Exclusive: Customs and Border Protection Gains an Extra Layer of Secrecy

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Source: the nation



By gaining a “security agency” designation, the border police can further shield themselves from public view.

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Under President Trump, US immigration authorities have pushed for extraordinary privileges and increased secrecy from the public.

On Friday, the Trump administration quietly designated the entire Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, which polices US borders, as a “Security Agency,” according to an internal memo obtained by The Nation. This follows repeated attempts by federal immigration authorities to dramatically expand their reach in recent years.

The memo, which was signed by CBP’s Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan and dated January 31, places CBP under the same designation as highly secretive intelligence and law enforcement agencies like the FBI and Secret Service. This grants CBP greater secrecy by exempting certain records from disclosure to the public.


The memo states: “I am pleased to announce CBP has been designated as a Security Agency under Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) official Data Release Policy, effective immediately. Previously, only frontline law enforcement, investigative, or intelligence positions held this designation. This policy change now protects all CBP employee names from subsequent responses to Freedom of Information Act requests or other public disclosures for CGP employee data.”

CBP did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Irvin McCullough, national security analyst with the Government Accountability Project, warned that the designation would result in less transparency for CBP.....

Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cbp-security-agency/

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Every hour it gets worse. damn

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[ArizonaLib]

1. Secret Police

We are now Germany in the 1930's. "Papers, please..."

[EndlessWire]

7. Yep n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Who wants to travel to either the USA or China these days?

[riversedge]

3. Neglecting children in their custody is top secret?.....................

I imagine it will cover any information.






Neglecting children in their custody is top secret?

Refusing to give children a mattress to sleep on is somehow classified?

CBP has been given protection from FOIA requests by Trump

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Protect the children instead!

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[bucolic_frolic]

4. Stasi

[Ilsa]

5. Destroying our government in only three years.

Imagine what he could do with eight.

[Leghorn21]

6. CBP and ICE do what they want, when they want, to whomever they want

yep
It’s unbearable, all these goons who answer to no one

[PatrickforO]

8. More than a few of the people I speak to, including myself, are genuinely and justifiably

concerned that Trump and his white supremacists might usher in a new Holocaust.

And yeah, this new move is right along those lines.

These people really ARE Nazis. Old school brownshirts, ready to hit the streets with their stahl helms and bash left wing heads. Blood in the gutters, glass in the gutters, piles of burning books, camps, cages, crematoria.

There is nothing good about Donald Trump.

NOTHING.

[They_Live]

9. Nazis

[burrowowl]

10. Kick!

[Collimator]

11. No question--

Trump has himself a little SS division. This is probably because he knows that the professionals at the FBI and CIA don't respect him and resist doing his bidding.