Several deportation raids in the past month have been compromised by unidentified federal officials who have leaked information about the raids to the press. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that the leakers have been identified and would be dismissed. A few leakers have been found by me. Noem said in an interview, “We are still getting more.” “They’ll lose their jobs,” she continued. It will have consequences.
The DHS secretary reminded the public, “They are endangering the lives of law enforcement when they leak information to the press in an attempt to blow one up.” “She and her team have been investigating and questioning everybody who might have had access to the leaked material in an effort to uncover the “leakers,” she stated. Along with using every “tool” and “every tactic that we have,” they have also examined emails and other electronic correspondence and conducted polygraph tests.
Noem remarked, “It’s amazing how these bureaucrats who wish to stop the efforts we’re making to ensure American safety will sell each other out if it’s only to protect themselves.” “Don’t worry, I’m doing everything I can to find these leakers and get rid of them so that our agents and law enforcement officers can do their work safely,” she said.
The day after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began preparing for deportation operations, and last month, details of planned raids were leaked to the public. The ICE operation that was supposed to take place in Chicago had to be postponed when the raid was reported in The Wall Street Journal. Former ICE chief and border czar Tom Homan personally oversaw deportation operations in Chicago the following week.
Aurora, Colorado, just north of Denver, saw another ICE operation targeting at least 100 members of the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TDA). However, only one TDA member was eventually arrested, and the gang was immediately told about the raid. Additionally, press sources threatened an ICE raid in Los Angeles, the headquarters of the notoriously dangerous Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang. Both Homan and Noem at the time speculated that the problem could be the result of dishonest FBI agents.
“The FBI is so corrupt,” Noem declared. Working with all relevant authorities, we will stop leaks and prosecute these corrupt deep state agents to the highest degree of the law. Since “some of the information we’re receiving tends to lead towards the FBI,” Homan also admitted that the FBI was the source of the leak.
Homan and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi have already said that even though Noem promised to terminate those responsible for the disclosures on Monday, criminal prosecutions might be required. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has “opened up a criminal investigation, and they have promised that not only will this person lose their job and their pension, they will go to jail,” according to Homan’s account after the leaks. “We will identify you and pursue you if you leaked it,” Bondi declared, promising to bring charges against those responsible.
“Those who leaked details of ICE raids should be prosecuted,” said Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Centre at the Heritage Foundation, in an interview with The Washington Stand. She explained, “They are obstructing justice, which is a violation of 18 U.S.C. sec. 1512(c)(2) and (k), and they are impairing a federal proceeding, which is a violation of 18 U.S.C. sections 2 and 1505.”
Ries continued by saying that because they haven’t faced consequences in a while, leakers and doxers view their obstruction as low risk, high reward. In order to curb the behaviour, we must set some highly visible instances. It is not enough to fire them, because they will quickly be rehired by communist organisations.
According to Ries, they should be “prosecuted, fired, have their security clearance revoked, have any federal retirement revoked, and be barred from future government employment, grants, and contracts.”
