If you’ve been watching reportage and viral videos of immigration raids over the last six months, you’ll remember that often there will be law enforcement officers or agents with uniforms that simply say “DHS Police.”
Not Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Patrol, just “DHS Police.”
As far as I know, there is no such agency under DHS.
DHS employs some 80,000 law enforcement officers spread across nine agencies and offices.
So I think that the uniforms just provide a general designation that these are law enforcement officers from within the Department of Homeland Security.
But what was clear from DHS’s creation was that that power could all be directed and concentrated toward some corrupt or illegitimate purpose.
And that, among many other things, is what we’ve seen over the last year. »