State Department Agents Are Now Working With ICE on Immigration

The DSS employee says that it is common to record all activities as part of a DSS survey, but so far, the application of immigration has never been a category that could be recorded in the system.

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A former DSS agent, who worked in one of the American Department of the State offices and spoke of the condition of anonymity to protect their privacy, said that DSS agents based in the United States had never had the power to apply immigration before the second Trump administration. If DSS worked with the DHS, it would be because “there is a link in our surveys,” said the former agent.

DSS agents, adds the source, would have no execution experience on administrative mandates, the type of mandates that allow a person to be arrested for violation of immigration. “We know what to do for an arrest warrant, all the measures we take and all this,” they say. “We do not make administrative mandates, we make criminal mandates.”

Last week, the New York Times said that the DSS officers participated in the Federal Take of Washington, DC, including in at least one arrest. This also seems to have been an assignment outside their mandate.

As part of the Trump administration, the State Department underwent a major overhaul. In May, the State Department informed the Congress that he intended to create a remigration position as “center for immigration problems and monitoring of repatriation”. The concept of remigration is an extreme right plan which calls for immigrants and minorities to be expelled from Western countries. Last month, some 1,350 employees from the State Department received dismissal notices, as the Trump administration said it aims to reduce 15% of the department staff.

The DSS agent suspects that the participation and documentation of efforts for the application of immigration could allow the agency to demonstrate its value in the execution of the president’s agenda and allow it to protect part of its budget.

“It certainly only started after Trump took office,” they say.

The employee of the DSS, who has worked in other law enforcement agencies, says that “DSS agents are the least trained” and is worried that “poorly trained agents now apply the Immigration and Phabies Civil Rights Act, and they probably do not know.”