Donald Trump’s administration plans to spend $100 million on a fleet of intelligence analysts for a previously unreported Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit designed to radically expand the agency’s espionage and surveillance work.
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, the division responsible for arresting and deporting tens of thousands of people from the country, could hire more than 140 intelligence officers and project managers with “top secret” clearances for an “Overwatch and National Security Enforcement” unit embedded in field offices across the country.
