report doesn’t suggest that any of them are unhappy with their task of arresting children and law abiding citizens, many of whom have been in the country for many years, though. They just find the whole thing dull.
They are no doubt looking forward to the Big Beautiful $45,000 bonus in the Big Beautiful Bill though. And the massive influx of cash for the deportation camps and other goodies will certainly be welcome.
Miller is a psychopath and a pathological liar. He said that the all the immigrants who are being rounded up are those that Biden allegedly allowed into the country illegally. That is not true. They are picking off the easiest prey, the law abiding citizens who have been living in the open, doing everything required of any good citizen, in the hopes that they might some day attain legal status. And now that the Supremes have allowed the deportation of the 500,000 who are in the country working under Temporary Protected Status, these lazy ICE officers will have a bunch of new easy pickings.
But never say it isn’t exactly what they promised. Here’s Stephen Miller gleefully making it clear last September:
The mass deportation operation will be a “bloody story,” Trump said last weekend. And key advisers have promised a historic infrastructure project to churn people out of the country.
The camps will be built “on open land in Texas near the border” and should have the capacity to house as many as 70,000 people, which would double the United States’ current immigrant detention capacity, Stephen Miller, the main point man on immigration in Trump’s White House, said last year. In multiple interviews, Miller has gleefully described daily flights out of the camps to all corners of the world, an undertaking he said would be “greater than any national infrastructure project” in American history.
Right now immigrants are being held in facilities around the country but they are maxed out. They simply have to build more prisons and there are private companies lining up for those contracts. They get paid by the body. The more they can stuff inside the more money they make.
The whole thing is sick.