CBP is a sprawling agency charged with a broad variety of responsibilities. You can possess furious anger at the gestapo-like tactics the Border Patrol have engaged in while also feeling sympathy for the customs agent charged with accurately collecting duties on millions of dollars worth of imports every day and filing the mountains of paperwork that go along with that.

> you'll have to dig very deep to strike any sympathy for the CBP

Not me. They’re ordinary people doing administrative tasks. Most of them have dutifully turned up for work and done their jobs as the law required them to. They’re now being asked to work overtime to fix a mistake they didn’t make.

Just following literally illegal orders.

They didn’t know they were illegal at the time, and no court had ruled they were until literally just last week.

Besides, we’re taking about imposing tariffs, not depriving people of life or liberty. Have some persective.

That’s not true. 2 different courts ruled them illegal months ago. The administration decided to fight it abnd each time they lost.

It certainly would have been prudent for cbp to contemplate this very scenario given their own lawyers predicted it. But let’s be honest, that would have gotten them fired.