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ICE Agents in Despair Under Stephen Miller's Impossible Orders
A new report from The Atlantic's Nick Miroff finds morale at Immigration and Customs Enforcement is suffering as the agency, under the direction of President Trump and Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller, targets undocumented immigrants who haven't committed crimes. While the Trump administration may claim its deportation campaign prioritizes violent criminals and gang members, in reality, it has focused on arresting noncriminals, evidently to hit quotas passed down by Trump and Miller. And while the administration may claim ICE agents are happier than ever, Miroff's report—based on conversations with 12 current and former ICE personnel—shows that the change is frustrating many agents and officers. One ICE veteran finds the job so 'infuriating' that the agent is considering quitting. 'No drug cases, no human trafficking, no child exploitation,' said the agent, who complained about having to focus instead on 'arresting gardeners.' A former agent told Miroff that 'morale is in the crapper,' and 'even those that are gung ho about the mission aren't happy with how they are asking to execute it—the quotas and the shift to the low-hanging fruit to make the numbers.' Another former ICE official suggested that this shift is vindicating criticisms the agency has faced in the past, observing, 'What we're seeing now is what, for many years, we were accused of being, and could always safely say, 'We don't do that.'' One of Miroff's interviewees was Adam Boyd, a young attorney who resigned from the agency's legal department because it's no longer focused on 'protecting the homeland from threats.' Instead, he said, 'It became a contest of how many deportations could be reported to Stephen Miller by December.' Boyd told Miroff: 'We still need good attorneys at ICE. There are drug traffickers and national-security threats and human-rights violators in our country who need to be dealt with. But we are now focusing on numbers over all else.' One former ICE official said that there are now 'national-security and public-safety threats that are not being addressed,' as the agency moves staff from its Homeland Security Investigations division, focused largely on transnational crime, to its Enforcement and Removal Operations division—a move that many perceive as retaliation for HSI in recent years distancing itself from the agency's deportation arm. When Miller issued his demand for 3,000 arrests per day, he reportedly steamrolled any veteran officials who dared to speak up about its impracticality, which has led many to keep silent since then for fear of drawing his ire, Miroff writes. This means that 'no one is saying, 'This is not obtainable,'' an ICE official told him. 'The answer is just to keep banging the [ICE rank-and-file] and tell [them] they suck. It's just not a good atmosphere.'
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ICE Is So Out of Control, They Tried to Raid a Kids' Baseball Practice
Then they came for the children: even in self-designated sanctuary cities such as Manhattan, apparently no one is safe from the ire of federal immigration agents under the Trump administration. Youman Wilder, a baseball coach for middle and high school students, was leading a group of 11 kids through batting cage practice near 72nd Street in Riverside Park last month when he caught ICE agents interrogating some of the minors. 'I go over quickly and the agents are asking the kids inappropriate things like where they are from, their country of origin, so I say, 'Whoa, whoa,' and I tell the officers that their questions are inappropriate, and that I'm going to tell my kids not to answer them,' Wilder told the West Side Rag. Wilder said the officers identified themselves as ICE agents, were armed with guns and tasers, and had 'ICE' printed across the front of their tactical vests. The coach—who received his master's degree in law—told the kids that they didn't need to answer the agents' questions, instructing them to instead line up on the opposite side of the batting cages. But ICE didn't like that: Wilder said that's when one of the agents raised their voice at him, accusing him of being a 'YouTube lawyer.' 'I said no, I just know how the Constitution works,' Wilder told Eyewitness News. But the agents continued to threaten him, per Wilder, talking about cuffing the coach and openly questioning what the kids would 'have to lose by answering' if they were in the U.S. legally. 'I told them that they still have their Fifth and Fourth Amendment rights, and that they don't have to speak to you or help with any investigation,' Wilder told the Rag. All the kids, according to Wilder, were born in the U.S. and are U.S. citizens, born to parents from Africa, South America, and Mexico. 'It's all about civics. If you don't know your rights, they will trample on them,' Wilder told the Rag. The coach also expressed his shock and dismay at the amount of people who watched the interaction but failed to intervene. 