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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

ICE. There is a cruelty for the sake of cruelty here that I don't see there.

I wonder how that works with a new administration- like the line workers ("agents?") are still there from Obama's time. My little gov agency doesn't really change day to day because the same people are making the same decisions- there may be some high level emphasis change, but you'd be hard pressed to see it.

But ICE: here you were working to do a job you thought good and necessary going back for a few decades, and suddenly you get orders to start tearing families apart? How does an agency geek up its civil servants to suddenly become cruel when they were not so much cruel the day before the new administration? Or is it like cops, "fucking aye, I've been waiting for the gloves to taken off!"