Time for one more 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 workers in jobs unrelated to immigration have been ordered to switch to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol, and the Federal Protecting Service.
A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
You won’t be as conversant in the final one, which protects federal buildings. That may sound a bit sleepier than working for ICE or CBP, however not lately.
Earlier this week, FPS personnel obtained a memo from DHS senior officers declaring that “the limits to FPS’s authority off federal property are the edges of the constitution on one side and necessity on the other.”
Huh, what now?
In case that permission slip wasn’t crystal clear, the memo took it one step additional.
“There is simply no legal barrier to FPS taking action off federal property where a reasonable nexus to protecting that property exists,” it mentioned.
So underneath the guise of defending federal property, FPS personnel can go off of that property and damage folks 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 didn’t be a part of the federal government for that motive.
Workers 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 overview of the final six years of his work to show that he one way or the other was utilizing the federal authorities to censor folks.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin
Slashing cybersecurity personnel is definitely a alternative when the federal government is dealing with 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 handle threats to our nation because of these realignments is ludicrous, especially given the abject failure at the hands of CISA in the last administration.”
To be truthful, the Trump administration additionally eradicated funding for CISA’s work on supporting state and native officers in election safety efforts, so why not pour that cash into Trump’s infinite assault on immigrants?
DHS workers will be a part of the reassigned FBI brokers who’ve been diverted from engaged on precise threats to assist help the lawless violence of this administration.
And who wouldn’t wish to get a bit of that, proper?
