The Trump administration is rapidly repurposing law enforcement agencies to focus on what President Donald Trump called “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”
But while the American public sees a ballooning security force raiding offices and restaurants, recently departed government officials see something else: a political takeover of the Department of Justice by the Department of Homeland Security that is already draining resources from crucial security work.
“DHS is taking over DOJ. We’re allowing people with access to run rampant and treat what were quasi-independent institutions as arms of the policy staff of the White House,” one former high-ranking FBI official told NOTUS.