report, it's a letter signed by
19 top criminal investigation
agents at i.c.e., at immigration
and customs enforcement.
there are only 26 of these
agents in the whole country.
19 of them are on this letter.
the job of these elite agents is
to oversee the investigations
into serious matters like
threats to national security and
organized crime and human
trafficking.
these senior agents have written
this letter to the homeland
security secretary kirstjen
nielsen asking for their part of
i.c.e. to be divorced from the
rest of i.c.e. because being
associated with the
administration's hard-line
immigration policies is making
it harder for them to do their
important national security
work, quote, our investigative
independence is unnecessarily
impacted by the political nature
of civil immigration
enforcement.
many jurisdictions continue to
refuse to work with us because
of a perceived linkage to the
politics of civil immigration.
these are not former i.c.e.
agents, not low level...