Under Trump, ICE Agents Actually Feel Free To Do Their JobsNothing special. Just following the law. How refreshing... Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents say that under the new Trump administration, they’ve been empowered to carry out their jobs, instead of being punished for insubordination and told not to arrest illegals.
The New York Times interviewed 17 ICE agents across the country to talk about how the new atmosphere created under the Trump administration has allowed them to properly deport illegals. The Times described the agency under Trump as a “whirlwind of activity.â€
“Before, we used to be told, ‘You can’t arrest those people,’ and we’d be disciplined for being insubordinate if we did,†said one ICE agent, who had worked with the agency for 10 years. “Now those people are priorities again. And there are a lot of them here.â€