For those wondering how President Donald Trump is going to find the personnel to crack down on illegal immigration like he promised during the campaign, it appears he’s managed to start with the old Barack Obama standby: a pen and a phone.
And his people didn’t even need the phone, for good measure.
On Thursday, the administration’s acting Department of Homeland Security secretary, Benjamine Huffman, announced that she was issuing “a directive essential to fulfilling President Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations” — a move that would deputize law enforcement officials in four federal enforcement branches to “investigate and apprehend illegal aliens,” the media release read.
“The directive gives Department of Justice (DOJ) law enforcement officials in the U.S. Marshals, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons authority to investigate and apprehend illegal aliens,” the media release read.