It's time for another entry in the ongoing saga of the US government being relegated to the job of cracking down on immigration by President Donald Trump.
In recent events, hundreds of Department of Homeland Security employees in non-immigration-related positions were ordered transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol and the Federal Protective Service.
You may not be as familiar with the latter, which protects federal buildings. It might seem a little sleepier than working for ICE or CBP, but not these days.
Earlier this week, FPS officers received a memo from senior DHS officials stating that “the limits on FPS authority over federal property are constitutional limits on the one hand and necessity on the other.”
Ha, what now?
In case the resolution wasn't crystal clear, the note took it one step further.
“There is simply no legal barrier to the FSIN taking action on federal property if there is a reasonable connection to the protection of that property,” the statement said.
Thus, under the guise of protecting federal property, FPS officers can leave this property and harm people in any way, without any restrictions on their powers. Big.
Who do we even appoint to these positions where the only requirement is how much violence you are willing to commit on behalf of the state? Well, the people who did it No join the government for this reason.
Employees of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard were notified of the reassignment. They have one week to agree to a new appointment or dismissal. After acceptance they will have 60 days run over.
CISA is particularly angry here because how dare they not acknowledge Trump's lie that he won the 2020 election? Former CISA Director Chris Krebs is an extreme view of Trump, who Krebs section about his security clearance and ordered an audit of his last six years of work to prove that he was somehow using the federal government to censor people.
Reduction of cybersecurity personnel this is of course a choice when the government faces a massive attack on its firewalls.
Here's Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Trisha McLaughlin with a typical statement devoid of facts: “Any notion that the Department of Homeland Security is unprepared to deal with threats to our country due to these reorganizations is laughable, especially given the abject failure of CISA under the last administration.”
Frankly, the Trump administration also funding stopped for CISA's work supporting state and local officials in election security efforts, so why not pour that money into Trump's endless attacks on immigrants?
DHS employees will join reassigned FBI agents who have been diverted from working on real threats to help support the lawless violence of the current administration.
And who wouldn't want a piece of that, right?
