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FBI No Longer Willing to Cosplay Nice with ICE [1]
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Date: 2025-06-25
One somewhat unexpected ‘benefit’ of Trump’s hopefully short-lived attack on Iran is that the FBI has now had a serious wake-up call regarding national security here in the good old USA, and as a result is dramatically curtailing its previous cooperation with ICE about rounding up mostly harmless undocumented immigrants just to drive up deportation numbers under DHS to satisfy the likes of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller. From the Daily Beast:
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s push to have the FBI assist in the Trump administration’s migrant crackdown has been put on ice. Instead of going on immigration raids, sources told Fox News and NBC News that the majority of FBI agents on immigration duty are now returning to traditional roles to thwart possible threats from Iran and its proxies. The pivot back to counterterrorism will place FBI agents in a more traditional role. It comes a month after Miller mandated ICE make at least 3,000 migrant arrests a day in a heated meeting at its D.C. headquarters. NBC reported at the time that 2,000 agents from the FBI, DEA, and the Marshals Service were ordered to embed with ICE to boost arrest numbers. Many of those agents are now being pulled back to their day jobs. “Guess they are realizing this whole national security thing is important, after all,” a source with direct knowledge of the matter told NBC. ... ABC News reported that many of the agents who were briefly ordered to work with ICE had been pulled from monitoring “counterterrorism and cyber issues.” Sources told the network that the FBI’s recall of a “couple thousand agents” is a direct result of the U.S. bombing of Iran, which has raised fears of retaliation stateside.
And as the BBC notes that’s probably a very good thing, with even ICE somewhat belatedly starting to focus on more appropriate targets:
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