More from ICE Agent Who Resigned, Rather than Separate Families

From Freedom for Immigrants and former ICE agent, Jordan Dyrdahl-Roberts:

When you learn CPR, one of the things you learn is that before beginning chest compressions, you need to get someone to call 911. If you’re in a crowd, you need to point at a specific person and tell them to do it, because if you say, “Someone call 911,” people will just stand there. It’s not because they are callous. It’s because the more people who are gathered around, the more everyone thinks someone else will do it. Everyone will wait for someone else to take action.

Right now, we need people to act to prevent future tragedies in our immigration system.

But even as things grow more urgent, many people are still waiting for someone else to act because we find ourselves in a massive crowd. Everyone wants things to be better, but they are waiting because obviously someone is going to do something, right?

So this is me, pointing at you, and telling you to act. I’m especially telling you to take action if you find yourself as part of one of the agencies helping commit these atrocities.
If you’re in an immigrant detention facility and you hear the cries of mothers separated from their children, do you feel any pangs of guilt for your part in it?

That’s your call to action.

Are you a border agent, haunted at night by images of people dying in the desert, because you were “just following orders” when you dumped out life-saving water?

That’s your call to action.

Are you an ICE agent worried your coworkers enjoy their job a little too much as they drag a father away from his children?

That’s your call to action. Read more…

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