Trump to DHS: fork over records on border barriers, surveillance

Posted by | January 3, 2017 20:45 | Filed under: Politics

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WASHINGTON – In a wide-ranging request for documents and analysis, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team asked the Department of Homeland Security last month to assess all assets available for border wall and barrier construction.

The team also asked about the department’s capacity for expanding immigrant detention and about an aerial surveillance program that was scaled back by the Obama administration but remains popular with immigration hardliners. And it asked whether federal workers have altered biographic information kept by the department about immigrants out of concern for their civil liberties.

The requests were made in a Dec. 5 meeting between Trump’s transition team and Department of Homeland Security officials, according to an internal agency memo reviewed by Reuters. The document offers a glimpse into the president-elect’s strategy for securing the U.S. borders and reversing polices put in place by the Obama administration.

Trump’s transition team did not comment in response to Reuters inquiries. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection declined to comment.


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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

6 responses to Trump to DHS: fork over records on border barriers, surveillance

  1. Suzanne McFly January 3rd, 2017 at 22:29

    Maybe this is what pence has promised to do for rump as long as he gets to control all the other policies.

  2. amersham1046 January 3rd, 2017 at 22:43

    Could expect about 500 pages of docs minimum, then one of his brand new flunkies has to condense it down to language he can understand and be able to tweet how the problem will be solved

  3. William January 4th, 2017 at 00:28

    Citizens of the US to Trump https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/202c80ee29cba9f3817ff9111fbd057b7fe425f684a42436250315e88651a5c4.jpg . Hand over your taxes you insipid turd-waffle.

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      He meant erection, not election….

  4. Willys41 January 4th, 2017 at 13:20

    The way the Reichfuhrer talks to the intel people he’s likely to be hearing a lot of, “Yeah, we’re looking that up right now. Let you know when we find it.”

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