The Trump administration is gutting real public safety efforts to fund their mass deportation agenda. Rather than focusing on drug traffickers, terrorist plots, and child predators endangering our communities, the administration is pulling federal agents off critical cases to chase longtime residents with clean records.
From January to June 2025, immigration detentions of people with no criminal history skyrocketed by over 1,200%. Today, 70% of those held in ICE custody have no convictions.
Even local police departments are being forced into the fray. The expanded partnership between ICE and local law enforcement diverts already-stretched departments from tackling local crime. Plus, the administration’s cuts to federal safety grants for cities pulled funds for 50 police officers in Chicago alone.
The result? Communities grow less safe as Trump abuses law enforcement for political gain. While our nation desperately needs unity, his cruel mass deportation campaign continues to divide our country and threaten community safety.
Trump’s deportation agenda is pulling agents off the frontlines of public safety:
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF): 80% of the agency’s 2,500 agents have been reassigned from investigating gun trafficking, bombings, and arson to immigration enforcement.
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA): Roughly 25% of operations have shifted from targeting drug cartels and fentanyl traffickers to carrying out immigration raids.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Agents now spend one-third of their time on immigration cases, while white-collar crime and violent crime investigations take a backseat.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): 20% of staff eliminated and first responder training halted while employees are reassigned to support ICE operations
- Federal Prosecutors: U.S. Attorneys in all 93 districts are being ordered to shift staff to border enforcement.
- In Detroit alone, federal prosecutors who typically handle financial fraud, corruption, and violent crime cases are now spending their time processing immigration violations that have traditionally been managed through administrative proceedings.
