Posted on 09/04/2025 10:08:22 AM PDT by DFG
The Trump administration announced Thursday that the agency that assesses whether immigrants should be granted green cards and citizenship will add its own law enforcement agents who can carry firearms and make arrests.
The move is a major change for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency that has been kept separate from immigration arrests and enforcing deportations. USCIS assesses applications and interviews immigrants seeking to legally remain in the country by getting green cards, becoming naturalized citizens or being approved for humanitarian programs.
USCIS said in a statement Thursday that under the new rule, it will be authorized to add “special agents” who “will be empowered to investigate, arrest, and present for prosecution those who violate America’s immigration laws.” The final rule by the Trump administration will be effective 30 days from its publication, it said.
In the rule, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem grants the agency the right to hire agents who can make arrests, carry firearms, execute search and arrest warrants and who will have “other powers standard for federal law enforcement,” USCIS said in the statement.
“USCIS has always been an enforcement agency. By upholding the integrity of our immigration system, we enforce the laws of this nation,” USCIS Director Joseph Edlow said in the statement. “This historic moment will better address immigration crimes, hold those that perpetrate immigration fraud accountable, and act as a force multiplier for DHS and our federal law enforcement partners, including the Joint Terrorism Task Force.”
The agency said in its statement that “USCIS will be able to more efficiently clear its backlogs of aliens who seek to exploit our immigration system through fraud, prosecute them, and remove them from the country.”
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The obvious question, why was this not ALWAYS the case!
good policy. also good politics.
He’s forced democrats to hate electric vehicles, hate free speech, love big pharma, and the federal reseve and now, having to stand up for the 2nd amendment. Oh, and love Dick Cheney/Liz Cheney.
Trump is twisting them into pretzels.
We have plenty of armed feds already. Just sayin’.
I agree. For every INS enforcement agent we should disarm one from another agency starting with the IRS and the ATF.
Good idea it’s been recorded that green cards have been bought some for $1,000.
The love of money is mightier then honor for some.
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