FBI Ordered to Let ICE Investigate Itself when Things Turn Deadly, Report Alleges
The reported shift would leave Homeland Security Investigations to review some assault claims, while the Justice Department says FBI policy has not changed.
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The FBI was instructed to refer investigations into attacks on immigration agents to a division of ICE itself. DOJ and DHS deny change. What it means for Latino communities.
Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security agents implicated in violent encounters, according to people briefed on the decision. If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents, as the Trump administrati…
The FBI will stop investigating cases involving immigration agents, which would become the responsibility of an agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the midst of the anti-immigrant offensive of the Donald Trump government. This has been revealed by internal documents to which The New York Times has had access. The change raises more doubts than already existed about the transparency and impartiality of investigations into cases…
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