The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.
  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
    18·
    9 days ago

    Bad title. He’s still employed, he was just removed from the public. They’re waiting out his upcoming retirement.

    Man should be in prison, not a cushy desk job

  • Curious_Canid@piefed.caEnglish
    8·
    9 days ago

    Trump has always been happy to throw underlings under the bus. Nothing will change until Trump and those directly under him are replaced.

  • melsaskca
    6·
    8 days ago

    Nah. They sent him home to retire. Kind of like an extreme version of suspended, but with full pay.

    • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
      121·
      9 days ago

      No, He was fired because he said that Pretti’s Second Amendment rights were invalid. MAGA can justify any amount of murder, but you start saying that people can’t carry guns and you’re going to lose support.

      They were losing the base, so they turn on him and Noem and then they can pretend that anything bad was down to those two and the base can go back to fully supporting the administration and ICE

  • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 days ago

    They just cycled a key figure out of public view. This is PR strategy - when criticism against a particular organization or any of its key figure(s) reaches a certain point, replace some key figures.

    Tr;dr: the frogs in the pot all cheer as the cook is replaced and their replacement turns down the hob a touch.

    People tend to see key figures as representative of entire organizations, e.g., there are so many people who see removing Trump as being a solution despite him being a clear symptom of the problem. Letting some take a fall is a PR win grab bag: many people interpret the “punishment” of a few people as being applied to the whole organization and it suggests reform and atonement without actually changing anything substantial. Then the new figures start and optionally say they’re changing strategies for future improvement - “it’ll work but it takes time, just trust me bro.”

    As long as this round of musical chairs tells a story that enough critics want to hear, enough mounting critical pressure is reduced for the cycle to continue a bit longer.