An “outraged” Border Patrol official has leaked files exposing numerous secret Trump administration efforts to spy on both migrants and American citizens, and to falsely portray every single person who enters the United States without authorization as a terrorist or drug trafficker, a US investigative journalist revealed Wednesday.
The disaffected Border Patrol official gave journalist Ken Klippenstein documents showing “the dizzying scope” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. These range from previously undisclosed code names of secret ICE missions to an explanation that a key objective of a nationwide campaign called Operation Abracadabra is “tying every individual who crosses the border illegally to a foreign terrorist organization [or a] transnational criminal organization.”
A document on another operation—code-named Benchwarmer—reveals that, in an effort aimeda at “collecting information not normally gained” during standard interrogations, “plainclothes agents have been embedded in transport vans, sally ports, processing areas, and detention cells to gather important tactical intelligence and or information.”
Klippenstein wrote that opposition to ICE’s actions “has spread throughout the Department of Homeland Security” in the wake of last week’s killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. Articles of impeachment filed Wednesday by Democratic members of Congress against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem note how...
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