Exclusive: Trump team seeks agency records on border barriers, surveillance
Source: Reuters
In a wide-ranging request for documents and analysis, President-elect Donald Trump's transition team asked the Department of Homeland Security last month to assess all assets available for border wall and barrier construction.
The team also asked about the department's capacity for expanding immigrant detention and about an aerial surveillance program that was scaled back by the Obama administration but remains popular with immigration hardliners. And it asked whether federal workers have altered biographic information kept by the department about immigrants out of concern for their civil liberties.
The requests were made in a Dec. 5 meeting between Trump's transition team and Department of Homeland Security officials, according to an internal agency memo reviewed by Reuters. The document offers a glimpse into the president-elect's strategy for securing the U.S. borders and reversing polices put in place by the Obama administration.
Trump's transition team did not comment in response to Reuters inquiries. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection declined to comment.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-border-trump-exclusive-idUSKBN14N0TY
I'm really seeing signs of WW3 with this administration.
Of course, T didn't even want to attend the security briefings offered just a little bit ago...
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Take your money OUT of your bank now, or wherever you have it.!!!
that "money", the leafy, greeny cashy kind will be worth anything either? Better get some precious metals and food stocked up.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)When do we start hearing of the terror threat to the south? Somehow I don't see ISIS or Al Qaeda sprouting in Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, or Piedras Negras.
independentpiney
(1,510 posts)to guide isis fighters into the the US and that Mexican cartels and jihadist groups are working together. So we should start hearing that in the next few months.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/politics/kfile-michael-flynn-arabic-signs-on-border/
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)erratic everything because he's just a loose collection of extreme interests
with no central brain
riversedge
(70,239 posts)make their own assessments.
underpants
(182,824 posts)The DoJ is going to be another shock to them. He won't be able to use lawsuits or the threat of a suit as he has his whole life.