The branch of the Department of Homeland Security that handles transnational criminal investigations is rebranding itself in the hopes that major Democratic-controlled cities will cooperate with it.
The Department of Homeland Security’s investigative branch, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), is rebranding and scrubbing agents’ contact information of connections to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under which HSI technically exists. HSI officials have complained that the politics connected to ICE have made their jobs increasingly difficult in areas with “sanctuary city” laws, according to The Washington Post.
“HSI’s ‘independent branding’ will allow its agents ‘to work without the undue toxicity that in some places comes with the ICE moniker,’” according to the Post. “They’ll still be part of ICE, just like the Marines are part of the Department…
