ICE is becoming so brutal under Trump that an agent went public with concerns to New Yorker.

[kpete]

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-veteran-ice-agent-disillusioned-with-the-trump-era-speaks-out

Link to tweet

[Squinch]

1. "The whole idea is targeting kids." Vile, disgusting people, these Republicans.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I read that article-- ICE is out of control, and no one seems to care.

[Hekate]

4. White nationalism: it's what they voted for & this is one of its faces

[barbtries]

6. yep.

it's another sign of the decline of the republic. very sad.

[Hortensis]

8. If true, kind of a MASSIVE, TRAGIC understatement?

How about huge NO! instead?

[not fooled]

16. Yep

The plan is to turn the U.S. white majority again by kicking out the brown people + preventing white women from having abortions.

No kidding, the Nazis running the country think they can turn the U.S.A. white again.

So of course young brown people entering their childbearing years would be prime targets for deportation.

What a bunch of racist crackpots we have plotting and scheming.

[Hortensis]

9. The only ones we can SEE care are ourselves.

If "no one" is or "they" are not, it means the person thinking that is not. The depth of our caring, or shallow lack of it, should not lead us to assume everyone else is like us.

All around America groups, notably including many from churches liberal and conservative, are actively opposing this. Some people have that advantage of already belonging to organized groups with progressive (i.e., taking action to solve problems) traditions. So they became active immediately and know it's wrong that "nobody" is doing anything.

My husband and I are just giving money right now to two important groups battling this, not hiding anyone in the basement or attending marches. Not nearly proportional to this tragedy, true, but it's not nothing either, and I recommend at least that to others isolated from the action so they also can know it's not true that "they" are doing nothing.

[hunter]

3. If a person is too racist and xenophobic to be an ordinary cop, there's always ICE.

.

[Runningdawg]

5. ICE has taken a play from the book

the government used to get Native Americans to "assimilate", target the children.

[Hortensis]

7. There are still many decent conservatives who wouldn't

approve, or at least be comfortable, with this. And some would actively disapprove. We're having dinner with neighbors tonight, and I'll be dropping this into the conversation. To make sure they are aware.

They have to separate themselves from the dreadful ones. We can't make them, of course, but nd under this kind of leadership, the worst of the deporables are becoming very dreadful. There are some I no longer can speak to, like a pair of sisters who effusively admired the authoritarian takeover in Hungary, knowing the kinds of "solutions" that are too likely to follow, the worst of their character emboldened to take over and present itself for all to see.

[blm]

10. They grabbed a kid in NC who was 2 months from graduating high school after

attending school here since kindergarten.

Disgusting, subhuman behavior is all the GOP offers day in and day out.

[n2doc]

11. When Dems take back the executive branch, they need to do a wholesale cleaning

Starting with ICE. Fire everyone they can and put good people in their place who will work to get a non-toxic culture there.

[Duppers]

12. YES!!!

[Xolodno]

13. Part of it is economic.

The higher the numbers in deportation, arrests, etc. the more more they can claim to Congress they need larger budgets, higher wages, more personal, etc.

It's why their union fights tooth and nail against obviously efficient systems of camera's, drones, etc. along the border and guest worker legislation. But build a stupid wall they know won't have any effect but will obviously come under their jurisdiction of maintenance...they are all for it because it means they get more funding.

[lunamagica]

14. These kids are living in fear. How can this happen in America?

[sandensea]

15. Ethnic cleansing.

King Con has to give his bigots something to let them feel voting him in was worth it.