Time for an additional entry within the persevering with saga of the U.S. authorities being reassigned to work on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
In the latest improvement, tons of of Division of Homeland Safety staff in jobs unrelated to immigration have been ordered to switch to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol, and the Federal Protecting Service.
You won’t be as acquainted with the final one, which protects federal buildings. That may sound a bit sleepier than working for ICE or CBP, however not today.
Earlier this week, FPS personnel received a memo from DHS senior officers declaring that “the bounds to FPS’s authority off federal property are the sides of the structure on one aspect and necessity on the opposite.”
Huh, what now?
In case that permission slip wasn’t crystal clear, the memo took it one step additional.
“There’s merely no authorized barrier to FPS taking motion off federal property the place an inexpensive nexus to defending that property exists,” it mentioned.
So below the guise of defending federal property, FPS personnel can go off of that property and harm individuals anyway, with no limits to their authority. Nice.
Who’re we even placing in these jobs the place the only real qualification appears to be how a lot violence you’re keen to commit on behalf of the state? Effectively, individuals who did not be part of the federal government for that purpose.
Staff on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company, Federal Emergency Administration Company, Transportation Safety Administration, and the Coast Guard have obtained reassignment notices. They’ve one week to just accept the reassignment or face termination. Upon acceptance, they’ll have 60 days to relocate.
CISA is available in for specific ire right here, as a result of how dare they not acknowledge Trump’s lie that he received the 2020 election? Former CISA Director Chris Krebs is a peak fixation of Trump’s, who stripped Krebs of his safety clearances and ordered a assessment of the final six years of his work to show that he one way or the other was utilizing the federal authorities to censor individuals.
Slashing cybersecurity personnel is certainly a choice when the federal government is going through an enormous assault on its firewalls.
Right here’s DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin with a usually fact-free assertion: “Any notion that DHS is unprepared to deal with threats to our nation due to these realignments is ludicrous, particularly given the abject failure by the hands of CISA within the final administration.”
To be honest, the Trump administration additionally eliminated funding for CISA’s work on supporting state and native officers in election safety efforts, so why not pour that cash into Trump’s limitless assault on immigrants?
DHS staff will be part of the reassigned FBI agents who’ve been diverted from engaged on precise threats to assist assist the lawless violence of this administration.
And who wouldn’t need to get a bit of that, proper?
