Time for another entry in the continuing saga of the U.S. government being reassigned to work on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
In the most recent development, hundreds of Department of Homeland Security employees in jobs unrelated to immigration have been ordered to transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol, and the Federal Protective Service.
You might not be as familiar with the last one, which protects federal buildings. That might sound a bit sleepier than working for ICE or CBP, but not these days.
Earlier this week, FPS personnel received a memo from DHS senior officials 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?
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