'There were people watching and the agents were telling them to move back, that they would be arrested for interfering, and not to take pictures,' Wilder told the Rag. 'The worst thing is that the six or seven people who were watching, followed their orders!' 'I never in my life thought this was going to happen in the Upper West Side in New York City,' Wilder told Eyewitness News. 'That whole thing, until it happens to you, you're not aware? It happened to us.' Wilder has since changed the location and practice times for his team, but some kids and their parents have been so rattled by the event that they haven't returned to practice. 'I knew that they could arrest me, but I knew that they couldn't keep me,' he said. 'My whole thing is that I'm African American, and most of my kids are Latino and Black, so it was all about how do I get these kids home. I never raised my voice. I just talked about the law. And I was just focused on how can I get these kids to where they need to go, when they are in my care.' Wilder was 'the only thing that stood between those kids in Riverside Park and a Florida detention center buried deep in the Everglades,' Upper West Side Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal wrote in a newsletter earlier this month. Rosenthal told Eyewitness News that Wilder was right to intervene and had the legal authority to do so. Although President Donald Trump has heaped endless praise on the federal deportation agency, ICE agents have reportedly never been so miserable, forced to primarily detain noncriminal immigrants in order to meet their quota: 3,000 arrests per day, per Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller's demands.
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Tariffs will hit harder in the coming months, with traders growing weary of the trade drama, Morgan Stanley's CIO says
Tariff pain will be felt more acutely in the coming months, Mike Wilson says. The Morgan Stanley CIO predicts three consequences from tariffs that could show up this quarter. Stocks could take a hit as investors wait for more concrete trade deals to materialize, Wilson said. Morgan Stanley's chief investment officer says investors are growing weary of the trade drama, warning that tariffs' negative impacts could start showing up for companies and in markets soon. Mike Wilson, the chief US equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, said he foresaw a slew of consequences stemming from President Donald Trump's tariffs, which could begin to impact markets as soon as the third quarter. Investors have stayed relatively calm so far this week, despite Donald Trump escalating his trade war. The president announced fresh tariffs on more than 20 countries this week, a separate 50% tariff on copper imports, and pushed out his original deadline to August 1. "I would say, 'Here we go again,'" Wilson said, speaking to Bloomberg on Friday about the latest tariff announcements. Here's what Wilson sees ahead. Investors are familiar with Trump's tariff negotiating playbook after seeing the president whipsaw on his trade policy during Liberation Day, Wilson said. "I mean, this is President Trump's style. He goes hard, and then he, you know, he doesn't back off completely, but it's a back-and-forth," Wilson said. But traders hungry for more concrete trade deals could soon grow tired of the drama, Wilson said. Trump — whose team once pushed the idea of 90 trade deals in 90 days — hasn't nailed down many deals with trading partners yet. "That's not going to work forever. Eventually we have to get to some deals," Wilson said. "There will become a point of exhaustion, is the way I like to think about it." Corporations have been shielded from the impact of tariffs so far, thanks to businesses relying on existing inventory to sell products to consumers. But that could change in the next few months, Wilson said. Smaller corporations could be especially affected in third quarter earnings season, he added, as they don't have as much pricing power to be able to pass along the cost of tariffs to consumers. "It hasn't begun to flow through to pricing or margins. But that we think begins to change in the third quarter, and that could be the catalyst, because stocks will react to a hit in margins," he added. Inflation could also begin to creep higher in the third quarter as tariffs finally start to work their way through the economy, Wilson speculated. Tariffs are widely thought to raise inflation, as companies can hike prices to offset the cost of import duties. That could also push out the market's expectations for interest rate cuts, as the Fed will look to keep rates elevated if inflation grows hotter. "Perhaps we get a spike in inflation, which, you know, then causes the Fed to sound more hawkish, and the market will care about that for sure," Wilson added. Read the original article on Business Insider
