How low is morale at ICE?

How low is morale at ICE? In a 2014 survey of employee satisfaction and commitment, Immigration and Customs Enforcement came in tied for dead last out of 315 federal agencies.

This post was last modified on January 26, 2021

J.P. Travis: Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1976 graduate of University of Michigan, father, grandfather, husband, founder and CEO of Travelyn Publishing (http://www.travelynpublishing.com/), and passionate anti-government believer in individual liberty.

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  • When you find the inter agencies of your country at each others throat....maybe it's time to question the 'leadership' of your country.

    Of course we have no question of said 'leadership', rather, we have the constantly, nagging question of when this present 'leadership' will be squashed like the pestilence that it is.

  • You mean that just because they have a dangerous job and their management from first level supervisor to the very top will throw their ass under a bus in a second in order even if they have done exctly what they are spoosed to. Your saying this would cause a morale problem. Whoda thunk it? This situation doesnt sound any different than the police officers in any large city where the politically appointed chief, the mayor, and on up the ladder will throw you under the bus in a second simply to appease the continuously aggrieved scum bags.

          • ICE does not collect your customs duties, sorry:

            "Two agencies that frequently get confused in the context of immigration are US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)... Although both agencies (along with several other US agencies) are involved in immigration, these agencies play different roles in different geographic locations. CBP enforces immigration law along all US ports of entry, while ICE plays an investigative role within the US... CBP is charged with enforcing immigration, customs and agriculture laws... ICE is the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security that employs more than 20,000 officers placed in offices in all 50 states and in 48 foreign countries... ICE also enforces the US’s immigration laws by ensuring that removable aliens from the US are deported."

            https://www.legallanguage.com/legal-articles/immigration-agencies-cbp-ice/

            The important part in the description of ICE's mission is the word "deported" because that's the part the Obama administration refuses to do, in direct contradiction of his responsibility as chief executive.

          • Not kicking up dust, asking; on lunch break. Which agency was it that raided the guitar maker in Tennessee(?). Can't remember off the top and no time to search, somebody here will know.

          • I don't want to look it up either, but I thought the agency that got the ball rolling was the Fish and Wildlife Service, believe it or not. They probably enlisted help from CBP or somebody else with a lot of guns because FWS doesn't have that much firepower.

          • Just checked on the way out the door after my sammich. wtf does F&WS have to do with importing exotic wood? Not saying you're wrong, but that makes some warped kind of sense, they borrowed a SWAT team to raid the place :P lmao

          • No, I was laughing because it seemed so over the top that they would do it. Guess i must be an extremist. (according to the SPLC)

          • Gee, you mean politically connected UNIONS were behind this? Who would have thunk it? Obama was trying to pay back his Union buddies? I can't imagine that kind of corruption exists in the DNC! :roll:

          • Because the trees the wood came from are endangered? Or something like that. Your next question: why is a U.S. federal agency worrying about shit that is endangered in other countries? I don't know. Makes no sense. If India wants to cut down some trees and use the wood to make guitars, seems to me that should be India's business, not a U.S. concern.

          • Quote: ICE also enforces the US’s immigration laws by ensuring that removable aliens from the US are deported.”

            That's a hoot....

          • Yeah. So what is your mission when the president doesn't let you do your assigned task? What a surprise their morale is low.

          • That would be almost as bad as working for General Motors, and not being allowed to build a functional vehicle.

          • Sweetheart,

            I deal more with the scumbags at ICE(customs) than you can even imagine.

            Customs exists to collect money for their government overlords(Tariffs and Duties) and to protect the politically connected industries that don't want or can't handle competition.

          • Don't patronize me. I am not your "sweetheart." I am an intelligent, educated woman with more experience in more fields than you could ever imagine, or you wouldn't have responded as you have. Your responses not only to me, but to anyone who tried to correct your delusional thinking shows you areabout as conserpvative as Michellle Obama. She refuses to see facts as well.

          • Keep on rating my posts down to have then disappear.

            All it proves is that you are all not true conservatives and are just Fascist like the other Liberals.

            If you believe that you are right than you would would debate me openly. By silencing me you just prove your beliefs are based on false premises.

          • Ice ICE baby... it's called Immigration, Customs Enforcement for a fucking reason. Actually, technically you're all wrong (I looked it up! the enforcement of illegals and checking imports of fruit at the airport are different "purviews", imagine that!)

            So shut up! until after Fing CHRISTMAS!

            Come New Year you can all have at it...

          • We don't silence you. The sight automatically hides comments that receive 3 more DT's than UT's. We aren't oing to agree with your drivel just to keep.you from being hidden. Anyone interested can still read your responses anyway.

          • Then, maybe you should know what the hell you're talking about before you spout off like an idiot.
            You may deal with customs all the time, I used to when I was a truck driver and pulled containers off the piers in NJ and NY, but ICE has NOTHING to do with actual customs inspections or tariffs.
            I notice you completely avoided JP's post here:
            https://www.ihatethemedia.com/how-low-is-morale-at-ice/comment-page-1#comment-405770
            That addressed your confusion and stupidity.
            Come back when you have something that makes sense.

          • Good grief. Not only did I provide a link proving you wrong, I quoted a bog glob of it so you wouldn't even have to click on the link if you didn't want. I spent time on it. Silly me.

          • What about JPs post?

            It doesn't address anything I have said here. ICE, Like most Federal Agencies, exist to protect politically connected industries and generate revenue.

          • Yes, we all know that. Customs isn't often in a jailhouse picking up a convicted rapist. Different people.

  • Like that asshole Quagmire, or one of his RINO friends care, they all have armed security guards.

  • I talked to a couple guys from ICE transporting a Illegal Alien rape suspect. (imagine that???) They both said they have applied at other agencies outside the federal government because the people who run ICE are "Sewage Suckers".. (their words) Translation....Shit eaters run the place.

  • So then, they rate somewhere around the number for absolute zero (−459.67° on the Fahrenheit scale).

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