A massive union that represents some of President Donald Trump's immigration agents called on two of the administration's top officials to resign following the killing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis over the weekend. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 820,000...
  • ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works
    82·
    6 days ago

    “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them," AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in a statement.

    “Public reporting has established that Mr. Miller is the driving force behind the administration’s harsh immigration agenda," he continued. “He personally directed its implementation and used high-pressure tactics to force compliance across the federal government. These were not abstract policy choices. They were imposed from the top and enforced without regard for the consequences.”

  • BanMe@lemmy.world
    33·
    6 days ago

    Yes, but also let’s be careful about scapegoating when the entire administration is to blame. It’s not like their removal will make fascism go away, it’ll just be less obnoxious, more easy to ignore.

    In for a penny, in for a pound, they all must go.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 days ago

      Not just go, these people are covering up crimes and conspiring to create conditions where more crimes will occur. They need to go to jail.

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
    33·
    6 days ago

    It’s something (words – maybe not ‘something’ in these times). But will the union demand their members to strike? I mean, that’s the most (only) meaningful action a Union can do; it’s sort of what they’re for, right? Right?

    • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      6 days ago

      It’s a felony for federal workers to strike. Kinda makes you wonder why federal employees even have unions, but that’s the capitalist hellscape we live in…

      • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
        12·
        6 days ago

        I am outside the US so I didn’t know this. So… Unions, whose biggest and perhaps only effective weapon against exploitation, the strike, cannot, by law, call for a strike. And it’s a federal offense for federal workers to do so?

        Wow. Just Wow. Why even have a union?

        • Mirshe@lemmy.world
          25·
          6 days ago

          The last time federal workers went on strike, Reagan fired every air traffic controller. We’re still trying to recover from THAT, 40 years on.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 days ago

          Unions can strike. Unions of critical services workers, like air traffic control and police, can not legally. This is the first time I read that federal employees can not.

          Unions can still be useful, even if their most powerful tool is taken away.

      • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        5 days ago

        It’s a felony for federal workers to strike.

        “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

        Felony, in a lawless land? Break your chains.

      • in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        They can still do a work slowdown. Have just enough folk call in sick. Also this gives voice to what could become a national general strike. They’re also directly calling out Steven Miller so hopefully that embarrasses the administration enough to oust him from his military base accommodations.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      5 days ago

      But will the union demand their members to strike? I mean, that’s the most (only) meaningful action a Union can do; it’s sort of what they’re for, right? Right?

      Do you think strikes are the only thing unions do?

  • ExLisperA
    16·
    6 days ago

    Its The American Federation of Government Employees. Title makes it sound like it’s a union representing Border Patrol agents. It’s not. It’s representing all federal employees who obviously are not happy with the current administration because of massive layoffs and the shutdown.