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The answer is simple, but uncomfortable. Many of them are radicalized white supremacists who relish doing this kind of stuff, especially now that they have institutional support.

The USA should break up ICE. ERO (Trumps SS) should be stay in ice, the name is simply burned and HSI should be indipendent. HSI is focused on actual crimes committed against people, but bundled with ERO makes even them uncormfotable at least since they need trust from the community that is broken by ERO.

Most of the new ICE agents are just militia members in government clothing. Now they get paid to do what they've been doing before.

Fun fact, most every adult male citizen under the age of 45 is militia by statute.