I don't doubt this, but it's interesting that "morale" is only explicitly invoked when it's down. I don't recall the Trump admin, or its supporters, explicitly saying during his presidency that morale at ICE was up, or high. (The people saying that were generally criticizing it.)
https://twitter.com/MHackman/status/1356970924134776836
To be clear the “morale is only invoked when it’s down because the line employees don’t agree with the policies” thing is also 100 percent true on the dovish side of the bureaucracy, e.g. refugee and asylum officers under Trump.
!! I stand corrected: When Homan left ICE in 2018, then-Secretary Nielsen noted that morale at the agency was at its highest since 2010. dhs.gov/blog/2018/04/3…
The 2010 date is interesting to me personally, as that's the year the ICE union issued a vote of no-confidence in then-Director John Morton for issuing a first-of-its-kind memo instructing agents to de/prioritize certain types of unauthorized immigrants in enforcement.
So depending on timing, either morale was high _despite_ a total lack of confidence in leadership, or morale was high and then suffered a sudden and catastrophic turnaround from which it didn't recover until a year after Trump came into office.
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