Agency that handles green cards and citizenship to hire armed agents who can make arrests
The Trump administration announced Thursday that the agency that assesses whether immigrants should be granted green cards and citizenship will add its own law enforcement agents who can carry firearms and make arrests.
The move is a major change for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency that has been kept separate from immigration arrests and enforcing deportations. USCIS assesses applications and interviews immigrants seeking to legally remain in the country by getting green cards, becoming naturalized citizens or being approved for humanitarian programs.
USCIS said in a statement Thursday that under the new rule, it will be authorized to add “special agents” who “will be empowered to investigate, arrest, and present for prosecution those who violate America’s immigration laws.” The final rule by the Trump administration will be effective 30 days from its publication, it said.
In the rule, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem grants the agency the right to hire agents who can make arrests, carry firearms, execute search and arrest warrants and who will have “other powers standard for federal law enforcement,” USCIS said in the statement.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uscis-hire-special-agents-trump-admin-us-citizenship-immigration-rcna229076
This is what happens when you don't deal with the problem and "look forward".
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