I'm assuming there will be less arrests, does that mean crime rates will go up? More cases will go unsolved?
With half of the DEA now focused on immigration, will that result in a flood of drugs coming into the US and a drop in prices?
No agency tasked with alarm-based enforcement (ex: War on *) will ever silence the alarm. After the need (actual or otherwise) is passed, numbers are massaged and the original mandate is redefined into an expanded scope.
That's how it's been with past, more constitutional administrations. What we've seen recently is that national threats are crafted so that enemies of the admin are targeted.
For any excess capacity of force that ICE may have, that's where I expect to see it directed.
Marshferm•3mo ago
“This diversion is not a small part of many of these agencies. It includes one in five US marshals (650 of 3,892), one in five FBI agents (2,840 of 13,700), half of DEA agents (2,181 of 4,620), over two-thirds of the ATF (1,778 of 2,572), and nearly 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations (6,198 of 7,100).”
WarOnPrivacy•3mo ago
Marshferm•3mo ago
WarOnPrivacy•3mo ago
That's an unfortunate implication. It hints that the holder is making assumptions without understanding the critical, nation-changing facets in play.
Kavanaugh's patently false characterization of these encounters are an important handle to the unethical SCotUS decisions that are key and core to these atrocities.
An ethical SCotUS would be continually thwarting the Whitehouse instead of enabling and empowering it. The SCotUS was truly the last bastion against degrading unconstitutional forces but it is captured and lost.
Marshferm•3mo ago
slim•3mo ago