The FBI ordered its agents to stop investigating ICE confrontations.
The written order went out Thursday, The New York Times reports, though the Justice Department denies it. The FBI’s role had already shrunk to one question: was the agent attacked before he fired? When ICE killed men in Houston and Maine this month, answering that question was still the FBI’s job. Now it belongs to investigators inside ICE.
Border czar Tom Homan went on television Sunday and said of the dead men, “They would be alive today if they simply complied.” That is the arrangement now. Your obligation to obey is absolute, and their killings are reviewed by their colleagues.
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