“Operation At Large,” a nationwide, ICE-led plan already underway to ramp up arrests of unauthorized immigrants, includes more than 5,000 personnel from across federal law enforcement agencies and up to 21,000 National Guard troops, according to an operation plan described to NBC News by three sources with knowledge of the personnel allocations who detailed the previously unreported plans.
Drawing those numbers from other law enforcement agencies, though, has been a source of tension among some officials, who feel they have been taken off other core national security missions, according to three additional law enforcement and military officials. Like others interviewed for this article, they requested anonymity in order to share sensitive information.
It is the latest example of how President Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations is reshaping federal law enforcement as officials shift resources toward immigration-related cases — including nonviolent administrative offenses — leaving less time and attention for other types of criminal investigations.
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ICE was formed in 2002, following the attacks which destroyed the World Trade Center. Like basically everything the US did in the wake of that attack (e.g. Patriot Act) this has been an absolute disaster and should be rolled back.
Fuck ICE.
Fuck Trump. He started this whole shit show.
Just an authoritarian president building a loyalist private police force. Nothing to see here.
