Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE - The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust

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• VerbFlow@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and from there to mugshots of the 9/11 attackers. Though the narration was inaudible, I believe that 9/11 was cited to justify the deployment of the men who appeared onscreen next

  No way they’re still worried about 9/11. That was over 20 fucking years ago.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of course these fucking pricks need an emotional support animal.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would take an ice job in a second and likely loose it pretty soon after but I don't think anyone should avoid it. I just can't believe people who take the jobs and then do what they do.

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• rustyfish@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the ICE applicants I spoke with seemed to have an insatiable desire for conflict in line with this hypothesis. All his life, he said, he had hoped to fight wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. He’d joined the army hoping to fulfill this desire. But our foreign wars had wound down by the time of his enlistment, and he never got a chance to fight abroad.

  He said his wife had almost been assaulted in Texas, and when she’d called the police they arrested a man who turned out to be an “illegal alien” and who was promptly deported. He said he’d seen videos of a member of the Taliban getting into an argument at a fast-food restaurant in California (I couldn’t find any evidence of this—not even as a conspiracy), and that he wanted to join ICE to protect his family.

  I am too much of a pussy to go into actual combat, so I have to make up stories about my wifu getting attacked by someone other than her boyfriend and about people being shitty to fast food employees who aren’t white Karens.

  I know this kind of guys. When shit actually hits the fan they are the first to run, shoving over children and elderly.

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  • whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I bet if he bought a plane ticket to Ukraine they’d let him fight. I bet they’d even pay for the ticket.

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• shininghero@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would have dropped one of those ol’ fart juice packets we had as kids and walked away.

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• Carmakazi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the motivation is racism, but few are going to admit that in an interview or questionnaire.

  I think people should stop trying to rehabilitate the image of these assholes. They’re bad people who need to be held accountable for their decisions, all of them.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Justice for their actions would be rehabilitation for society.

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the language of the article does not paint those assholes in a positive light

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