The New York Times stunned Americans on Sunday when it revealed a new FBI directive regarding ICE agents — and people who accuse them of violence.
Federal agents across the nation received instructions last week not to investigate confrontations with immigration agents, sources told Times reporters.
“FBI managers around the country received a written notice informing them of the change on Thursday...The same day, some ICE agents around the country were notified by their F.B.I. counterparts,” Aleaziz and Barrett wrote.
“If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents, as the Trump administration draws mounting criticism over killings at the hands of federal officers.”
The directive arrived after ICE agents fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford — and as protests mount nationwide in North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, and of course, Texas and Maine.
