The Trump administration leads more FBI, drugs and rifles to immigration enforcement, while in the coming days it will take a hard time on more than two dozen American cities, according to five people who are familiar with the directive.
Officials of the Ministry of Justice have decided that around 2,000 of their federal agents – of the drug Enforcement Administration; the Alcohol, Tobacco Office, firearms and explosives; And the US Marshals Service – will be recruited to help the Ministry of Interior Security find and arrest immigrants without papers for the rest of the year, these people said. They spoke about the condition of anonymity to describe the efforts that still have to be announced.
The effort would indicate a sharp escalation in the efforts of the administration to implement a crucial element of President Trump’s agenda and would be a noticeable shift in the typical work of the Ministry of Justice, in particular the FBI that distracts the means of the Ministry of Justice, also to concentrate on other shifting, also to disguising on other shifting, also shut off on immigration, also shut off on immigration, Priorities would influence, such as investigating financial crimes or corruption.
Federal Agents from the Ministry of Justice have already helped immigration agents in American cities.
The new effort would considerably expand that work and add more staff, people said. Legal enforcement officials has been told that in every city subject to the new decision, FBI agents must declare 45 percent of the contingent of the Ministry of Justice, they said.
The proposal comes when the Trump government has recalled countless species of white collar crime examinations, including foreign corruption, compliance with anti-money laundering rules in the cryptocurrency industry and illegal foreign lobbying of American officials.
The plan would affect 25 American cities and their suburbs. In the New York City region, for example, 193 federal agents from the Ministry of Justice would be allocated to work on immigration cases, and 86 of them would be FBI agents, people said.
New York is the largest field office in the FBI, with nearly 1,000 agents when they are fully staffed. But the current and former officials said that the transfer of approximately 8 percent of the workforce to be able to handle immigration cases, would disrupt other agency investigations and possibly influence cases of white collar.
That percentage would be even higher in Los Angeles, which has a smaller number of FBI agents, and where the administration suggested to allocate the agents of 207 Ministry of Justice to immigration work for the rest of the year.
“This Ministry of Justice will continue to support immigration enforcement operations,” said a spokesperson for the department.
The directive proposes an FBI that plays an increasing role in the deportation efforts of the Trump government. The FBI has already been assigned other tasks with regard to enforcement of immigration, including investigating the place of residence and conditions of immigrant children.
FBI managers was asked to draw up plans to achieve the goals of the Ministry of Justice and giving answers this week, people said. The immigration work of agents is expected to walk seven days a week.
Enforcement of immigration has long been the prospect of the Ministry of Interior Security, where immigrations and customs enforcement agents perform such work. But in Mr Trump’s second term, the White House has drawn up other law enforcement agencies for those efforts.
Federal agents from the government have been deployed to help ice operations. In most circumstances, federal agents act as ‘Force Multipliers’, whereby the scene is guaranteed for immigration enforcement officers aimed at immigrants without papers. Immigration arrests in communities require extensive resources and ICE has a limited number of officers.
Mr. Trump has requested more resources for enforcement. On Friday he called on DHS to receive 20,000 more officers to help with the performance.
Separately, a memo of the Ministry of Justice explained the priorities of the administration on Monday for the pursuit of fraud and other types of white collar crime. The memo reflects an earlier guideline on cryptocurrency-related studies, but offers an important new addition, which suggests that public prosecutors should close such cases quickly if they do not provide good evidence.
In order to “maximize efficiency” in the investigation of white collar, Matthew Galeotti, the head of the criminal division of the Ministry of Justice, wrote, “prosecutors have to move quickly to investigate and bring it into account.”
“That means,” he added, “that my office will work closely with the relevant sections to keep track of investigations and to ensure that they do not linger and are closed quickly.”
William K. Rashbaum contributed reporting.
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