The Intercept: FBI Redirected a Quarter of Staff to Target Immigrants Under Trump’s Deportation Push
Akela Lacy for The Intercept reports that
"[t]he Federal Bureau of Investigation multiplied the number of employees assigned to immigration by a factor of 23 in the first nine months of the second Trump administration . . . . There were 279 FBI personnel working on `immigration-related matters' before Trump took office in January 2025 . . . . By September, that number had ballooned to more than 6,500."
The redeployment of FBI personnel came under the leadership of FBI Director Kash Patel.
