https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/...134228993?s=19The Trump administration quietly classified ICE as a "security agency" in order to block all employee information from public disclosure under FOIA, per internal ICE memo leaked to me.
This includes ICE employees' names, job titles, salary, and more:
https://t.co/j2cLiu4aF8 https://t.co/VNyOrHLiVt
Have not seen much news on this. In the link is a pic of a memo or directive from ICE.
So this goes to all employees not just field agents.On June 11, the administration classified ICE as a “Security Agency,” according to a memo signed by Albence and dated June 26. This new designation puts ICE employees in the same category as high-level intelligence officials, and blocks from disclosure information that is typically public, such as name, job title, and salary. The memo was provided to The Nation by an ICE official on condition of anonym
This pretty makes ICE have incredible protection from immunity from the law.
Trump's defense is of course his police force, which no doubt he using as a hammer is under threat. So it is to keep the morale of employees of working is secrecy for ICE.
The problem is other agencies don't have this, the IRS for one.