Acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons has been hospitalized at least twice for stress-related issues as he has carried out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda — strain that has caused him to struggle to make key decisions for the agency, according to two current and two former administration officials.

The hospitalizations took place over the last seven months. In one incident in December, Lyons’ security detail drove him to a hospital in Washington and he was admitted overnight, according to one former and two current administration officials. During an episode in September, the three people said Lyons was hospitalized for at least one night.

In a separate incident in Los Angeles over the summer, Lyons became so distressed when ICE agents couldn’t locate a migrant on their target list after a ride along with top administration officials that one of his bodyguards took a portable defibrillator from a nearby government office to Lyons in case he needed medical intervention, according to one current and one former official.

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      Lyons became so distressed when ICE agents couldn’t locate a migrant on their target list after a ride along with top administration officials

      Probably doesn’t think about that

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    <3 I love this for him. May the rest of the administration feel this as well.

    :EDIT: Also, here is proof that protestations and harassment is effective. Remove their peace. Frustrate their efforts. Feel no pity, at any point they could just choose NOT to be monsters. They choose to be scumbags every day they wake up and go to work.

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    Oh NO! We NEED to Protect Babies! Toddlers! Children! Anyone UNDER 21! Community Members! Americans! Small Business Owners! Communities! Taxpayer funded Murderers and Child Rapists!

    -Pro Life Republicans!

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      Damn dude, you get banned in too many places for spreading the good ol Republican TRUTH? Why 12d account?

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    Poor guy, must be so difficult for him…think of how hard it is for him to sick goons on people and ask them to shoot people in the head.

    It’s probably actually scarier for him than it is for the people getting harassed… /s

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    one of his bodyguards took a portable defibrillator from a nearby government office to Lyons in case he needed medical intervention

    They took a defibrillator when he didn’t need it. I hope wherever they took it from doesn’t have a medical emergency.

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      Its possible it was part of a general supply depot for such things, and not just a singular unit meant to supply just that office.

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    This is actually a very; very sad place for America to be. Apart from the acting ICE head being in this predicament, how many really decent heads of American departments are in the same situation because of legitimate moral and personal philosophy conflicts with their direct orders under the Trump regime? If (when) this becomes a known problematic issue with the top staff in the military, how quickly will military morale and discipline change?

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      Why would you feel bad for him? He is stressed because trump is pressuring him to imprison more legal and non-legal immigrants and he can’t come up with the numbers.

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        Apart from the acting ICE head being in this predicament

        They don’t. They feel bad for the good government workers we don’t hear about having these levels of stress over moral conflicts with the administration.