Over a Dozen ICE Agents Sign Letter To Eliminate Agency

Over a Dozen ICE Agents Sign Letter To Eliminate Agency At least 19 agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed the letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. They have asked her to dissolve the agency and move their work to another bureau. The agents said the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration was preventing them from carrying out the agency’s other duties. “HSI’s investigations have been perceived as targeting undocumented aliens, instead of the transnational criminal organizations that facilitate cross border crimes impacting our communities and national security.” “Many jurisdictions continue to refuse to work with HSI because of a perceived linkage to the politics of civil immigration.” Calls to abolish the agency have grown in the wake of Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. Trump’s administration faced outrage and backlash for separating immigrant children from their parents at the Mexican border. President Trump ended the separation policy with an executive order last week.