It turns out the border patrollers don’t like it either.

Morale is “plummeting” among federal law enforcement officers tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigration operation, as they complained that [of] long hours, ambitious arrest quotas and hatred from the public, according to reports.

While officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol, overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, said they supported the administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown “disillusioned” with the tactics being implemented by leadership.

At the behest of the monstrosity in the Oval Office.

“You’re not addressing the problem by throwing a 500-pound gorilla into these inner cities,” Oscar Hagelsieb, a former immigration officer and special agent, told the Times. “They’re causing chaos, and unfortunately it’s costing lives.”

But it makes great tv.

I don’t say that in jest. I think that’s absolutely what Trump wants – a show. A brutal sadistic vengeful angry show, every day and all night.

“It’s completely unfair to the agents who have been put in this position,” he added. “There’s only so much they can handle before bad things start to happen.”

Border patrol agents, who generally operate at Ports of entry, have been assisting ICE with raids and deployed to support amid the protests. Top Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino previously described the agency’s tactics of arresting individuals rapidly before protesters can move in as “turn and burn.”

Bovino oversaw operations in Chicago, where agents deployed tear gas in neighborhoods and hit protesters with pepper balls. These tactics were “far outside standard practices in law enforcement,” Gil Kerlikowske, who led Customs and Border Patrol during the Obama administration, told the Times.

But they made great tv for Trump.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced calls to resign after she claimed Pretti “brandished” a weapon before an officer with Border Patrol “fired defensive shots.” The narrative has been undercut in video footage of the incident.

Current and former ICE officials who spoke with the outlet anonymously said they were “unhappy with the sharp rhetoric” coming from top White House and Homeland Security officials. One agent with the department told the Times that he had “always given the benefit of the doubt to the government in these situations,” but that he now no longer believed “any of the statements they put out anymore.”

“We lost all trust,” a current ICE official added. “I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.” Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin also reported “extreme frustration” in the department over “some of the claims & narratives DHS pushed in the aftermath of the shooting.”

“These sources say this messaging from DHS officials has been catastrophic from a PR and morale perspective, as it is eroding trust and credibility,” Melugin reported Sunday.

But it’s all worth it because Trump likes a show.