Well, only the extremely stupid (AOC level) ever thought that the department of homeland security would not be used for this when it was first proposed.
There was thread after thread here at Free Republic dissecting the way the department was to be organized. All those who said this would happen have been completely validated.
Yes indeed. We need to be very careful when expanding government power because it’s “our” side-the other side always, always gets its turn to use it. It’s just about a hallucination to consider rolling back government power these days.
Everyone here had such a woody for George W. Bush that we were happy to overlook such obvious unintended consequences while branding as “pot smoking liberaltarians” anyone who brought them up.