ICE wants to be an intelligence agency under Trump
Source: Daily Beast
Immigration enforcers have tried for years to get access to spy agency secrets. Civil libertarians call the prospect frankly terrifyingand a lot more realistic under Trump.
Betsy Woodruff
BETSY WOODRUFF
Officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are actively exploring joining the U.S. Intelligence Community, The Daily Beast has learned.
The effort is helmed by a small cohort of career Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, and has been underway since the Obama administration, according to an ICE official familiar with the matter.
Internal advocates for joining the Americas spy agenciesknown as the Intelligence Community or the ICfocus on the potential benefits to the agencys work on counterproliferation, money laundering, counterterror, and cybercrime. The official added that joining the IC could also be useful for the agencys immigration enforcement workin particular, their efforts to find and arrest undocumented immigrants with criminal arrest warrants (known in ICE as fugitive aliens).
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dchill
(38,556 posts)so Trump will definitely make it.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)This is what dictatorships do, they slowly start building their own "security" and "intelligence" apparatus which are loyal to no one but the "leader", then they start taking money away from those organizations that are loyal to the citizenry, they deteriorate the services that have been in place for many years, such as the FBI, CIA, even police departments, they corrupt the military, the judicial system, and everything that keeps a democracy healthy, they make the system sick, create total chaos.
Muller better hurry because these evil bastards move very fast, they are not stupid as many people tend to think, they are just evil.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)and the FBI and DOJ is giving you push back...........get ICE to do it.
Welcome to the the modern day US version of the Geheime Staatspolizei.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)...for the indiscretions of their agents, absolutely not! ICE would thankfully not be as disciplined as the Schutzstaffel, but then again the SS never had the internet.
Roy Rolling
(6,941 posts)The POTUS is getting them a wall instead.
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Perseus
(4,341 posts)All republican presidencies have increased the size of government, they are big in cronyism.
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SCVDem
(5,103 posts)what their uniforms will look like.
I bet they even have a snappy salute!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,468 posts)IronLionZion
(45,550 posts)The worst part of this idea is how many people think they'll limit it to undocumented immigrants. Nope! They refused to believe a US president's documents. They refuse to believe minorities can be US citizens. When they come for white liberals, there will be no one left.
If this is such a great idea, ask the NRA why they militantly oppose having any type of registry for gun owners or even an effective criminal background check system or data collected on gun deaths.
You'll see. ICE will find and arrest American born US citizens.