This came across my news feeds just now…

NEWS: New reporting from POLITICO reveals Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons has been hospitalized multiple times for stress while carrying out Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda.

According to officials, Lyons faced intense pressure from the White House to ramp up deportations, amid reports of heated calls and internal chaos. It is also said that Stephen Miller frequently yells at him on calls. In one incident, he was rushed to the hospital overnight. In another, officials feared he may need emergency intervention on the spot.

I went and looked him up only to find he was born in 1981, almost a decade after I graduated from high school. Is this even the same planet I lived in when I was a young man, let alone a teenage boy. I don’t generally feel old, but for a moment there I really felt the years I’ve lived. I guess sometime soon there won’t be anyone left who remembers the America that was, before Reagan promised us that shining city on the hill.

I know stress. I’ve felt its clutches on me. It’s driven me to tobacco and alcohol and I know it’s shaved years off my life. If what this reporting is saying about you is true Mr. Lyons, Get Out Of There. It isn’t worth it. Whatever it is you think you’re accomplishing in there it’s rotting your soul and killing your body. These aren’t patriotic conservative men, they are the bottom of the human sewer, and if you don’t want to spend your last hour in there with them and be remembered along with them then get out. Go find the better man you can still be, while you still have some hours left.