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REPORT: Rogue FBI Agents ‘Opting Out’ Of Deportation Raids, Leaving ICE ‘Stranded’
Trending Politics ^ | April 18, 2025 | Mark Steffen

Posted on 04/18/2025 9:40:11 AM PDT by Red Badger

Rogue agents within the Federal Bureau of Investigation are reportedly chafing at being asked to participate in arresting illegal immigrants, a slight that’s leaving immigration agents “stranded” in the field without backup during dangerous raids.

A report by “War Room” correspondent Natalie Winters describes how career bureaucrats are bucking calls from Director Kash Patel to jump on board with cross-agency task forces intent on removing dangerous undocumented criminals from America’s streets. According to FBI whistleblower Steve Friend, concern is growing about a cohort of “certain rogue agents” who appear to be making excuses for why their field offices are unavailable during critical assignments.

“Particularly [agents] at the supervisor and management level are really working to obstruct the deportation, the mass deportation agenda,” Winters told host Steve Bannon.

Those senior agents are giving their subordinates the decision to “opt out” of certain deportation raids, she went on, “if they do not align with their personal or political beliefs.” Some of these individuals sit at the level of Squad Supervisor or Field Office Special Agent in Charge level.

“In at least two cases, Steve was relaying to me how a lot of these sort of left-wing FBI [agents], which [are] more concentrated at the management level or sort of supervisory roles… they were comparing them to Nazis trying to create a culture whereby these agents wouldn’t necessarily want to participate in these raids to begin with,” she revealed.

A city-by-city justification has been offered to agents as well, Winters explained, describing out senior leaders would encourage ambivalent agents to opt out of lower-profile raids when fewer staffers were required.

Dan Bongino, President Donald Trump’s selection to serve as Patel’s deputy, recently visited the FBI’s Phoenix office to participate in an immigration raid with ICE, Winters retold.

While there, “supervisors in these offices said ‘that’s not going to happen’ and actually ceased all deportation raid activities that day to have everyone in the office meet with Bongino.”

In another instance, a squad supervisor was asked in a text thread why a cohort of FBI agents was late in arriving to an imminent ICE raid.

“This supervisor said ‘no, we’re actually not’ and left ICE stranded without the FBI support staff,” Winter said.

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Patel, a staunch supporter of the President’s mission to carry out mass deportations, has been tasked with reforming an FBI culture that for decades has operated with a sense of autonomy outside the executive branch. Its agents were central in carrying out an August 2022 raid at Mar-a-Lago in search of classified documents in Trump’s possession, and the Republican hasn’t let the Bureau’s bureaucrats forget it.

Similarly, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House border czar Tom Homan have probed the FBI for leaks on pending raids, which they said endangered the lives of agents in the field. Both claimed to have found the source of several of those leaks and said those responsible would be fired and face criminal prosecution if possible

“The FBI is so corrupt,” Noem said at the time. “We will work with any and every agency to stop leaks and prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bongino; doj; fbi; fbisedition; ice; joseaperez; joseperez; patel; phoenixfbi; rogues; sacjoseperez
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1 posted on 04/18/2025 9:40:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

FIRE THEM on the spot.


2 posted on 04/18/2025 9:40:59 AM PDT by Singermom
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To: Red Badger

It looks as if it may be time to reduce the size of the FBI a bit.


3 posted on 04/18/2025 9:41:27 AM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: Red Badger

Those IRS trainees looked like pretty sharp operators in the videos I saw. Hire them.


4 posted on 04/18/2025 9:42:04 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Red Badger

The problems have been identified, now it is time to simply fire them. If they want to be conscientious objectors, they can do it on their own dime on the street.


5 posted on 04/18/2025 9:42:24 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: Red Badger

I guess they opted out of next week’s paycheck


6 posted on 04/18/2025 9:43:26 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: Red Badger
Let's see.....law enforcement gets to decide which assignments they participate in?

Aww...school shootings? Too dangerous boss, no thanks.......

7 posted on 04/18/2025 9:44:34 AM PDT by G Larry (Its RACIST to impose slave wages on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing cheap ILLEGAL labor)
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To: Singermom

Yes. As soon as they begin to act this way, they have shown their true faces. Weed them out!
There will likely be an agent shortage temporarily due to this needed purging, but it must be done.

Those kinds of agents should not be receiving a full pension either, because they were derelict, negligent in their duties.


8 posted on 04/18/2025 9:46:00 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: wildcard_redneck

If I had to bet I would wager they will still be there 3 months from now.


9 posted on 04/18/2025 9:47:13 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Red Badger
"What?! Storm the beaches of Normandy on June 6 of 1944?! Sorry! I was planning on washing my socks that day!"

/disgust

Regards,

10 posted on 04/18/2025 9:48:19 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Red Badger

Who was it that kept saying the mantra “the problem at the FBI is not the rank and file” ?

Abolish the whole thing. Get rid of it.


11 posted on 04/18/2025 9:48:23 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: Singermom

public impression seems to be that over 80 percent of the FBI’s rank and file are hardened leftists/globalists... and over 96 percent of leadership...

This is NOT JUST A FEW BAD APPLES.


12 posted on 04/18/2025 9:48:23 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10-10-10-10)
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To: Singermom

One might think they need to be “Kashed Out”.


13 posted on 04/18/2025 9:48:28 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: Singermom

I think that would necessitate Chis Wray actually doing something. Oh wait, I’m sorry, didn’t Wray get replaced? Whatever, same difference.


14 posted on 04/18/2025 9:48:39 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 36 monthsas)
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To: Red Badger

Opt them out of their jobs.


15 posted on 04/18/2025 9:49:12 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Red Badger

I’ll volunteer. I have my own equipment, and they can keep the salary.


16 posted on 04/18/2025 9:50:56 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: gibsonguy

Sad but true. At least this time around it looks like Trump has finally gained real control of the federal bureaucracy. He will need to keep firing people all the way through to the end of his term.


17 posted on 04/18/2025 9:51:59 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: Red Badger

The opted in on raids a Mar-A -Lago in Melania’s drawers and arresting J’s over 65. They are worthless.


18 posted on 04/18/2025 9:52:05 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Red Badger

Fire them.


19 posted on 04/18/2025 9:53:42 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Red Badger
Disappear their jobs.

That's the word of the week, right? Disappear?

20 posted on 04/18/2025 9:54:36 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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