As Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents embark on countless deportation raids in an effort to meet the White House’s daily arrest quota of 3,000, many officers are becoming completely demoralized, several agents told Nick Miroff with The Atlantic.
So don’t.
If you signed up to stop crime, do that and only that. And I don’t mean “the crime of being here.”
If you’re conducting a legal action with a judicial warrant to detain an actual dangerous criminal, focus everything on getting that one guy.
Anyone else who happens to be in the neighborhood… isn’t.
If you’re sent to raid a business/farm that’s illegally exploiting undocumented immigrants, arrest the exploiter, not the workers.
That goes double if you got a tip about the business, because it’s highly likely the owners themselves sent it in order to quash discontent or unionization.
Have no power to make those decisions? Run slowly, grab loosely, pull your punches and aim any chemicals or less-lethal projectiles wide of any humans. And keep top of mind that they are HUMANS, despite what your reptilian overlords may tell you.
Don’t quit, make them fire you for sabotaging the cruelty.