Homeland Security Trying to Defend the Focus on Immigration vs Other Crimes….

The NY Times has been on Homeland Security Departments efforts to keep Stephen Miller happy with his push to vacuum up migrants in America….

Miller has been leaning on Homeland boss Noem to increase sweeps to get more detentions and exports of migrants.

The effort has been fought in the courts….

The efforts have become unpopular by the American public….

But continue with new money appropriated by Congress….

The Times focus has been the neglect of the Federal agencies to deal with their actual Federal Law enforcement area’s vs Immigration…

 

Homeland response has been to point to lower crimes…

But?

The Times has dug in and found that yes….

Lower crime numbers might be shown by DHS…

But upon review?

The numbers they have presented in Miller’s defence have BIG holes in them and AGAIN?

Federal law assets taken from their home department’s means OTHER Federal crimes are NOT being dealt with..

 

FBI , ICE , DEA and other agents can’t doing Federal crime investigations if they are running around American cities in flack jackets and military gear with mask’s..

Amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown, special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and seized fewer weapons than they did the previous fiscal year, according to internal government documents reviewed by The New York Times….

The numbers reflect a shift in priorities as top officials at the department pulled special agents off drug, gun and other complex criminal investigations under pressure from the White House to deport more undocumented immigrants, current and former federal officials told The Times.

The impact was clear, with immigration arrests soaring. The number of people arrested by homeland security special agents for civil immigration offenses went from roughly 5,000 to a record of more than 94,500, the data shows.

Among the key figures in the documents:

• Narcotics arrests fell by roughly 11 percent.

• Agents opened 15 percent fewer new investigations into narcotics crimes.

• The number of weapons seized fell dramatically, declining from nearly 41,400 to fewer than 11,200 — a 73 percent drop.

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Overall, the report shows that criminal arrests went up to more than 46,000, a 41 percent rise. The increase was driven in part by several types of investigations often related to immigration, such as human smuggling and trafficking. But roughly 12,000 of the arrests were not categorized by crime type, making it difficult to assess the kinds of cases that accounted for the reported rise.

The Times reported last week that H.S.I.’s investigations into major crimes, including child exploitation and terrorism financing, had faltered after special agents were ordered to assist with the immigration crackdown. Dozens of officials who have worked under the current Trump administration said the shifts had hindered their case work.

The newly disclosed data reveals the extent of the change under H.S.I., which is part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement but generally focuses on criminal investigations involving threats like financial fraud, drug smuggling and sex trafficking, not civil immigration violations. Another component of ICE, called Enforcement and Removal Operations, has typically handled immigration enforcement…

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Tricia McLaughlin, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said The Times was “peddling a false narrative.” She said the report showed that agents had seized more narcotics than the previous year. But the comparison was not clear because the new figure includes some types of substances that were not part of the previous year’s total. Officials did not answer questions about the discrepancy.

Several other statistics suggest that H.S.I. is pursuing cases that are making less impact. For instance, while the agency made significantly more criminal arrests this year, the number of people indicted stayed roughly flat. Agents also opened many fewer “significant cases” — such as those into global crime syndicates like drug cartels — than they had the previous year, according to the data. And despite the jump in human trafficking arrests, agents reported assisting 20 percent fewer victims.

“When you focus the agency on immigration enforcement, you necessarily lose the ability to combat more serious threats,” said John Tobon, a former senior official at H.S.I. “Strategically, you’re diverting resources from long-term investigations combating transnational criminal organizations.”

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Other federal agencies that combat drug and weapons smuggling have also devoted resources to the immigration crackdown. The F.B.I., the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have reassigned thousands of agents to help arrest undocumented immigrants, according to documents reviewed by The Times….

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This dog would NOT surprised to find out that ‘Feds’ reassigned to the push on immigration are NOT very happy with things either…..

As with just about ALL things with Trump?

This whole thing will play itself out in good time….

There is simply NO way Miller& Co can get Millions of undocumented people found and exported out America …

We want the criminal’s gone…

Not mothers , fathers and kids that have been here fro years snatched out of hearing courts trying to do the right thing….